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Tue, 10/28/2008 - 16:40

Ensign loses battle for campaign cash

By Alex Isenstadt, Politicker.com Reporter

WASHINGTON - National Republican Senatorial Committee Chairman John Ensign's desperate pleas to his colleagues for campaign cash have largely fallen on deaf ears.

With a week to go until Election Day, Ensign has collected contributions to the NRSC from only a handful of members, according to an internal committee count. The lack of giving left the NRSC $9 million short of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.

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Fri, 08/22/2008 - 15:41

Analysts weigh in on Ensign missive

By Alex Isenstadt, Politicker.com Reporter

WASHINGTON -- National Republican Senatorial Committee chair John Ensign’s public lashing of his fellow Republicans for failing to fill the organization’s coffers hit the nation’s capitol like a thunderbolt.

“It’s the kind of rhetoric you would expect to see behind the scenes but not in a statement from a committee chairman,” remarked Nathan Gonzales, an analyst for the Rothenberg Political Report.

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Fri, 08/22/2008 - 10:53

Ensign takes fellow Republicans to the woodshed

By Alex Isenstadt, Politicker.com Reporter

WASHINGTON -- National Republican Senatorial Committee chair John Ensign (R-Las Vegas) apparently believes his best strategy for goading money out of his Senate colleagues is by taking them to the woodshed – publicly.

In a scalding Friday morning statement, Ensign said the NRSC’s budget for airing of independent expenditure-paid advertisements for the fall’s elections would have to be reduced because of the committee’s lack of funding from Republican Members.

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