Life's too short to watch fat, old girls dance naked from a pole? Will you get out of our lives forever?! m/r
Legislative Idiocy, With a G-String
by Scott McKay May 20, 2016
Louisiana’s stupid “sexist” stripper-statute scuffle.
On Wednesday, as Louisiana’s Republican-majority legislature shambled
down the road toward finishing a session in which it will increase the
state’s budget by a billion dollars and yet perhaps require a special
session next month in order to raise taxes to cover what Democrat Gov.
John Bel Edwards says is a $600 million deficit, an otherwise mundane
exercise in lawmaking mediocrity erupted into a shining moment of
national controversy.That’s because during debate of an uncommonly dopey piece of legislation, SB 468 by Sen. Ronnie Johns (R-Lake Charles) which would outlaw adults younger than 21 from plying their trades as strippers, someone dared, briefly, to commit an act of limiting government.
Rep. Kenny Havard (R-Jackson) offered an amendment to the bill designed as a poison pill, an amendment patently absurd that, in its offering, would have illuminated the absurdity of the bill itself. This was an exercise in courage, mind you, because Johns’ bill — which is advertised somehow as an effort to defeat human trafficking (don’t ask me how, I can’t explain that one) — had sailed through a Senate committee, the Senate floor, and a House committee without a single vote in opposition at any stage of the process.
Havard’s absurd amendment was a humorous one; it would accept the 21-year old minimum age for a stripper but, perhaps in the name of consumer protection, set a maximum age for Louisiana exotic dancers at 28 and a maximum weight of 160 pounds.
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