[svcw]

Why does there have to be a press conference. Good grief, its nobody's business but his wife's.

[Wally_Kalbacken]

Well - the answer to that question is (I am willing to guess) that some GLBT group was going to hold a press conference tomorrow to spill the dirt - and Ensign just took a page from the PR handbook and preempted them. Doesn't make the offense any better, and probably spares him a negligible amount of support that would have been lost if the news waited until tomorrow.

Mike Bowers, long time AG of GA was done in by a long term affair he had with a staffer. But the affair was kept quiet until a GLBT group which was incensed at Bowers for the Bowers v. Hardwick decision (upolding GA's anti-sodomy laws back in the 1980's) - decided to short circuit his campaign for Governor with such a disclosure. He beat them to the punch by hours, but it gained him nothing.

[novemberslady]

Because one of the former staffers (the husband?) was attempting to blackmail him.

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WHY NOT WORLDWIDE HEADLINES?

[DemonDeac]

“Why does there have to be a press conference. Good grief, its nobody’s business but his wife’s. “

Probably knows a rival has the info or that the broad is going to blackmail him over it and reckons it better to beat them to the punch.