“Family” PAC's summer cruise on the Chicago River.

Boone County Representative Ron Wait attends Family PAC cruise on Tuesday night.  Oklahoma United States Senator Tom Coburn was in Chicago Tuesday night as the featured speaker for Paul Caprio's Family PAC's annual cruise.

Senator Coburn is affiliated with a religious organization called The Family which has been involved in several recent scandals.^[63]

Senator Coburn lives in one of the Family's dormitories when in Washington, D.C. with Senator John Ensign, another Family member and longtime resident of the C Street Center who recently admitted he had an extra-marital affair with a staffer. The announcement by Ensign of his extramarital affair brought public scrutiny of the Family and its connection to other high ranking politicians including Senator Coburn.^[64]

Senator Coburn, together senior members of the Family, attempted to intervene to end Ensign's affair in February 2008, prior to the affair becoming public, including by meeting with the husband of Ensign's mistress and encouraging Ensign to write a letter to his mistress breaking off the affair.^[63][65][66] Senator Ensign was driven to Federal Express from C Street Center to post the letter, shortly after which Ensign called to tell his mistress to ignore it. ^[63][65][66]

Senator Coburn refuses to speak about his involvement in Ensign's affair or his knowledge of the affair well before it became public on the grounds of alleged "privilege" due to his separate status as a licensed physician in the State of Oklahoma (OB/GYN) and an ordained deacon.^[67]

^{The pictures are courtesy of Cal Skinner at:  http://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/labels/Family%20PAC.html}

^{Much of the text is taken from WIKIPEDIA at:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Coburn}