He couldn't get Mattress Mack to budge.
"I didn't like his bull's rush approach," said Jim "Mattress Mack" McIngvale, Gallery Furniture owner and local philanthropist. "Everything has to happen in the next 24 hours and you have to come up with the money."
Paul wanted McIngvale to help finance the liftoff of a 747 full of medical supplies and professionals to help survivors of the tsunami in southeast Asia. McIngvale said he was put off by Paul's aggressive sales pitch.
In the end, McIngvale wouldn't donate to Paul's Global Peace Initiative, though he is spearheading other efforts to help tsunami-destroyed regions.
Paul's trip to the tsunami region was delayed for more than a week by funding woes and then a fuel system problem on Global Peace Initiative's 747. The jumbo jet, loaded with medicine and other relief supplies
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