Text of Doug Hampton’s letter to Fox News

[tj2001]

http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2009/jun/19/text-husbands-letter/

Editor’s note: Doug Hampton, the husband of Cynthia Hampton, who had an affair with Sen. John Ensign, explains in a letter to a Fox News Channel anchorwoman, Megyn Kelly, how the senator’s affair with his wife has“completely ruined” the couple’s lives.

The letter is dated June 11, 2009. Its text follows in full and is published without any corrections to its grammar or spelling.

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Thursday, June 11, 2009

Fox News- Corporate Office
1211 Avenue of the America’s (sic)
New York, New York 10036

Megyn Kelly,

More than any time in my life I understand why people take matters into their own hands. I am disheartened! I have sought wise counsel, tried to do the right thing and continue to run into road blocks (sic) in dealing with a very terrible circumstance and injustice that lives in my life. I am hoping you and Fox News can help.

My name is Doug Hampton. I am a former employee of US (sic) Senator John Ensign. I worked for Senator Ensign in his official government office on Capitol Hill from November 2006 to April 2008. My responsibilities were the oversight of his personnel in Washington as well as the state of Nevada. Duties included budgets, policy and public speaking on behalf of the Senator and his initiatives.

Here is my story. In December of 2007 in the midst of some very difficult personal issues that deeply impacted my family and marriage, Senator Ensign pursued and engaged in a relationship with my wife. Our families were lifelong friends, our children attend school together to this day, and our homes are in neighborhoods across from each other. My wife was the Senator’s campaign treasurer.

There is a tremendous amount (sic) of details and critical facts associated with this story and their relationship that will not be addressed in this letter but are very important and need to be further explored if you choose to meet with me. The purpose of this letter is to establish the framework for discussion and provide enough information to warrant a meeting with you and Fox News. This is the only letter of its kind and no other news stations have been contacted with this information. I have great respect and affection for Fox News and many of your collages (sic). I’m sending this to you because you have a legal back ground (sic) and this story has several legal elements.

The unethical behavior and immoral choice of Senator Ensign has been confronted by me and others on a number of occasions over this past year. In fact one of the confrontations took place in February 2008 at his home in Washington DC (sic) with a group of his peers. One of the attendee’s (sic) was Senator Tom Coburn from Oklahoma as well as several other men who are close to the Senator. Senator Ensign’s conduct and relentless pursuit of my wife led to our dismissal in April of 2008. I would like to say he stopped his heinous conduct and pursuit upon our leaving, but that was not the case and his actions did not subside until August of 2008.

The actions of Senator Ensign have ruined our lives and careers and left my family in shambles. We have lost significant income, suffered indescribable pain and emotional suffering. We find ourselves today with an overwhelming loss of relationships, career opportunities and hope for recovery. Our pursuit of justice continues to place me and my family in harm’s way as we fear for our well being (sic).

Today, Senator Ensign’s responsibility and stature have increased within the US (sic) Senate. His is currently the head of “Policy” for the Republican Party, the number four position within the Parties (sic) leadership team. We on the other hand are completely ruined and left to deal with the aftermath of very evil and completely unjustifiable acts by one of our countries (sic) top leaders.

It appears there may be nothing the law can do to correct and bring justice and restitution to (sic) this terrible wrong that has been done to us. I have sought a number of lawyers who are having difficulty finding charges that may hold up in court. There are either technicalities that exist due to the time period in which I have sought help, or other nuances that quite frankly make no sense to me given the egregious acts and blatant abuse of power by Senator Ensign. From my perspective this whole nightmare is terribly wrong and completely unacceptable and should not be tolerated.

I clearly understand this story is difficult to believe for anyone reading (sic) for the first time. I too would have difficulty believing it, if someone brought me this story. However I assure you it is true and there are facts, a paper trail, phone records and personal witnesses to testify to its truth. It is my belief we are dealing with a very powerful person and an institution in the US (sic) Senate that only the media can pierce to expose the wrong and bring light and focus to what needs to be done? (sic)

Please help me! This should not be how the leadership of our country should be allowed to behave. I need justice, help and restitution for what Senator Ensign has done to me and my family. Regardless of technicalities, regardless of position, regardless of power this cannot and should not be tolerated in our country from our trusted leaders. Will you help? Will you consider a meeting with me to further discuss this story and what can be done to bring justice and correction to this situation?

I love this country and considered it a great privilege to work in the US (sic) Senate. I am bringing this to you and Fox News to address this professionally and correctly. I could have sought the most liberal, Republican hating media to expose this story, but there are people’s lives at stake and justice is about proper process as well as outcome. Senator Ensign has no business serving in the US (sic) Senate anymore! I will send you and (sic) email as well as leave you and your staff messages in an attempt to meet you and your team as soon as possible. I live and work in Nevada but can be in New York within hours, I look forward to your help.

Sincerely,

Doug Hampton

[MADem]

1. This is revenge because Ensign wouldn't pay the hush money.

What a tool. No wonder his idiot wife screwed around on him.

He wants more than "help." He wants MONEY.

[sharp_stick]

6. I don't blame him for going after the "honorable" Senator

I still put the onus on Ensign. If he hadn't of been screwing this guy's wife there would be no need for hush money. If somebody in a position of power decides to play house with someone else's wife he deserves to be shaken down. Personally I would have taken him to the cleaner financially and then outed him anyway just for fun.

