Give Senator Ensign a reality check

By CREW Staff

Give Ensign a reality check Don't you just love it when politicians blame other people for their problems?

Case in point; Nevada Republican Senator John Ensign, who astonishingly is blaming CREW for his troubles (pdf). Remember, this is the senator who slept with a campaign staffer married to his chief of staff, fired them both, and then had his parents pay them off. He then helped the cuckolded husband set up shop lobbying the senator's own office.

Yet somehow, in Senator Ensign's twilight zone of a world, CREW is the source of his problems? The junior senator from Nevada needs a reality check, not a check for his legal defense.

Senator Ensign's letter makes two things clear; Senator Ensign must resign, and CREW's mission to bring responsibility and ethics to Washington is gaining momentum. With Congressional elections just around the corner, we need your help to keep the pressure on.

"Fair or not, the terms "crook" and "politician" have become synonymous in the minds of many today. Yet leaders of both parties seem to be declaring mission accomplished when it comes to cleaning up Washington."
- Executive Director Melanie Sloan, NY Times 8/14/10

We've got a lot of work to do. A donation to CREW sends a message to those in Congress that if politicians won't police themselves, the American public will.