It's a mystery why John Ensign is still serving in the Senate.
He's the GOP's problem. And, today, the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC), the political arm of Mitch McConnell's GOP caucus, got subpoenaed in the Ensign case:
A federal grand jury has issued subpoenas to a Republican campaign committee and companies in Nevada in a probe of Sen. John Ensign, who has been under scrutiny for his efforts to find lobbying work for the husband of his former mistress.Glad to see Ensign has implicated all of his GOP Senate colleagues in this tawdry scandal involving an extramarital affair with a staffer, payoffs to said staffer of $96,000 from his parents and the possibility of broken ethics laws.
One subpoena went to the National Republican Senatorial Committee, which was formerly chaired by Ensign, a Nevada Republican, committee spokesman Brian Walsh said Thursday.
Sean Cairncross, general counsel for the group that is the campaign committee for Republican Senate candidates, said the committee has responded appropriately to questions concerning matters related to the timeframe of the 2008 election campaign.
