# NEW Stupid Republican Idea of the Day (Part 1)

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**Created:** [June 22, 2020, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140 "2020-06-22T07:01:53Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 27, 2021, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9151 "2021-12-27T19:04:47Z")

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Madison Cawthorn is in the middle of a divorce, but he talked about how he met his wife. He claims he visited a casino in St. Petersburg, Russia, where he met an army captain and they stayed friends. A little later, back in the US, the army captain called him and invited him to a crossfit competition. Which he claims was a setup in order to introduce Cawthorn to the woman whom he later married. Casinos are illegal in Russia. He went to an illegal club where he just happened to meet a guy who just happened to set up a fake crossfit competition to introduce him to a woman? Yeah, nothing suspicious about that.

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