Rep. Bill Foster (D-IL) and his ex-wife Ann asked the Chicago Sun Times if they could sit down and talk about their 1996 divorce.

Foster has begun weighing a run for Sen Mark Kirk’s (R-IL) seat in 2016 and he wants to pre-empt questions about his ex-wife’s divorce filing in which she requested he move out of the marital residence because “the Defendant has pushed, shoved, and caused physical abuse and emotional harm of the Plaintiff, thereby putting her in fear for not only herself but also for the parties (sic) minor children.”

Ann Foster “said she did not read it before signing and told the judge the allegation was absolutely not true, that there was never abuse of any kind.”