Donations instead of payment: not a solution by any means but at least the crew know that we loved them...Orlova...Orlova
Horn said that the museum was adamant about accepting donations instead of loans and that virtually all of the 35,000 artifacts were permanent.
One would parallel action taken by the Senate last year and allow individual donors to give House candidates $2,000 per election in regulated donations, instead of the current $1,000.
They say it is no coincidence that lobbyists are showing up more often at fund-raising events these days, plying lawmakers with $500 campaign donations instead of $100 dinners.
A Swiss-Icelandic company, Datacell, will process donations instead of PayPal, and the WikiLeaks site shows that Mr. Assange is accepting direct donations into a Swiss bank account held with the financial arm of the Swiss postal service.
The authority, which is a semiautonomous state agency that takes no financing from California's coffers, said it would use private donations instead of public money to cover the project's $18,000 cost.
And, that's why – as much as JP Morgan would like people to focus on the donations instead of the intentions behind them – there is certainly a strong streak of self-interest at work.
Republican staffers said several House Republicans were starting to draw up a bill, similar to one that was defeated in the Senate, that would cap soft money donations instead of banning them.
Hopefully, this renewed effort which sees Google making the donations, instead of consumers, will do better.
