Sure, I met people doing it, but as a funeral director, you can't solicit, so I don't think it really had that much effect on my business.
Partly by soliciting so many opinions, and perhaps because of the autonomy he has given so many subordinates, who like any set of humans do not always think in synchronization, the mayor has seen his plan coalesce much more slowly than those of previous administrations.
That's a menacing way of saying that the group writes letters to prisoners and solicits donations so they can buy food from the prison commissary.
Upper West Side residents complained about the brigades of single men who loitered outside the club, soliciting "dates" so they could enter the couples-only establishment.
I've seen the emails they've sent out on me where they were soliciting contributions so that they could shut down that gun-grabbing senator from Pickens, which is where I'm from.
I refuse to be rushed into a decision, and as a rule, I believe, if they need to solicit you so aggressively, there must be better places to stay.
Yet these were the same women who "cruised the bull" - i.e. tried soliciting cops so they would be returned to the jail, to their friends inside and a sense of familiarity.
I must admit my own attention was wandering until this week, when a Brooklyn Assemblyman was indicted for attempting to solicit bribes so he could pay lawyers to defend from charges of taking bribes in a previous corruption trial.
That will most likely benefit Mr. Romney, whose ability to solicit money has so far been unmatched.
"He had been soliciting donations from so many people, and had received so many no's, that I think he was kind of stunned when we offered our help".
