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Yes, an honest-to-goodness clown: the kind with a red rubber nose who throws pies and performs magic tricks. Thirty years ago, Lough graduated from Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Clown College, and he has toured on and off with the Greatest Show on Earth and a circus in Japan. That’s where he met his wife, Rie Sekine, also a clown and now his campaign manager.
One of Lough’s bits involves a renegade toupee, a gag that has a real-life historical precedent on the House floor: A congressman once grabbed another’s hairpiece during an 1858 brawl over slavery.