Curves

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[swilhelm73]

Claim: Gary Heavin, owner and CEO of the fitness chain Curves, supports pro-life causes.

Status: True.

[swilhelm73]

Another good guy apparently to go along with Tom Monaghan of Domino's Pizza and Carl Karcher of Carl's Jr.

[keithtoo]

and the Chick Fil-A guy too!

[So Cal Rocket]

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Contributor	Occupation	Date	Amount	Recipient
HEAVIN, GARY GATESVILLE,TX 76528	CURVES/OWNER	12/12/2003	$5,000	People for Enterprise/Trade/Econ Growth
HEAVIN, GARY GATESVILLE,TX 76528	CURVES/OWNER	6/12/2002	$5,000	People for Enterprise/Trade/Econ Growth
HEAVIN, GARY GATESVILLE,TX 76528	CURVES/OWNER	12/18/2003	$2,000	Sessions, Pete
HEAVIN, GARY MR WACO,TX 76710	CURVES INTERNATIONAL/OWNER	4/17/2003	$2,000	Snyder, Dorothy (Dot) Nelson
HEAVIN, GARY MR WACO,TX 76710	CURVES INTERNATIONAL/OWNER	4/17/2003	$2,000	Snyder, Dorothy (Dot) Nelson

[tagawgrag]

mmmm...Chick-fil-la!!! Oh I wish we had these in New England!!! We are probally to liberal for the CEO.

[Inspectorette]

Curves for Women has been the ONLY exercise program I've been able to stick to. A lot of the women I work with are also members, and we all love it.

It's not geared to the young, Barbie-doll types, it's more for regular women. Curves members are mostly women in their thirties and up, all shapes, sizes, and colors.

Glad to see that Mr. Heavin is a good guy - I'd hate to have to give up Curves.

[11th Earl of Mar]

He knows its bad business to abort your future customers, a lesson the teachers union never learned.

[Miss Marple]

I know you use Curves, so I thought you would like to know this!

[Mears]

There was a thread on another website (liberal),that really thought this was funny.

Curves is for working class folks and is located in strip malls,said the poster.

He/She sounded like the classic limousine liberal,a real snob!!!!

[John H K]

Getting a Curves franchise might not be a bad business move, as the house I used to live next to had a woman who had started some.....a constant stream of additions, building pools, buying Jaguars the last few years....

[cyborg]

One just opened up in my neighborhood. I figured he had to be a prolifer since I noticed a lot of churchladies rave so much about it *LOL*

[antaresequity]

Women who go through pregnancy often need to work off a few pounds after child birth...

I'm not questioning his sincerity...just point out the consistency of his decision.

[johnfrink]

Out of curiosity, what's the website you used for that donation history search?

[So Cal Rocket]

http://www.opensecrets.org

[LasVegasMac]

My wife has been going for about a year, loves it. Several of the girls at work have joined her and like it as well.

Glad to find out that the owner has his head on straight.

LVM

[ninergold3]

The reason that so many churchladies go is because the head of the corporation is a Christian. No club is allowed to be open on a Sunday either.

There was a post on another site I frequent and they were moaning that the only music played was contemporary Christian. "It's only a half hour" is what I was told when I asked that my club lay off the rap junk and put in some good old country music.

[Inspectorette]

We were on vacation last week, and my sister-in-law and I went to a Curves in beautiful Anacortes, Washington.

They had a little notice posted regarding the music that is played - that if anyone was uncomfortable with the lyrics and the content, to please notify the manager, and that it would be changed.

I have been surprised, but not offended, that at my local Curves, some of the music CD's have contained some overtly religious lyrics.