From the SeattlePI.com:
Sen. John Ensign, R-Nevada, a possible Republican presidential candidate in 2012, on Tuesday admitted a lengthy affair with a campaign aide who was married to a member of the Senator's staff.
"I violated my vows of marriage," said Ensign, a conservative and born-again Christian active in the Promise Keepers organization.
The two-term senator said the affair began late in 2007 and ended in August of 2008. He did not identify the "woman in question" - to use a phrase made famous by former Sen. Gary Hart - but she apparently worked for Ensign's Battleborn Political Action Committee.
Ensign's paramour and her husband - described by the senator as "close friends of mine" - no longer work for Ensign.
According to the AP, Ensign has been a rising star among conservatives, speaking out against President Barack Obama's stimulus package, statehood for the District of Columbia and union-organizing legislation and in favor of gun owners' rights.
Ensign called Bill Clinton's affair with Monica Lewinsky "an embarrassing moment for the country," and dubbed airport bathroom hook-up artist--fellow Republican Larry Craig--a "disgrace" for the Idaho senator's stalled amour.
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