Jon Ralston is THE political pundit for Nevada. He's become a must-read for developments in the Reid-Angle race. But, he's also got the Ensign scandal in his sights. The first line of yesterday's column kinda gives it away:
John Ensign is dead, one in an occasional series:That John Ensign is still a United States Senator is just wrong. And, it's just great to know that Tom Coburn's involvement, via the C Street House, is now helping with Ensign's destruction.
Just in case anyone thought the most stunning public crime occurring in Nevada these days was GOP Senate nominee Sharron Angle’s slow-motion suicide since June 8, Politico reminded us last week that Nevada’s junior senator’s self-immolation is even longer and more painful to watch. (http://tinyurl.com/23u2oba)
The Washington publication reported Friday that Oklahoma Sen. Tom Coburn has turned over e-mails to the Justice Department and has agreed to be interviewed by the feds or the Senate ethics panel probing Ensign’s conduct that sprung from an affair he had with a former staffer, Cynthia Hampton, who was married to the senator’s best friend (who also worked for him).
Coburn was involved in some kind of intervention at the infamous “C Street” House of Ill Repute in February 2008 with Ensign and Doug Hampton, who subsequently asserted on “Face to Face” in July 2009 that Coburn tried to negotiate a deal for “restitution” from Nevada’s junior senator.
