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Eight term Republican Rep. Mark Olson, who was shunned by his caucus after a domestic assault conviction, said today he will not file for re-election for his Big Lake seat in the state House of Representatives.

Olson allegedly “pushed” his wife Heidi down three times, bruising her. Why would he do such a thing? Because he was terrified of her.

Olson’s attorneys pleaded self-defense, and claimed Mark was a battered husband. The incidents of abuse they allege will shock and horrify and amuse you.

Their fights included Heidi Olson hitting him several times, stabbing his favorite dresser and cutting his picture off their wedding album cover with what he thought was a knife, Olson said.

The legislator said they both were exhausted on Nov. 12 after his just-ended reelection campaign and had been at odds for several days.

Heidi Olson testified Wednesday that her husband pushed her down three times and threatened “to finish the job” before he left. Heidi Olson, 50, who is larger than her husband, admitted hitting him once during their marriage and said he assaulted her several times, including bruising her by throwing two Bibles at her.

We’ll leave the “Bible-thumping” jokes to more shameless hacks. We’re too dumbfounded by the idea. Two bibles? At once? What translation? Would it have been more or less serious if they’d been Korans? Or Dan Brown books?

H/T Wonkette