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“I can honestly say that being a United States Senator has been the honour of my life. While I stand behind my firm belief that I have not violated any law, rule, or standard of conduct of the Senate, and I have fought to prove this publicly, I will not continue to subject my family, my constituents, or the Senate to any further rounds of investigation, depositions, drawn out proceedings, or especially public hearings. For my family and me, this continued personal cost is simply too great.”


Admission of guilt, was the speech an admission of guilt to the ethics investigation? Who tipped him off? Worst than using his family as a buffer, can’t Ensign be real by saying, “It has been a pleasure to serve the people of Nevada, but I am going to retire from politics and spend more time with my family.”


The Senator is thinking about his family now after this insanity surrounding the career of key Senators in the U.S. Senate? I bet John Ensign returns to Doug Hamptons wife in the same manner Mark Sanford reunited with his soul mate after Jenny Sanford finally moved out of the house. Ensign said, “Our families were close. That closeness put me into situations which led to my inappropriate behaviour. We caused deep pain to both families and for that I am sorry.”


Darlene Ensign was at a Turkish grill near our health club on Flamingo Road. My mother asked about her. I told her, Darlene was gorgeous. In fact, she was much better looking than the photographs I have seen of Cindy Hampton. The same went for Anthony Spilotro’s wife. She was extremely attractive. Geri Rosenthal’s features mixed with her hustling attitude made Geri appear more trashy. Darlene can have any man with her athletic slim features. She can host Maria Shriver, Jenny Sanford, and Eva Longoria for Celebrity Girls Night Out in Las Vegas - Part Dean Martin Roast - Part Dancing with the Stars  - Remember ladies, the holiday is always here in the Entertainment Capital of the World. Dawn Gibbons moved to Las Vegas after giving the Governor’s Mansion back to Jim Gibbons. Ladies love Las Vegas, because it is always girls night out in Las Vegas!

California, Maria, and Arnold

Maria made Arnold’s decisions in Sacramento, California as well as filmmaking adventures in Los Angeles. Yet Arnold Schwarzenegger was more popular with Jim Gibbons without a Governor’s Mansion in Carson City to live in. Melanie Sloan’s team found that the worst Governor Gibbons violated campaign finance law by accepting illegal corporate donations. Jim assaulted that cocktail waitress in Las Vegas. He used taxpayers money to push his affair forward as he was being investigated by Congress. He lied about his tax stand. And Gibbons got malicious towards reporters when the camera caught him spending tax payers money on a wife of a former supporter while on business in Washington DC. This nearly makes me giddy. My son might have a chance at the governor’s seat by the time he graduates from high school with the way scandals grow in the dry desert wind.


Two months ago, John Ensign knew his career was over. He announced that his 2012 plans were finished. Why did Ensign have to buffer his excuse with his family? First, his family wrote the bank check as a gift. Why use your father and mother as an excuse to buffer your political career from the consequences? John Ensign is always using people. Then this speech, why did he use his family as a buffer again? What a cowardly perverted weasel.

Doors Closed in Nevada?

As I write these words, the morning wakes to May 14, 2001. Ensign’s Office Doors are closed for business. Two years ago, June 18, 2009 John Ensign’s admits that the reason the Senator directed his commented to the public about the sex scandal is because Doug Hampton, his best friend, approached Fox News outside the house. Fox didn’t know how to spin the news? Ensign’s friend screwed up. He learned quickly that not all Republicans working for Fox News wanted to support an aide upset over his wife’s sex with his best friend. Fox News supported Senator John Ensign, kept the Washington aide under wraps, and attacked the husband instead of Dear John. Wow, the media jumped on the void. All the interactions between Ensign, the friend, selling sex in Las Vegas, if Fox News didn’t want the story, other networks would run with the scandal. Reporters picked up their news in New York, three thousand miles away. I wasn’t in Washington DC either, I was here. No one wanted my story. No one wanted John Ensign’s story at Fox News. No one wanted to hear from the husband of the mistress. So I wrote the first book covering the John Ensign affair called John Ensign's Extramarital Mistress in Sin City. Reporting in Nevada : June 18, 2009

