Political Fix and “Saturday Night Live”

Uncategorized | July 24, 2009

By David Stokes | Read Time 1 minute

I was blessed with a pretty good memory, especially for words and numbers — less so for faces. So when I read this headline at the Post-Dispatch‘s “Political Fix” blog, it instantly reminded me of this “Saturday Night Live” skit from 20 years ago. My memory had it that John Goodman was in the sketch, not John Larroquette, but other than that, I was right on.

Perhaps I confused the two because they each have a St. Louis connection. If you can tell me what that connection is in the comments, you will win my praise (but nothing else).

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David Stokes

David Stokes is a St. Louis native and a graduate of Saint Louis University High School and Fairfield (Conn.) University. He spent six years as a political aide at the St. Louis County Council before joining the Show-Me Institute in 2007. Stokes was a policy analyst at the Show-Me Institute from 2007 to 2016. From 2016 through 2020 he was Executive Director of Great Rivers Habitat Alliance, where he led efforts to oppose harmful floodplain developments done with abusive tax subsidies. Stokes rejoined the Institute in early 2021 as the Director of Municipal Policy. He is a past president of the University City Library Board. He served on the St. Louis County 2010 Council Redistricting Commission and was the 2012 representative to the Electoral College from Missouri’s First Congressional District. He lives in University City with his wife and their three children.

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