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Walmart's Walton family backing Clinton
washington examiner ^ | September 7, 2016

Posted on 09/07/2016 4:51:05 PM PDT by SMGFan

The heirs of late Walmart founder Sam Walton are backing Hillary Clinton for president.

Collectively, the leading members of Arkansas' Walton family have given about $714,000 to the candidate and the Democratic Party during the current election cycle, federal records show.

The donations are an example of the longstanding ties between the Walton and Clinton families. It is an awkward situation for the candidate, a former Walmart board member, since most of her allies in organized labor and the broader liberal movement detest the Waltons, mainly because of the company's anti-union stance.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Politics/Elections; US: Arkansas
KEYWORDS: ar2016; fundingtheleft; hillary2016; hillaryendorsement; retail; walmart; waltonfamily
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To: SMGFan

It is the old “protection” racket. You pay for protection and we will not kill you.

It might also be called a bribe.


41 posted on 09/07/2016 5:18:00 PM PDT by yarddog (Romans 8:38-39, For I am persuaded.)
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To: Bogie

People argue that tariffs only hurt the consumers. I say that the taxes raised from tariffs should go to replace all the equipment worn out by the Afghanistan and Iraq wars.


42 posted on 09/07/2016 5:18:40 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Only idiot liberals believe that disarming the sheep makes them safe from the wolves.)
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To: SMGFan

She was on the Walton board several years ago, don’t know if she still is.


43 posted on 09/07/2016 5:19:28 PM PDT by itsahoot (GOP says, Vote Trump. But if your principles won't let you, Hillary is OK.)
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To: SMGFan

Good. Now neither Ds nor Rs will shop there.


44 posted on 09/07/2016 5:20:42 PM PDT by EnquiringMind
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To: SMGFan

They’re going downhill...I shop there every other week and it has become less and less practical every time I’ve gone in 2016. I’m just going to stop funding them.


45 posted on 09/07/2016 5:21:43 PM PDT by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51. Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: SMGFan

F@ck Walmart then! Mfers!


46 posted on 09/07/2016 5:23:01 PM PDT by poobear (Socialism in the minds of the elites is a con-game for the serfs, nothing more.)
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To: SMGFan

it is increasingly likely walmart will have to close down more and more stores as the Democratic Party-enabled and inspired thuggery and lawlessness (and just plain pilfery, shoplifting) and assaults increase in frequency.. inside and around more and more walmart stores

so it is bad for WM shareholders for the founding family to be supporting the very politicians that are enabling all the violence and crime at their stores


47 posted on 09/07/2016 5:24:21 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians are not born. They're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero.)
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To: VanDeKoik

UGH!
I get itchy just going in there!


48 posted on 09/07/2016 5:24:31 PM PDT by acapesket (all happy now?)
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To: SMGFan

Clintons and Sam go back a long way this is no surprise


49 posted on 09/07/2016 5:26:08 PM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom)
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To: SMGFan

Great recent article on how Walmart maintains security to an absolute MINIMUM and simply rely on constant POLICE CALLS in order to catch petty thievery —it’s more economical that way.

A lot of rural PD’s indulge it, too, cuz while the total volume of crime is roughly the same, they don’t have to DRIVE AROUND ALL DAY —all the thieves are in the same spot, more or less.

So the medical care for their workers will be OBAMACARE and their security is simply DA COPS.

So their production costs are outsourced to CHINA, and most of their biz costs are outsourced onto the backs of the taxpayer


50 posted on 09/07/2016 5:26:48 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: SMGFan

Hillary’s ties to Wall Mart go way back to the Clinton’s Arkansas days. It’s well documented. I think she was their lawyer for a time and I also think she held a position on the board of directors at some point. When WallMart was starting up in Ark they needed some ‘favors’ from the Clinton’s and I’m sure that their checks to the Clinton’s cleared.


51 posted on 09/07/2016 5:27:27 PM PDT by Bullish (That establishment heads from both sides are exploding over Trump is the very best part.)
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To: SMGFan

can you imagine the dirt the clintons have got on them


52 posted on 09/07/2016 5:28:07 PM PDT by jneesy (I want my country back and Trump is gonna give it to me)
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To: SMGFan
The democrat fascist machine whines and yells about Walmart just like they whine and yell about too much money being in politics. That's been their traditional way to hide just who their allies are and what they really rely on.

They complained mightily about how awful black folks had it, too, at the same time that they were bulldozing neighborhoods black folks worked in and moving them all to huge high rise welfare plantations where they could be more easily monitored and controlled by the select few they made deals with.

It's also no accident that democrat fascists absolutely love Margret Sanger's solution to having too many black folks which is to murder them in the womb if you can't sterilize them.

JMHo

53 posted on 09/07/2016 5:28:11 PM PDT by Rashputin (Jesus Christ doesn't evacuate His troops, He leads them to victory !!)
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To: SMGFan

Well, now they go on double boycott probation!


55 posted on 09/07/2016 5:34:46 PM PDT by griffin
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

I definitely Will Boycott Walmart !

(soon as I find a store
with cheap ammo,
Jack Daniel’s,
Marlboro’s and milk.)


56 posted on 09/07/2016 5:50:16 PM PDT by Big Red Badger (UNSCANABLE in an IDIOCRACY!)
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To: SMGFan

I. Read. Labels. I. Buy. American.

I shop at Walmart, as it’s my ONLY choice, unless I drive 60 miles out of my way. And, I’m not gonna do that.

They’re not 100% evil. Only partly so.

And it’s NOT Sam, it’s his ill-begotten offspring, which is normally the case when Dad does all the work and the slacker kids reap all the benefits another generation or two down the line!

There ought to be a law. ;)


57 posted on 09/07/2016 5:54:52 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set!)
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To: SMGFan
The Clintons have been tight with the Walton's for a long time. Hillary was on the Board of Director's for six years drawing a salary of $18,000 a year, plus $1500 per Board meeting. Makes you wonder how the labor unions could support her, especially with her long history with the company's owners.

Hillary Clinton Was a Walmart Director for 6 Years

58 posted on 09/07/2016 6:15:58 PM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: SMGFan

Globalist support globalists.


59 posted on 09/07/2016 6:48:24 PM PDT by stillfree? (My My My)
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To: SMGFan

Just one more reason not to shop at Wally World. As if any sane person needed another reason.


60 posted on 09/07/2016 6:53:54 PM PDT by AFreeBird (BEST. ELECTION. EVER!)
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