Ensign’s PAC raised $26,000 in scandal month

In the month of June, Sen. John Ensign's political action committee, Battle Born PAC, raised $26,000, according to its report filed with the Federal Election Commission. That represented a drop-off from the previous month: The PAC brought in $79,000 in May.

It was in mid-June that Ensign announced he'd had an affair with a former campaign staffer, Cindy Hampton. As Politico notes, the PAC made a contribution a week after the scandal broke to the Tennessee gubernatorial campaign of Rep. Zach Wamp.

Wamp is one of Ensign's housemates at the increasingly notorious C Street house for lawmakers connected to a secretive church group known as The Family. He recently told a Knoxville newspaper the Ensign affair was bringing unwanted attention to the house.