State Senator's Husband Crashes Opponent's Party

Chicago - Jim Madigan is running for state senate, and about 40 supporters were attending a fundraiser at a North Side gay bar when Leo Smith made a surprise appearance.

"And as I looked, ‘I thought God, that looks like my opponent's husband,’" Madigan said. "He looked a little disheveled. He took awhile to put sentences together, so that was a little bizarre."

Madigan said Smith sat quietly at the bar for about an hour… went into the men's room… and then charged out with fire in his eyes and began bullying him.

"And he said, 'Well I'm Heather's husband.' And I said, 'I know, thanks for coming to my event.' And he said, 'I'm not here to support your event. I know you think you're going to get famous with all your bull____,'" Madigan recalled.

Smith is married to 7th District State Senator Heather Steans -- and is featured prominently on her campaign Web site .

FOX Chicago News tried for two days to get a hold of Senator Steans to get her side of the story. But we haven't been able to find her at her office and she hasn't returned our calls.

Steans’ campaign manager said, "(Smith) did something dumb, and we'll leave it at that. All Mr. Madigan seems to want to do is distort (the senator's) record. The whole thing is pretty silly."

But democratic senate candidate Jacob Meister, who was attending the fundraiser, said there's nothing silly about it.

"It was very inappropriate,” Meister said. “And it was inappropriate for Heather to send her husband to do her bidding."

The Steans campaign said she never asked her husband to confront her competitor. But she isn't apologizing.

"And the fact their campaign never called us to say sorry probably suggests that they're a little happy he did it," Madigan said.

Madigan said that after venting for 15 minutes, the angry political spouse left on his own. And no, he did not leave a donation.