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07/09/2009

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Not sure if anyone viewed the entire interview, but the key point it seems to me -- not yet reported upon -- is that Hampton says that after he arranged the confrontation at the Fellowship house on C St in Feb 08, Ensign then tried to bluff his fellow religious zealouts AND his republican donors.

He wrote the letter under pressure from Coburn et al but then flew back the next day to NV to resume the affair.

AND according to Hampton, Ensign moved him out of his Senate office by ...having Mike Slanker, who had suspended November Inc for the 08 cycle while he worked for as ED of NRSC (in Hampton's words) "reopen November Inc and give you some clients."

In other words, Hampton who had no actual political experience, was to be moved out of the picture the only way Ensign could do it and not have to report it on his Senate, NRSC or PAC spendign, which was to move him to a private consulting firm that was at that moment doing no consulting. And to get some clients to funnel money to the firm for work that they could not seriously expect to be worth the value paid for it, given it was going to come from a guy with no actual political experience.

I wonder if some enterprising reporter or blogger might look up who were Nov Inc's clients in spring/summer/fall 08. Then find out of those candidates (and their donors) knew their money being used as hush money to cover up Ensign's sex life?

Also, the ad failed to note that husband and wife teams are encouraged to apply.

I guess that's what they forgot to add in the first line.

"A western Republican Senator is seeking college students and recent college graduates who can assist with wife swaps with benefits, orgies, swingers' parties, BDSM nights at Tom Coburn's house, other administrative tasks, and assisting with special projects (you know, the non-sexual ones)."

Sorry, but I couldn't help it. ;-)

And the Hampton's wedding vows: "I, Cindy, take you, Doug, to have and hold. And when one of our rich, powerful friends gets caught banging me, I promise to hang in there so we can get paid in full. And I won't like it. In sickness and in health..."

"And I, Doug, take you, Cindy to have and to hold. And when you get caught banging my best friend, I promise to make him pay, in U.S. dollars and mightily in politics. Til death do us part; unless you are no longer saleable, then we can part..."

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