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After serving as Ensign’s campaign and Battle Born PAC treasurer, Cynthia Hampton was Chris Ward the embezzler’s assistant treasurer at the NRCC. Chris Ward, treasurer of the NRCC, had also been treasurer of Ensign's Battle Born PAC. Ward also was treasurer for the Senate Majority Committee; after his removal, Cynthia Hampton became treasurer of the Senate Majority Committee.
But current and former aides to the Nevada Republican say the woman was 46-year-old Cynthia Hampton, a campaign staffer whose husband was a top aide in Ensign’s Senate office. “It was known in Hampton served as the treasurer for Ensign’s reelection campaign and for his leadership fund, Battle Born PAC. According to people familiar with the matter, Ensign’s affair with Hampton took place between December 2007 and August 2008. FEC records show that she ended her affiliation with the two committees in early 2008. Hampton is married to Douglas Hampton, who, according to Senate records, served as Ensign’s administrative assistant in his personal office from November 2006 to May 2008 — around the same time Cynthia Hampton left Ensign’s committees. http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20090616/... Sen. John Ensign had to correct a campaign finance report after auditors turned up several lapses that are being blamed on Christopher Ward, his former treasurer who is at the center of a Republican embezzlement scandal. Like a number of other Republicans, Ensign hurriedly commissioned an audit of his Battle Born Political Action Committee earlier this year when Ward emerged as a suspect in an accounting fraud involving the National Republican Congressional Committee, one of the party’s chief fundraising arms. Besides working for the committee, Ward also handled the books for Ensign’s PAC and more than 80 GOP campaign organizations in recent years. http://blog.washingtonpost.com/capitol-bri... http://www.lvrj.com/news/19968144.html Battle Born PAC raised $423,932 last year and spent $474,365. Ward became treasurer March 29, 2006, and filed a year-end report on Jan. 23, 2008. After Cynthia Hampton became the new treasurer Feb. 12, she filed an amended year-end report eight days later. A spokeswoman described the amendment as fixing routine bookkeeping errors unrelated to Ward. Ward also was treasurer for Senate Majority Committee, a joint fundraising committee for six senators who are up for re-election this year. Senate Majority Committee raised $214,500 last year. Ward was listed as treasurer from April 2006 to January 2008. The committee registered Hampton as its treasurer Feb. 12. http://public.cq.com/docs/cqt/news110-0000... A nice financial scandal tie-in, as the cherry on top of a sex scandal, is always good.  Edit: John Ensign was NRSC chair 2007-2009. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Repu... |
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I don't believe that America is run by politicians in Washington. I believe it's run by people like us, in places like this. -Tulsa OK, January 29, 2004 We must assure investments in the technology infrastructure — the broadband and wireless access improved and modernized highway, air, and rail transportation systems, and the access to affordable, reliable sustainable energy essential to continuing economic development. We must have a real plan to achieve energy independence. And we need to do so without further damaging our fragile environment. In fact, sustainable energy and so-called green engineering provide major growth opportunities for American ingenuity, and we must move in that direction. - "Real State Of The Union," January 30, 2006 We need to really get to the bottom of the Abramoff scandal, we should have a special prosecutor appointed for that, we really need a congressional investigation of the whole business of the NSA wiretapping and how far that goes, there's been a lot of squirreling around the edges; we've never completed the investigation of 9/11 and whether the administration actually misused the intelligence information it had - the evidence seems pretty clear to me, I've seen that for a long time. I think Americans are best served by a strong 2-party system and that's been out of whack and what I can do in 2006 is try to help the right Democrats get into office and that's what I'm going to do. - "This Week," March 5, 2006 Blogroll DU Journals
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