‘Tell Ken Fisher To Stuff It’

September 28, 2017 by Kerry Pechter

A highlight reel of the Insured Retirement Institute conference in Palm Beach, Fla., this week would surely feature Julius Caesar “J.C.” Watts, the former Oklahoma Sooners quarterback who in 1995 became the first black U.S. congressman elected south of the Mason-Dixon Line since Reconstruction.

Appearing on a panel discussion about politics, Watts recalled how, weeks after he was elected, his car was stopped for no apparent reason in Norman, Okla., and blocked by six police cruisers. After making his point, he deftly ended the story on a note more patriotic than angry and drew an explosion of applause from the audience of annuity industry executives.

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Originally Posted at Retirement Income Journal on September 28, 2017 by Kerry Pechter.