Looks like Sen. John Ensign is in for a rough couple of days. His former staffer and buddy — the one whose wife Ensign had an affair with — has done a two-part interview for a local TV show scheduled to run tonight and tomorrow night. The Las Vegas Sun has a preview of the interview, Doug Hampton’s first since Ensign admitted to the affair:
Hampton said the affair began while his family was staying at the Ensign home. Hampton said his family’s house was broken into just before Christmas 2007, at which time the Ensigns invited the Hamptons to stay with them in a nearby Summerlin neighborhood. …
Hampton discovered the affair when he saw an incriminating text message, he said.
The families confronted the issue in full on Christmas Eve.
Still, Hampton said, Ensign continued to pursue Cynthia Hampton with text messages and phone calls. …
Hampton said he reached out to intermediaries involved in a Christian fellowship home in Washington, D.C., where Ensign and several other powerful Washington figures live.
The group, including Coburn, a well-known conservative, confronted Ensign and suggested that the Hamptons needed to be given financial assistance — in the millions of dollars — to pay off their $1 million-plus mortgage and move them to a new life away from Ensign.
The Sun also obtained a copy of a painfully awkward handwritten letter from Ensign to Cindy Hampton trying to end the affair.
