Chris Lavoie

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Chris Lavoie born January 13, 1969, in Pomona, California) is the Executive Producer of the Stephanie Miller show.

[edit] Personal life

Chris was raised in Claremont, California and Hampton, Virginia. He currently resides in the Hollywood area of Los Angeles. He is unmarried, a state he claims to be the result of "working 15-hour days" as a radio producer for Stephanie Miller and prior to that his employment at KFYI radio, a conservative talk radio station in the Phoenix, Arizona market.

[edit] Political views

The Stephanie Miller Show has a progressive viewpoint on political issues. Chris shares many of the liberal viewpoints of the other hosts on the show but has expressed some beliefs that have earned him ridicule and made him the butt of many jokes from both Miller and his other co-host, "Voice Deity" Jim Ward. These beliefs have led Miller and Ward to rib Chris by calling him a "right-wing tool."

He is opposed to amnesty for illegal immigrants and seems to be against proposed legislation which "tells people how to live their lives".

An example of this is Chris's unwavering support for spanking young children as a form of discipline (a topic that has been brought up on the show). Chris's opinion on the matter is in direct opposition to legislation that had been proposed in California having to do with the state's attempt to ban spanking children under the age of 4.

Chris has very clearly stated that he is opposed to child abuse but Stephanie and some of the show's callers ruthlessly kid him about it anyway, claiming that he is in favor of "beating children". She also goes so far as to link his supposed "support of child abuse" to an instance where Chris accidentally bent his cat's tail in a doorway when he was at home.

Stephanie pokes fun at him by stating that his cat, "Jazz" (short for, "Jazz Paws, Spirit Claws", a variation on "Jazz Hands, Spirit Fingers", a nickname Steph and her crew has given to MSNBC's Tucker Carlson) "will never be the same because of his careless abusiveness".

He has also parted ways with the other hosts in stating that he would have voted for Joe Lieberman over Ned Lamont in the 2006 Democratic primary if he had lived in Connecticut.