I don't get it

doctor evil

Why lobby against a donation to charity just because it involves something that someone may not agree with?

Is it part of wide spread tactics? ala go for all avenues.

Fair play for the money raised. Goal should grow a pair and had some cheek in trying to get it after turning it down.

It is the last three paragraphs.

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2010/0209/1224264028949.html

Last week, the Irish Council Against Blood Sports successfully lobbied to prevent the charity Goal from accepting a donation from bookmakers’ Boylesports.

The “significant” sum had been raised from sponsored “charity bets” at the Irish Coursing Club’s annual meeting in Clonmel, Co Tipperary. Goal later agreed that it would, after all, accept the money for its relief work in Haiti following the earthquake.

Goal’s change of heart came too late as Boylesports had by then chosen an alternative charity, the Retired Greyhound Trust.

Discodog

Maybe someone in Goal didn't like the idea of money that has been collected at the cost of animal suffering. Goal is a humanitarian organisation & has every right to accept of refuse donations as it sees fit.

Anyone has the write to lobby. After all it is only the act of expressing one's view. Goal had the right to listen to the lobbying or ignore it. The lobbying may of been a case of clarifying what was involved in collecting the money. As an organisation that operates abroad Goal may be concerned about where some of it's money comes from.