When did senator John Ensign have an extramarital affair?
Calling it “absolutely the worst thing that I’ve ever done in my life,” U.S. Sen. John Ensign admitted Tuesday that he had an affair with a campaign staffer last year. “If there was ever anything that I could take back in my life, this would be it,” Ensign, 51, said Tuesday afternoon in Las Vegas, reading from a prepared statement in a brief news conference at which he took no questions. The Nevada Republican, a leading conservative voice in his party who has been listed as possible presidential material, indicated that he plans to remain in office and that his wife of 21 years, Darlene, is standing by him. The woman and her husband “were both close friends, and they both worked for me,” Ensign said. Ensign had the affair, from December 2007 to August 2008, with a woman who worked for his Senate campaign and his political action committee. The woman’s husband, meanwhile, worked in Ensign’s Senate office, according to an aide who spoke on condition of anonymity. By May 2008, both were n
