I bet he votes Democratic -- Secret Santa reveals his identity

[TechBear_Seattle]

Secret Santa reveals his identity

KANSAS CITY, Mo. - For 26 years, a man known only as Secret Santa has roamed the streets every December quietly giving people money. He started with $5 and $10 bills. As his fortune grew, so did the gifts. In recent years, Secret Santa has been handing out $100 bills, sometimes two or three at a time, to people in thrift stores, diners and parking lots. So far, he's anonymously given out about $1.3 million. It's been a long-held holiday mystery: Who is Secret Santa?

But now, weak from chemotherapy and armed with a desire to pass on his belief in random kindness, Secret Santa has decided it's time to reveal his identity.

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His holiday giving started in December 1979 when he was nursing his wounds at a drive-in restaurant after getting fired. It was the second year in a row he had been fired the week before Christmas.

"It was cold and this car hop didn't have on a very big jacket, and I thought to myself, `I think I got it bad. She's out there in this cold making nickels and dimes,'" he said.

The story continues at http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061118/ap_on_re_us/secret_santa_revealed

[MissWaverly]

1. the saddest thing about this is

He made millions on cable and now he's worried he won't have enough to pay for his cancer
treatments.

I wish him well, he certainly helped a lot of people. Just the average person, so much
of the money that's supposed to help the poor gets siphoned off by no bid contractors and
the jackals who feed off the poor w/o ever really helping them.

[TechBear_Seattle]

3. Why won't his insurance pay, though? That's what left me wondering

Why even have insurance if it won't pay for treatments? I mean, speaking of jackals....

[MissWaverly]

4. well, here's what I believe that some of the latest stuff

is not covered by insurance and if you are given a choice like, drug X or plan your funeral,
who wants to sit down and say I want the chrome handles.

[MissWaverly]

2. Hey, DU we have got to put Santa on the Greatest Page

[williesgirl]

5. k&r - what a wonderful person.

[alfredo]

6. His campaign giving shows he is a Democrat

http://www.campaignmoney.com/political/contributions/larry-stewart.asp?cycle=06

[progressoid]

7. A couple more sories about him...

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2001/12/20/usat-acov-secret-santa.htm#more

http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2004/Dec-22-Wed-2004/business/25526649.html