Probably not. Santa Claus is a Christmas fairy tale for children. Yet at the Idaho Freedom Foundation on December 18, 2020 there is an article by Wayne Hoffman titled Dear Santa. His wish is for one gift – an ‘unbiased’ Idaho news reporter. His opinions are way out on the rabid right fringe, so his notion of who would be unbiased is suspect. Another article of his titled A letter to Santa appeared on December 19, 2019.
Wayne occasionally has mentioned that he is Jewish (and thus would not have grown up with Santa as his holiday tradition), as he noted in an article on July 1, 2018 titled Rendering personal assistance to people reflects who we are as Idahoans:
“Many of my Mormon friends know that I am Jewish, and (in addition to trying to convert me!) they’ve taught me much about the generosity that is the heart of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It’s one of the features of the church I admire most.”
How about the Idaho Freedom Foundation? The What We Believe section in their About web page doesn’t have a clause that mentions Santa Claus. They and Wayne are not above spreading other fairy tales though. On June 22, 2020 I blogged about Will the Idaho Legislature convene a “Red Dawn” special session on June 23, 2020. They had distributed a fairy tale legal opinion claiming the Idaho Legislature could convene itself without the governor.
An image of Santa was adapted from a December 7, 1904 Puck magazine cover at the Library of Congress.
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