Just dropped · Trial Balloon · Ep. 189
Navigating the Nonsense
While discussing a bill that would raise the minimum age of exotic dancers from 18 to 21, Louisiana Rep. Kenny Havard (R) briefly proposed an amendment to cap dancers at 28 years old and 160 pounds, the Huffington Post reports.
Not all of Havard’s statehouse colleagues were amused. Rep. Julie Stokes (R) said she had “never been more repulsed to be part of the House of Representatives.”
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Goddard spent more than a decade as managing director and chief operating officer of a prominent investment firm in New York City. Previously, he was a policy adviser to a U.S. Senator and Governor.
Goddard is also co-author of You Won - Now What? (Scribner, 1998), a political management book hailed by prominent journalists and politicians from both parties. In addition, Goddard's essays on politics and public policy have appeared in dozens of newspapers across the country.
Goddard earned degrees from Vassar College and Harvard University. He lives in New York with his wife and three sons.
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