Christmas Eve 1952: I was sound asleep when an enormous hulking fellow gently shook my shoulder. I can still remember how the bed sagged as I woke and he slowly sat down next to me. He had a colossal grin but said only one thing that I can remember, “I am going to put this chocolate Santa on your bed stand, so that in the morning, when you wake, you will know that I was really here.”

     It was a thrill that lasts to this day. In fact, every Christmas Eve I can be found in a deluxe red and white suit and flowing snow white beard that has been tugged upon by every child I have known for dozens of years, as I have left countless chocolate Santas to the most appreciative audiences one could ever wish for.

     Helping to deliver Vote Smart is not so easy but it is a chocolate Santa on the grandest of scales.
 
     Wishing you all the happiest of holiday seasons and Vote Smart a wonderful New Year!

Richard Kimball
Vote Smart President 
 
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