P.C. Town Bans Santa Claus

[cjolley]

Doc,
You ought to come here for a while & bask in majority-hood.
Oklahoma is a perfect mirror image of your place.
chuck

[Dr Mordrid]

I am in majority-hood...at least at the State level. Michigan has been Republican for years in spite of the UAW & Teamsters.

At the local level you see more Democrats mostly because the rest of the folks are at work during the off-year local elections

Dr. Mordrid

[Joel]

P.C. Extremists Can Pout: Santa Claus Is Coming to Town

They'd better watch out: The lunatic-fringe town council of Kensington, Md., which has drawn nationwide ridicule for banning Santa Claus from a Christmas event, will find itself inundated by a "million Santa march."

Kensington volunteer fireman Ken Forte has played St. Nick for two decades. "He's a toy maker. He should be here. I bet there will be a couple hundred Santas here on Sunday. We are just livid," he says in today's Washington Times.

One Kensington businesswoman has had calls about a "million Santa march" after a radio station relayed the woeful tale.

E-mails and phone calls from around the nation have condemned the bizarre decision of the four-member council. And most locals are quick to dissociate themselves from the council: Leanne Pfautz, Chris Bruch, Glenn Cowan and Barbara Scharman.

Mayor Lynn Raufaste is to be saluted for opposing the Santa censorship.

After a mere two families in town whined that they found Santa "offensive," those four taxpayer-supported officials decided in October to cloak their intolerance under the guise of patriotism and decreed that the "Christmas" ceremony would boot Santa, supposedly to honor firefighters, police officers, servicemen and postal workers.

But the firemen don't feel a bit honored. Chief Jim Stanton of the Kensington Volunteer Fire Department said his crew was disappointed because they traditionally carry Santa to the Christmas tree lighting in a fire engine.

"We would like to see Santa there and expect to see Santa there," he said of Sunday's ceremony. "And if Santa stops by the fire station, he will get a ride."


The widely scorned council members are now privately griping that the fuss is "out of control" and "blown out of proportion," and they claim they are not banning Santa, the Times reported.


"These are trying times for St. Nick," observed Rep. Bob Ehrlich, R-Md.

He invited Santa to spend some of his unexpected down time visiting throughout the rest of the state "where politics take a back seat during the season of giving."

It's obvious which four Maryland pols will get a lump of coal in their stockings come Dec. 25.

Joel

[orangejulius]

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[cjolley]

I feel better already.
chuck