Claire Nelson
Rachael Claire Ensign Nelson, 89, died Oct. 16, 2021, at home surrounded by family. A resident of Livermore, California for over 60 years, Claire was born and raised in Topeka,
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Rachael Claire Ensign Nelson, 89, died Oct. 16, 2021, at home surrounded by family. A resident of Livermore, California for over 60 years, Claire was born and raised in Topeka,
Did was this. mike ensign, senator, and i am black, rob portman , rob worked so hard. so knowledgeable. tim scott, likewise. these people work so hard. i don't know if they're given the proper credit. the whole senate, and i say the senate, unfortunately the republicans in the senate, democrats don't like tax cuts. they want to raise your taxes, they don't want to lower your taxes. they want to raise your taxes and spend money foolishly on things that we don't need. we are cutting taxes, taking care of our military, and we are taking care of people. and we are really doing a good job. these fo...
Advisor to john ensign. says that tom coburn called mike ensign the father. the parents were involved in the hush money. i think tom coburn might have a problem. >> in the ethics committee it doesn't have to rise to a criminal standard. it can just be conduct unbecoming a senator. it can be whatever the ethics committee decides in effect is a violation. is it your sense that they went easy on coburn in the ethics committee because they knew he wasn't running for re-election, he'd be leaving voluntarily on his own soon enough? >> i guess i don't know the answer to that. i would say they sure di...
Real quickly, rachel, mike ensign is a very, very private person. even when he was the head of a major gaming company, he did not like public attention. he wasn't thrilled that his son was in public office. he has to be mortified by all of this. but let's be clear what that report says. that report has multiple witnesses inside john ensign's office saying john ensign described it himself as, quote, severance. that is devastating to what ensign has said previously, what his attorneys have said. and, yes, what he had his parents swear to. >> the election commission, the federal election commissi...
>> well, i don't know if my reporting has been vindicated, rachel. but i tell you who has been vindicated here, doug hampton. because everything he said on page 42, it's a link to that program we had him on face-to-face less than a month after john ensign's disclosure, has been borne out to be true. the severance pay, the conspiracy to get him the lobbying jobs, the full knowledge that john ensign had. and tom coburn's role, which he detailed, and it's even more detailed in those granular details in that report, rachel. he called mike ensign, john ensign's father, which according to the report...