Posted by Dan Eggen on October 23, 2012 at 4:47 pm
Wal-Mart heir bucks family, donates to pro-Obama super PAC
The latest financial disclosures from the liberal Priorities USA Action super PAC contained one particularly surprising contribution: $300,000 from Samuel Rawlings Walton, grandson of the famously conservative founder of Wal-Mart.
The Sept. 10 gift stands in contrast to several other 2012 donations from Walton clan members, who have spent big in favor of conservative and Republican causes for years. An uncle and two aunts, for example, gave five- and six-figure donations to super PACs backing Republican nominee Mitt Romney and one of his GOP challengers, Jon Hunstman Jr.
One of the aunts, Alice Walton, was even more active in Republican politics in years past, doling out $2.6 million in 2004 to an independent group that ran ads in support of incumbent George W. Bush.
My bad: he gave $300,000.
The original report I saw, now amended, has it at $300K.
Enjoy your ObamaWorld.
HEIR and NOT BOSS as you indicated..Well, the company’s boss, a son of Sam Walton, But you already knew that.
Does SR Walton have any involvement with the company, or is he just a rich idiot 2nd generation heir of the guy who actually made the money? I see he’s on the board of the Environmental Defense Fund.