as a candidate for senate, and as a senator, john ensign was a family values republican. he also lived at c street, the pseudo church subsidized boarding house for conservative members of congress run by the secretive religious organization known as the family. in 1998, john ensign demanded that president clinton resign from office as president because of the monica lewinsky affair. in 2004, john ensign crusaded to amend the u.s. constitution to keep same-sex couples from allowed to be married. quoting him then after all of that, in 2009, john ensign got caught cheating on his wife. he was shtooping one of his own staffers, who was married to another staffer, all of which was taking place as he was serving as the republican party s senate campaign chairman. in the next election, the republicans lost a ton of seats in the senate. when john ensign s affair was outed, the senator cut both of the staffers in the situation loose. he cut loose the one he was shtooping and the o