UPDATE: Ensign to Announce Retirement

[jefferson_dem]

:popcorn:

Sen. Ensign to announce plans on 'political future' at noon

Nevada Sen. John Ensign is scheduled to announce plans on what his office is calling his "political future" Monday in Las Vegas.

The GOP lawmaker has been embroiled in controversy in recent years with news of an affair with a former staffer's wife.

Sen. Ensign is slated to make an announcement at a news conference at the George Federal Courthouse at 12 p.m.

Stay tuned to News 3 and mynews3.com for the latest on this developing story.

http://www.mynews3.com/story.php?id=38946

UPDATE:

Ensign to Announce Retirement
By David M. Drucker
Roll Call Staff
March 7, 2011, 1:52 p.m.

Sen. John Ensign is expected to announce at an afternoon news conference in Las Vegas that he will retire rather than face a brutal 2012 re-election campaign, according to knowledgeable sources.

The Nevada Republican, who has been embattled since revealing he had an affair with the wife of a former aide, was facing a possible primary challenge from Rep. Dean Heller (R). Heller is now expected to run for the open Senate seat.

Roll Call Politics rates this race as a Tossup.

http://www.rollcall.com/news/-203895-1.html

[bluestateguy]

1. That's usually cue for a retirement annoucement

nt

[nykym]

2. Or having sucessfully staved off an attack

from the liberal left this family values republican is now running for the presidency.

[emulatorloo]

3. Why are the liberals so hateful and mean?

How dare they besmirch him for bribing his ex-girlfriend's husband. Clearly that was the responsible Christian thing to do.

[nykym]

4. Touche!

[damntexdem]

5. That's retirement -- when's indictment?

;-)

(Ain't holdin' my breath.)

[Beacool]

6. Ahhhh, that's a shame...........

:eyes:

What happened, he ran out of diapers?

:7

Oops, I think that was Vitter. There are so many of these Repugs with sex scandals.........

:evilgrin:

[Armstead]

7. Now he can make a killing as a lobbyist.