Coo coo! Coo coo! And Minister Boycotted Santa Claus!
Ho, no, no!
FRANKLIN COUNTY REPUBLICAN PARTY
101 WEST NASH STREET
P.O. BOX 909
LOUISBURG, NORTH CAROLINA 27549
(919) 496-1469
www.FranklinNCGOP.com
March 24, 2008
We Kid You Not!
Berger, Allen to Sponsor Grant
Workshop
Coo coo! Coo coo! And
Minister Boycotted Santa Claus!
Ho, no, no!
Sen. Doug Berger and Rep. Lucy Allen
It's bad enough that Democratic Sen.
Doug Berger and Rep. Lucy Allen want to waste more of our tax dollars with a
grant workshop to give out more tax-paid grants.
But get this. The Rev. Curtis
E. Gatewood, one of the presenters at the grant workshop, boycotted Santa
Claus because he said it was "slavery to commercialism."
We encourage everyone to attend this grant workshop (and bring your Cocoa Puffs)
and ask some of the following questions to Berger, Allen and Rev. Gatewood:
1. As a taxpayer, can I apply for tax-paid grant money to pay for my high taxes?
2. If I apply for the grant money, will the Rev. Gatewood ban Santa from coming
down my chimney?
3. Can I get about $50,000 and do whatever I please and not pay it back?
Contact Berger, Allen or Gatewood if you plan to attend:
From the March 22, 2008 Franklin Times:
Grant Writing
There will be a grant writing workshop for the 7th Senatorial District on
Thursday, April 10, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., at the Vance-Granville Community College
Civic Center in Henderson. The workshop will be sponsored by state Rep. Lucy
Allen (representing Franklin County), Rep. Michael H. Wray (representing Vance
and Warren counties), and state Sen. Doug Berger. Presenters will be the Rev.
Curtis E. Gatewood, Leon Gatewood, Floyd W. Jones and Dr. Tyrone Eaton. Lunch
will be provided. If you plan to attend, please RSVP one of the following by
April 4: Allen, (919) 733-5860 or email
Lucya@ncleg.net; Berger, (919) 715-8363 or email
Dougb@ncleg.net; or Wray, (919) 733-5662 or
email Michaelw@ncleg.net.
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Janice Frink Brown
Washington Afro-American
12-09-1995
Local ministers answer question: Should African Americans boycott Santa?.
Recently, a minister in Durham, N.C. the Rev.
Curtis E. Gatewood, who
is also president of the Durham NAACP branch called for a boycott of "Santa
Claus."
The minister along with about 60 members of the Durham NACP are urging Black
parents to celebrate Christmas for what it really represents, "the birth of
Christ" rather than spend hundreds of dollars on expensive gifts, an act he
calls "slavery to commercialism."
According to the minister, nationally, about $400 billion of the money earned
by retailers this time of year, comes from the African-American community.
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