Utah millionaire mounts own Haiti aid operation

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Source: ap

JIMANI, Dominican Republic – When Utah millionaire Jeremy Johnson saw news reports of Haiti's suffering, it wasn't enough to just pick up the phone and donate money.

He mounted his own relief mission.

Johnson began organizing the effort with friends and business partners in St. George, Utah, immediately after the Jan. 12 earthquake. Within three days he was ferrying food, doctors and medicine into Haiti from the Dominican Republic, using two personal jets and helicopters.

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"I am a person who has been blessed," Johnson told The Associated Press this week after arriving at the camp following a long day of visiting isolated communities on the outskirts of Port-au-Prince. "To sit back and relax and send a little money or whatever, it just made me feel ungrateful."

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100122/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/cb_haiti_do_it_yourself_aid

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great job, man.

[cutlassmama]

1. Kudos to him!

[Hawkeye-X]

2. Is he a Mor(m)on?

Hawkeye-X

[jaksavage]

4. Who cares?

Is he black, hispanic, jewish, male, female, straight, gay, well hung, hairless, smoker, pothead, adulterer, global warming denier, republican, democrat, muslim,??? Who friggin cares.

[proteus_lives]

5. Why would that matter?

[Tempest]

7. I for one would want to know

I want to know if at the same time he's giving to Haiti, he gave to and supported the Prop 8 campaign before showering him with accolades.

[bitchkitty]

6. Utah millionaire? probably n/t

[jaksavage]

3. We need

more of that!