More Ensign Sleaze, as if There is Any Other Kind of Ensign Story

The son of Ensign's mistress was paid by a GOP committee while his mom and her boss were carrying on a torrid affair. Of course Cindy Hampton was paid a tidy sum for her "work" for the senator from Nevada:

An Associated Press review of federal records showed Cynthia Hampton, 46, received a promotion and a pay raise around the time of the affair at one political entity controlled by Ensign and a pay raise at a second. Her husband was an employee in Ensign's Senate office.

Ensign told a hastily arranged news briefing on Tuesday he had an extramarital affair with a woman on his campaign payroll, and it lasted several months, ending last August.

The disclosure resurrected questions about a two-week period in 2002, when Ensign abruptly dropped from public view. A person familiar with that episode, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter, said Tuesday the senator told a close associate the absence followed an earlier affair.