The lurid revelations from the Senate Ethics Committee’s report on John Ensign’s alleged cover-up of an extramarital affair …
John Ensign
John Ensign’s Raw Goodbye
About half way through his farewell speech on the Senate floor Monday afternoon, Senator John Ensign’s words turned personal. Though it likely made his colleagues wince, the Nevada Republican’s address was a rare moment of raw honesty on the Hill. Ensign, once a rumored candidate for President, will leave the Senate on Tuesday shamed by …
Sen. Ensign to Resign
In the midst of an ethics probe, beleaguered Republican Sen. John Ensign of Nevada announced Thursday that he will resign his office, effective May 3.
Ensign Signs Off
Senator John Ensign is expected to announce in the next hour or so that he will not be seeking a third term in 2012. The Nevada Republican has been battling for his political life since copping to an affair with a former staffer and the wife of one of his closest friends. Ensign had been trailing GOP Rep. Dean Heller, who was widely …
Is John Ensign a Political Zombie And He Just Doesn’t Know It?
A year ago most reporters were writing John Ensign’s political obituary. The Nevada senator had admitted to an affair with a longtime staffer and was under investigation by the feds for payments his parents made to the staffer’s husband to allegedly keep him quiet. Many in Nevada wondered why Ensign didn’t step aside and allow a …
Herb Caen, John Ensign and Disappearing Voices Of Our Cities
I grew up in San Francisco on Herb Caen. Even before I turned 12, before I cared anything about local politics or society, I liked the guy. He was funny. He wrote short. He wrote clearly. He painted my city. One of San Francisco’s great current writers, Richard Rodriguez, recently wrote an homage to Caen and the demise of local …
Speaking of Political Sex Scandals
No tickling here that we know of, but an important reminder that there is another member, Republican Senator John Ensign of Nevada, who is under investigation — criminal investigation — for his alleged lucrative attempts to silence the husband of the staffer he was having an affair with, as Eric Litchblau and Eric Lipton of the New …
What Happens in Nevada Doesn’t Seem to Stay in Nevada
Or, in Senator Ensign’s case, what happens in Washington and is sent back home to Nevada. Both Senators from the Silver State are increasingly deep political doo-doo, though for vastly different reasons. And one’s scandal may end up helping the other.