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Hubby Challenges Wife for Congress

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Missouri lawmaker accuses husband of abuse.

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There are brutal campaigns for Congress going on throughout the country. Only in Missouri is a husband running against his wife. Democratic Rep. Linda Fischer is a freshman in the House of Representatives, and her husband wants to unseat her. Linda Fischer has accused her husband John Fischer of physical abuse in court and has taken a protective order out against him. John Fischer is denying the charges. “I’m standing up for people who lost their job. I don’t think they’re being represented fairly in this state because they do not take care of the working man," John Fischer said.

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