GOP senator reprimanded for role in Ensign affair

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http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2018290072_senatethics26.html

The Senate Ethics Committee said it was "improper conduct" for Oklahoma Sen. Tom Coburn to meet with Douglas Hampton, a former aide to Sen. John Ensign who tried to work as a lobbyist after being forced from Ensign's office.

Originally published Friday, May 25, 2012 at 6:06 PM

By Lisa Mascaro

Tribune Washington bureau

WASHINGTON — The Senate Ethics Committee publicly admonished Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., on Friday for improperly meeting with a lobbyist and former aide to Sen. John Ensign, the Nevada Republican who resigned from the Senate after having an affair with the aide's wife.

The qualified reprimand was for failing to avoid the ban on having former staff-turned-lobbyists meet with officials.

It falls short of a censure or criminal violation.

But the committee said it was "improper conduct" for Coburn to meet with Douglas Hampton, the former aide who tried to work as a lobbyist after the affair forced him out of Ensign's office.

[oldhippydude]

1. well Jesus said it was ok

both c-streeters

[malaise]

2. I can't wait for Ensign to be charged

I hope it's close to the election

[progressoid]

3. Publicly admonished? Oh no!

Did they also issue a sternly written letter?

GMAFB

[annabanana]

4. Ooooo! Reprimanded!

That's gotta sting

[Hubert Flottz]

5. Don't they know by now that...

Tom Coburn, can do anything he wants to and get away with it...afterall, he is a republican and therefore, above the laws of the "Homeland"