The question was asked, but Republican Sen. John Ensign is declining to say whether he has been contacted by federal authorities in a possible investigation into the lobbying activities of his former aide, Doug Hampton.
Ensign was friendly enough as he offered a few brief hallway comments before ducking into a Republican Party meeting in the Senate this week. Mostly, he referred questions about the investigation back to his previous statements. He looked tired.
The senator has said previously he did nothing wrong in helping to get a job for Hampton, whose wife, Cindy, is a former campaign staffer with whom the senator was having an affair. Hampton has admitted to violating the one-year ban on lobbying his former boss, and suggested in a New York Times story that Ensign was aware they were violating the ban.
Can This Senator's Career Be Saved?
Not SHOULD it, of course, but CAN it?
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