Critics in Congress

John Ensign adds insult to injury by slapping back at his supporters. He rallied them together at my health club by questioning critics, “Resign? I am not going to resign. In fact, I am raising money to run for re-election. Go 2012! Come join me in Summerlin. I have got to warn you about health care costs that will increase if Obama gets his way.” I was invited to join John membership drive. Phone calls started arriving as soon as I signed in. Robo calls automated my number into a phone database that dialed my house automatically. Robo calls aren’t only expensive. They are annoying, terribly impersonal, and a cheap telemarketing tool. I will never forgive John Ensign for infecting my home phone line with his fund raising campaign based out of his fundraiser in Summerlin. The pastries and hot tea didn’t cut it. Few showed any interested in donating. Most were the same as me, engaged in listening to what the hypocrite caught in the act had to say. His mini-convention in Summerlin was clearly aimed at the rich. Summerlin is an expensive suburb to the northwest of Las Vegas. Wealth meets nice weather with a view of Red Rock Canyon right next to Summerlin. The area not only has the best air quality in Vegas, but families love to take their children to stables with horses nearby. Bicycles race amongst the best trails on the West Coast. Still Summerlin supporters were shy to buy the services John was selling to them in Summerlin. John thought his defiance would put his enemies in a defensive position, but critics laughed at his attempt to raise money from the supporters he screwed,  “Bend over as if this is a prison aerobics class and grab your ankles as I ask you to support me with more money.” Prison officials call this a shake down. Ensign probably looked at is as passive aggressive charm aimed at paying his legal expenses. Either way, the listeners knew the government was also listening. Federal investigators had so much evidence against this Senator asking for money in a small room with washed walls that appeared cleaner than laundered money washed after a skim in the casino. John Ensign was clearly running a campaign on arrogance if not ignorance if he thought the eye in the sky didn’t catch him stealing from the dice dealer. “I will not resign. I did nothing illegal. I seek your support for my re-election in 2012.” He repeated as if he was trying to convince himself of his own innocents. Please allow me to remind the reader a lesson consisting of time. Sixty seconds combine into a minute. Sixty minutes divide into an hour. This is what was flowing through my mind as I tried to convince myself that these wasted hours were worth every minute I was taking away from my wife, child, and day in Vegas. Costco Wholesaler was minutes away. I wanted to collect pennies of the ground to buy a hot dog for $1.25. I hoped to dig through the dust of my pocket to collect $2.00 for a slice of Costco pizza. John Ensign was annoying. The attention he raised got redirected. C Street members were being investigated. C Street authors were selling books on national broadcasts. John Ensign was bringing down a house of cards within the GOP, because he had to defy a Federal investigation by coming out to shout, “I am running in 2012. I will not resign.”

Friday, 13 May 2001

Richard Nixon couldn’t escape Woodward’s Washington Post. John Ensign can’t escape Friday the 13th due to the world wide web. The Nevada Senator’s attack directed at President Bill Clinton is witnessed with the same gusto over guest what? President Clinton’s sex scandal in Washington? Sex scandal? Christian Senator from Nevada? Nixon was the American equivalent to the Soviet’s Stalin, but John Ensign’s betrayal to his party of supporters is the 2012 election equivalent to Nevada’s version of Watergate running out of Carson City. Ralston’s Watergate investigation of John Ensign turned YouTube witness to copies of confessions, bank checks issued as hush money to pay off Ensign victims. The cash trail spoke as loud as love letters placed in envelopes after being written with Senator Tom Coburn, cash payments that went unreported, bribery gifts, lobbyists receiving severance pay, and a length sex affair carried on by an evangelical Christian holding President Clinton up for impeachment hearings. John Ensign’s staff tried to surround the wagon. Political enemies were popping up across the country. Many quit. The resignation of John Ensign’s staff was the equivalent to rats jumping overboard as the ship sank. Rats are brilliant, but not paid enough to go down with the ship because the Captain decided to sail the boat into an iceberg as he slept with a staffer.