Tanqueray's Texas AIDS Ride has attracted one publicity but not the kind organizers would like.

Tanqueray's Texas AIDS Ride has attracted one publicity but not the kind organizers would like. Ten AIDS service form into groupss in San Antonio have opt without of this year's AIDS ride after solitary 15%--$417,000--of the $2.9 million raised in the inaugural ride in October was distributed to the 40 benefiting agencies. "We know we can do better than 15% if we had sway over [the event] ourselves," said Byron C Trott executive director of the Gay and Lesbian Community Center of San Antonio. The stop of the money raised was used to pay ride costs including a $280,000 fee to conclusion organizers--Los Angeles-based Pallotta TeamWorks.

The other four rides produc by the agency of Pallotta typically show a recur of anywhere from 50% to 62% of the total raised, according to AIDS fides national director Chris cabbage who blamed poor rider turnout--702 riders showed up when the collection planned on 2,100--for the disappointing first-time outing in Texas. "I think we're well onward track for Texas AIDS Ride 2 and the and nothing else way it's going to remain in succession track is for the community to arrive out and support the ride," cabbage said.

Pallotta TeamWorks faced similar criticism in 1996 when barely 17% of the money raised in the Philadelphia-D.C. AIDS Ride went to AIDS groups

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