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moondust

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Reply to uppityperson (Reply #1)

Sun Aug 27, 2017, 03:06 PM

Aug 2017

the RC and Salvation Army can now spend the big bucks they were going to waste on their lavish bashes at Mar-A-Lago (that they canceled after Drumpf's offensive comments after Charlottesville) on actual disaster relief--as it always should have been. Do people really contribute to them expecting it to be wasted on gilded parties presumably for executives?

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Easy way to help flood victims by giving $10 to Red Cross....here are step by step instructions. [View all] MLAA Aug 2017 OP

WARNING! This money will go into the RC general fund, not nec to the current disaster. uppityperson Aug 2017 #1

Thank so for the clarification. MLAA Aug 2017 #4

Thanks, it was a shock to find this out after my community collected and sent RC $. Preparing uppityperson Aug 2017 #5

Plus... moondust Aug 2017 #9

Here are a couple links with other donation places. Nola and HuffPo uppityperson Aug 2017 #2

Salvation Army is a much better choice. EarnestPutz Aug 2017 #3

Salvation Army is a fundamentalist church crazycatlady Aug 2017 #6

While these 3 statements marybourg Aug 2017 #10

I've never had to fill out any forms to donate via Red Cross lunatica Aug 2017 #8

I think they meant to get services from them uppityperson Aug 2017 #11

I used Paypal to donate lunatica Aug 2017 #7