# Senator Ensign's affair quite a soap opera

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/senator-ensigns-affair-quite-a-soap-opera/512318>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [October 2, 2009, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/senator-ensigns-affair-quite-a-soap-opera/512318 "2009-10-02T05:12:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 2009, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/senator-ensigns-affair-quite-a-soap-opera/512318/1 "2009-10-02T05:12:28Z")

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[This story just went on and on.](http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33128776/ns/politics-the_new_york_times//)

At first I was kind of sorry for the cuckolded husband, but as the story goes on he just gets greedier and more entitled until it finally explodes in his face.

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**Author:** ![janeslogin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@janeslogin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/janeslogin)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 2009, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/senator-ensigns-affair-quite-a-soap-opera/512318/2 "2009-10-02T19:18:19Z")

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In the meantime, we in Nevada need his office occasionally for actual needs and they are all unavailable. We need someone to forward a complaint about an interstate fraud situation to the proper authorities with a cover letter from the senators office and the are just not doing it.

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**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 2009, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/senator-ensigns-affair-quite-a-soap-opera/512318/3 "2009-10-02T20:44:27Z")

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Sounds more like pimp than cuckold.