Posted on 03/12/2006 10:55:53 PM PST by smoothsailing
Hillary turns quiet on Wal-Mart ties
By Beth Fouhy
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published March 13, 2006
NEW YORK -- With retail giant Wal-Mart under fire to improve its labor and health care policies, one Democrat with deep ties to the company -- Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton -- has started feeling her share of the political heat.
Mrs. Clinton served on Wal-Mart's board of directors for six years when her husband was governor of Arkansas. The Rose Law Firm, where she was a partner, handled many of the Arkansas-based company's legal affairs.
She had kind words for Wal-Mart as recently as 2004, when she told an audience at the convention of the National Retail Federation that her time on the board "was a great experience in every respect."
But in recent months, as the company has become a target for Democratic activists, she has largely steered clear of any mention of Wal-Mart. Late last year, Mrs. Clinton's re-election campaign returned a $5,000 contribution from Wal-Mart, citing "serious differences with current company practices."
As Mrs. Clinton sheds her Arkansas past and considers a 2008 presidential run, the Wal-Mart issue presents a dilemma: how to reconcile the political demands she faces today with her history at a company on which many American consumers depend but many Democratic activists revile.
"The interesting question is not just Hillary Clinton's history at Wal-Mart, but why it's delicate for her to talk about Wal-Mart," said Charles Fishman, author of "The Wal-Mart Effect," a book about the company's impact on the national economy. "Plenty of Democrats denounce Wal-Mart, but there are also plenty of people who need it, love it and rely on it."
When Wal-Mart's founder, Sam Walton, tapped Mrs. Clinton to be the company's first female board member in 1986, Wal-Mart was a fraction...
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What a tangled web we weave...
Oh, this is cool; this is at least twice I've read about her ties to Wal-Mart in the last three or four days!
And those are just the reporters.
A "for the morning" WalMart PING...........
The Clintons have certainly weaved a few webs in their time that's for sure. The only problem is they always catch other in them. Somehow the Clintons always escape the web.
The Crusade against Wal-Mart is ridiculous. Of course, it's mainly just snobbish coastal elite trash who like to turn their noses up at the lower-class rabble and jeer at a company that has succeeded without catering to the elite like most Fortune 500s do.
And yes, they're just as insular as any other bumpkin. And generally a lot less friendly.
I'm not a huge fan of shopping at Wal-Mart. Seems like I find almost what I'm looking for, but not exactly every time I'm there. But I want to go back every time I hear these lefties go on the attack simply out of spite.
Gee, can anyone say 'conflict of interest?'
ping
Gee Hillary, say it ain't so? And your law firm worked for WalMart too? Can you recall all of the wage discriminaton lawsuits filed aainst your former client back then? And all of the healthcare claims they denied then? Must have been a different board member named Hillary Clinton that made the comments about the WalMart workers back in the 80's I guess. Oh my, how you have changed!
This is really old news. She was also on the frozen yogurt company boaard Tbyi or whatever it is. My memory is not working to well this morning.
The Clintons are all about money and power. They want money for the power it gives them. They leverage their power to get more money.
They always have been and always will be trash.
No, I disagree. I think she is a BITCH. She lies with dogs. At least Wiccans have a code of ethics...
Bill and Hill took money from the Chi Coms, Walmart's biggest supplier, so why not Walmart?
And the enviro-loonies probably don't know that Hill was on the board of Freeport-McMoran Chemicals, one of the biggest polluters on the planet. The Clintoons only standard while in Arkansas was: Show me the money.
BTTT
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