Lloyd Oliver (D), a candidate for district attorney in Harris County, TX, told the Texas Observer, “Family violence is so, so overrated.”
Oliver later clarified his comments to the Huffington Post: “There are some people — I don’t understand it — but part of their making love is to beat one another up first. Why do we want to get involved in people’s bedrooms?”


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