Ensign Resigns GOP Leadership Post
When you make other people’s personal lives matters of public policy, you deserve all the extra attention that’s paid to your personal life. John Ensign is learning this lesson the hard way:
A day after admitting to an extramarital affair, Nevada Sen. John Ensign has resigned his position in the Senate Republican leadership, a Senate GOP leadership source confirmed to CNN Wednesday.Ensign was the head of the Republican Policy Committee, the fourth-ranking elected leadership position.
The Republican Renewal Project, a group that plans to take back Nevada for the GOP, has already postponed its fundraising barbeque with Sen. Ensign that was supposed to be this Friday citing a “scheduling conflict.”
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