Campaign squabble turns violent; state rep's daughter chargedgd

Cook County prosecutors say a campaign squabble turned physical when the daughter of an incumbent state representative and her boyfriend used a staple gun to injure the mother's primary challenger in an episode that a judge called "an embarrassment to our entire country." Bond was set at $25,000 each Friday for Jessica Soto, daughter of state Rep. Cynthia Soto, and the boyfriend after their arrest on charges the couple attacked Soto's opponent nine days before Tuesday's primary election. The altercation began after candidate Robert Zwolinski tore down campaign posters that Jessica Soto and her boyfriend, Bradley Fichter, were stapling to the side of a vacant building near Zwolinski's campaign