I do find it kind of amusing that this guy claims to have been responsible for public speaking on behalf of Ensign but he can't even pen a coherent letter with a decent spell/grammar check.

[MADem]

17. Oh, TOTALLY! No argument from me on that score! Absolutely!

This is the sequel to Dumb and Dumber, it's Sleazy and Sleazier!

The cuckolded husband should have found a way to get the two of them doing the nasty in one of those states where there's an "alienation of affection" clause. In that case, he could have shaken the guy down legally and in court.

[n2doc]

11. He's a Republican, so completely expected

He might have to give up his Party registration if he didn't try to milk this for every dollar possible.

[EOTE]

2. Perhaps he should be suing Ensign for lessons on the proper use of the apostrophe.

Given this guy's seriously deficient writing skills, I'm kind of guessing he didn't get this job on his merits alone.

[TahitiNut]

15. GMTA

:shrug:

[EOTE]

18. IDKWTMINGWA*

:bounce:

*I don't know what that means, I'm not good with acronyms.

[TahitiNut]

20. "Great Minds Think Alike" ... in other words, I agree.

It's one of the more common and age-old acronyms -- not one of the lame, "trendy" cell phone neoacronyms.

[EOTE]

24. Gotcha.

Luckily, no one has ever accused me of being trendy :) TTFN.

[rurallib]

3. I can't imagine FUX would let this out

Hampton apparently doesn't know FUX is the republican house organ?

[Diamonique]

4. Well that's weird. What does/did he expect FOX to do about it?

[gratuitous]

13. Indeed

He claims to be seeking "justice help and restitution." I don't think any of that is part of Fox's business plan. Did he watch too many episodes of Ally McBeal and get the idea that Fox is somehow a law firm? Or is he just making a not-so-veiled plea that Fox destroy Sen. Ensign in the court of public opinion?

[zeemike]

5. Oh yes Fox will help him alright.

Perhaps they will fly him in on a small plane.

[malaise]

19. Or meet them in a shed some where

They'd better watch their backs.

The Rushicans have self destructed.

[SidDithers]

7. How did someone, with such poor writing skills, ever get a position...

of responsibility in a US Senator's office? His duties included "public speaking on behalf of the Senator and his initiatives", yet he can barely string words together into sentences. Yikes.

Sid

[trotsky]

10. That crossed my mind, too.

The number of (sic)s is what you'd expect to find in a rightwingnut LTTE.

[Fumesucker]

12. Clear and concise writing is rapidly becoming a lost art..

Kissing ass is far more likely to get you a good position than mere skill.

My grown daughter writes all the emails both for her supervisor and the supervisor above that, the lady two levels up literally writes things like "we need to communications better" (actual example).

The level of writing on DU is considerably better than on teh intertubez in general and yet I consistently read things here that make me cringe.

And no, I'm not a perfect writer by any means.

[sarcasmo]

16. It's all who you know, not what you know.

[KharmaTrain]

8. So He's A Victim??

His wife submitted to Ensign under some kind of threat? And continued the affair after being fired for fear for her life? Or was she just as complicit as Ensign was...as they say, it takes two to tango.

Of course lawyers are going to have difficult times finding grounds to prosecute Ensign...it was a CONSENTUAL affair. Had his wife said no or gone public the moment she felt Ensign's advances were a threat, that'd be sexual harassment and another story.

Sadly, this chump is another victim...as are millions of others...of being the "actor burned in a three-way script". I get a feeling he's got a nice payday coming from book offers and talk shows. Moral of the story: don't dip it in the company ink.

[Catshrink]

9. Yeah, Ensign's an ass. We knew that.

And now we know that Doug was hardly an upstanding citizen. Dougie puts all the blame on Ensign:

"The actions of Senator Ensign have ruined our lives and careers and left my family in shambles. We have lost significant income, suffered indescribable pain and emotional suffering. We find ourselves today with an overwhelming loss of relationships, career opportunities and hope for recovery. Our pursuit of justice continues to place me and my family in harm’s way as we fear for our well being (sic)."

Doug is trying to play the victim card but at some point, Cynthia said yes. Are there signs of coercion? I haven't heard this. As for losing income, I'd say they did quite well if the reports of income doubling are true. And that is a pretty nice house someone posted a photo of on DU.

[TahitiNut]

14. Sic 'em, Doug.

:eyes:

Fucking illiterate. :puke:
How big was that salary again???

[malaise]

21. Time for all of them to go and find a job

Fugging parasites all. I'm lovin' it. :popcorn:

[TahitiNut]

22. It's becoming clearer why the Hamptons needed a house with five bedrooms.

:evilgrin:

[gratuitous]

23. Interesting about the date of the letter

Apparently, Hampton told Fox News about Ensign's dalliance with his wife before Ensign called his little press conference. And according to Hampton's letter, Sen. Coburn of Oklahoma also knew about the affair while it was ongoing.

And now Ensign is walking back on his claim that Hampton was trying to extort money from him. Because, after all, how can you blackmail someone after you've written a letter to a major network? The whole idea of blackmail is that you'll keep quiet as long as you're being paid. Once you're no longer quiet, there's no blackmail.

You don't suppose that Sen. Ensign, along with lying about having the affair, lying to his pals in the Promise Keepers, and lying to his wife, would also lie about being blackmailed by Hampton? My goodness! It's getting so that some people might not trust Sen. Ensign anymore.

[Fuzz]

25. So he, basically a nobody, expects Fox to go after a sitting Republican Senator? Good luck!!