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CEOs Rethink Alliances With White House
WSJ ^ | 8/15/17 | Vanessa Fuhrmans

Posted on 08/16/2017 3:33:11 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper

President Donald Trump’s response to the weekend violence in Charlottesville, Va., has sparked a new round of soul-searching in U.S. corporate boardrooms over whether they should keep working closely with the White House.

On Tuesday, the number of members who have withdrawn from a White House advisory council grew to five, and executives including Wal-Mart Stores

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cronyism; fearmongers; grandstanding; tds
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To: TTFlyer

Yesterday we ckecked nearby retailers to find our options since Walmart is no longer a place we’ll shop.


21 posted on 08/16/2017 4:31:47 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam ("Negative people make healthy people sick." - Roger Ailes)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Judging from their FEC records, these CEOS were plants all along...


22 posted on 08/16/2017 4:32:07 AM PDT by mewzilla (Was Obama surveilling John Roberts? Might explain a lot.)
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To: mazda77

A rep from Tyson has no business being there. The company has been corrupt at least as far back as when Clinton was governor. I still will not buy anything with “Tyson” on the label.


23 posted on 08/16/2017 4:35:01 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam ("Negative people make healthy people sick." - Roger Ailes)
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To: Old Yeller

We saw an entire commercial last night, with many people, and not ONE black. (The last lady was “iffy”.) We can’t recall what it was for, though. (We’re old.). Will be keeping an eye out and will patronize them if it’s something we use.


24 posted on 08/16/2017 4:42:54 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam ("Negative people make healthy people sick." - Roger Ailes)
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To: lodi90

Hah. I called him out on it then with the email I sent where I accused him of choosing to virtue signal rather than working on America’s problems & her future.


25 posted on 08/16/2017 5:03:19 AM PDT by JayGalt (Let Trump Be Trump)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Good. Smoke all the snakes out.


26 posted on 08/16/2017 5:33:28 AM PDT by Hyman Roth
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To: MayflowerMadam
We saw an entire commercial last night, with many people, and not ONE black. (The last lady was “iffy”.) We can’t recall what it was for, though. (We’re old.).

Remember when Band-Aids, under pressure, changed their color? ;)

27 posted on 08/16/2017 5:46:09 AM PDT by Does so (The Enlightened Left openly sacrifices "women and children first" on the altar of multiculturalism..)
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To: SoFloFreeper

johnny come lately friends...greedy bastards...if there’s something in it for them and smooth sailing great...but on principle forget it...they are all PUSSIES


28 posted on 08/16/2017 6:08:55 AM PDT by ldish (Have had enough...you??????)
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To: SoFloFreeper

I handed this note to WalMart off to the electronic mailman shortly after I learned of this...

MAKE SURE A COPY OF THIS REACHES THE DESK OF Doug McMillon.

I see where your CEO, Doug McMillon, has criticized the President’s response to the events at Charlottesville. Perhaps Mr. McMillon should keep his political ideas to himself. I don’t recall Mr. McMillon criticizing the previous President’s response to the mayhem caused in multiple cities on multiple occasions by the BLM (black supremacists) crowd. Although the majority of products you sell in your stores are made in Communist China, openly siding with the Antifa/Communists to attack a duly elected President is poor business strategy, however, here lately it seems that CEOs of many corporations have abandoned their job of serving their stockholders and taken up the mantle of social justice warrior. I’ll be watching for Mr. McMillon’s apology and following closely his guidance at WalMart. Let me remind him that his duty is to the shareholder and the proper oversight of their investments. If Doug wishes to enter politics then he should resign his post at WalMart and start kissing babies and shaking hands until then he should shut up and do what he was hired to do.


29 posted on 08/16/2017 6:26:17 AM PDT by 762X51
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30 posted on 08/16/2017 7:04:13 AM PDT by kanawa (Trump Loves a Great Deal)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Knee-jerk reactions in response to the potential for customer complaints. Besides, it’s not like the council was going to accomplish anything. It was a look-good, feel-good photo-op.


31 posted on 08/16/2017 7:07:57 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: OttawaFreeper
"Wal Mart. Isn’t that one of the places where Hitlery started making her big wealthy fortune way back in the Arkancide days?"

Yeah, she claims she's a supporter of Unions, took their donations for her various campaigns, and also took money from a company that has no unions.

32 posted on 08/16/2017 7:39:14 AM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: TTFlyer

So we hate Pennys, Target, Wal-Mart, and Amazon.

Where am I supposed to buy underwear at this point?


33 posted on 08/16/2017 8:02:58 AM PDT by WVMnteer
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To: MayflowerMadam
We saw an entire commercial last night, with many people, and not ONE black. (The last lady was “iffy”.) We can’t recall what it was for, though. (We’re old.). Will be keeping an eye out and will patronize them if it’s something we use.

Was it for tanning beds?
34 posted on 08/16/2017 8:19:06 AM PDT by Old Yeller (Auto-correct has become my worst enema.)
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To: DoodleDawg

You may be right about that.

I would still like to see these posers pay a price for their grandstanding.

Hopefully Trump or consumers or both will find a way to make that happen.


35 posted on 08/16/2017 10:07:38 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: SoFloFreeper
Not soul searching. Just risk-averse executives who do not want to be harassed and boycotted by the left wingers.
36 posted on 08/16/2017 1:14:02 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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