Where are all the angry tea baggers now? If they aren't in bed with their bankers, than they are in bed with their mistresses. I betcha sometimes that is the same thing. Ahhhhhhh, what a life.
Yes, indeed, just one big happy family. The New York Times has a time line and story. Republicans seem to like their 'extramarital affairs' while in office. It is probably the only way they can afford them. Why elect them and tempt them with the opportunity?
Senator’s Aid After Affair Raises Flags Over Ethics (click title to entry - thank you)
By ERIC LICHTBLAU and ERIC LIPTON
Published: October 1, 2009
WASHINGTON — Early last year, Senator John Ensign contacted a small circle of political and corporate supporters back home in Nevada — a casino designer, an airline executive, the head of a utility and several political consultants — seeking work for a close friend and top Washington aide, Douglas Hampton....
In the coming months, the senator arranged for Mr. Hampton to join a political consulting firm and lined up several donors as his lobbying clients, according to interviews, e-mail messages and other records. Mr. Ensign and his staff then repeatedly intervened on the companies’ behalf with federal agencies in Washington, often after urging from Mr. Hampton.
While the affair made national news in June, the role that Mr. Ensign played in assisting Mr. Hampton and helping the clients he represented has not been previously disclosed. Several legal experts say those activities may have violated an ethics law that bans senior aides from lobbying the Senate for a year after leaving their posts....
One big happy family living on government money. Yep.
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John Ensign's parents paid $96K to his mistress (click here)
By MANU RAJU 7/9/09 3:11 PM EDT
Updated: 7/10/09 12:19 PM EDT
Sen. John Ensign's parents shelled out big bucks to pay off their son's mistress, the latest twist in an unfolding scandal that has upended the political career of the one-time rising GOP star.
The scandal has also touched Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.), another prominent conservative, who revealed that he had confronted Ensign about the affair and urged him to end it, but says he will refuse to divulge any conversations with Ensign — even under inquiry from ethics investigators.
On Thursday, Ensign's attorney said that the senator's parents gave Doug Hampton, Cynthia Hampton and their two children gifts worth $96,000 in the form of a check. The attorney, Paul Coggins, said that each gift was limited to $12,000 and "complied with tax rules governing gifts."
The disclosure of the April 2008 payment seemed intended to head off growing questions about whether Ensign violated federal law by failing to report what Doug Hampton called a severance package worth more than $25,000 to his wife Cynthia, who left Ensign's campaign staff on April 30, 2008....
Then there is the 'dirty little joke' in California. Messy indeed. Sharing leisure time with female lobbiests in their pantyhose or less.
GOP Lawmaker's Graphic Sex-Bragging Caught On Tape (click here)
Zachary Roth
September 9, 2009, 11:45AM
"She wears little eye-patch underwear. So, the other day she came here with her underwear, Thursday. And so, we had made love Wednesday--a lot! And so she'll, she's all, 'I am going up and down the stairs, and you're dripping out of me!' So messy!"
Then there is good ole' Governor Sanford of South Carolina. Estranged spouse of soon to be author, Jenny Sanford, still first lady of South Carolina.
Gov. Sanford's use of state planes raises tax questions (click here)
Experts say using state planes for personal and political trips might be unreported income.
By Jim DavenportAssociated Press
Posted: Wednesday, Sep. 30, 2009
COLUMBIA S.C. Gov. Mark Sanford's use of state planes for personal and political trips could open him and the state to federal tax penalties because the flights never were recorded as taxable fringe benefits.
Tax experts who reviewed an Associated Press analysis of more than 100 flights since 2003 said numerous trips could have triggered Internal Revenue Service rules that require adding the value of flights to the governor's wages, making them subject to taxes. The analysis shows nine flights since 2008 alone could be worth $19,019 in taxable benefits.
"The state appears to take the position that they assume that all of these are business flights," said Marianna Dyson, a former IRS fringe benefits lawyer and one of the nation's leading experts on the topic. By doing that, the state "ignored the rules applicable to the use of an employer's aircraft."...
Don't know why Jenny doesn't have a boyfriend yet, the Governor already made up his mind.
Published: Tuesday, Sep. 22, 2009
Updated: Tuesday, Sep. 22, 2009 12:34 PM
Jenny Sanford plans memoir (click here)
Associated Press
COLUMBIA -- The estranged wife of South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford is writing a memoir.
Ballantine Books, an imprint of Random House Inc., said Tuesday it will publish Jenny Sanford's "inspirational memoir" in May 2010.
The publisher says Sanford "will grapple with the universal issue of maintaining integrity and a sense of self during life's difficult times."...
