I am neither an attorney nor an expert in sexual harassment laws, but what do you call it when someone is handed a pink slip to keep them from boinking her boss? That's exacly what happened in an article by Salon that reports that Oklahoma senator Tom Coburn and the leadership of the C Street cult told John Ensign's mistress to hit the road.
Now, of course, I know I was wrong: John Ensign is a brightly tanned, hapless figure who used his Family connections to cover up the fruits of his flirtations, to make moral decisions for him, and to do his dirty work when his secret romance sputtered. Doug Hampton, the friend and former aide whom Ensign cuckolded, tells us that it was Family leader David Coe, along with Coe's brother Tim and Family "brother" Sen. Tom Coburn, who delivered the pink slip when it was time to put Cynthia Hampton out of Ensign's reach.
While it is not the main point of this article, it's the one that stood out to me as having possible legal implications and could be the most damaging to Ensign's career. Perhaps someone here can shed a little light as to whether any laws were broken.