3/7/11 3:46 PM EST
Burdened by what he called “consequences to sin,” Nevada Sen. John Ensign announced Monday afternoon he would not seek a third term, creating the eighth open Senate seat of the 2012 cycle.
Once a rising star in the Republican Party, the 52-year-old Ensign has been saddled with scandal since it was revealed in 2009 he carried on an affair with the wife of one of his top staffers.
Despite repeated pledges to run again, Ensign said he decided over the last week that he did not want to put his family through what would surely be a brutal campaign.
“There are consequences to sin and when you’re in a leadership role, those consequences can affect a lot of other people,” Ensign said, standing alongside his wife and children at a Las Vegas press conference. “I have come to the most difficult decision I have ever made in my life … But at this point in my life I have to put my family first.”
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