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Newsjock

(11,733 posts)
Thu May 31, 2012, 09:37 AM May 2012

Wal-Mart ending membership in conservative group (ALEC)

Source: Reuters

Wal-Mart Stores Inc, the world's No. 1 retailer and the biggest seller of firearms in the United States, is dropping out of a U.S. conservative advocacy group that has been a lightning rod over voting and gun laws.

Wal-Mart said late Wednesday it is suspending membership in the American Legislative Council (ALEC), which the retailer joined in 1993.

... "Previously, we expressed our concerns about ALEC's decision to weigh in on issues that stray from its core mission 'to advance the Jeffersonian principles of free markets,'" Maggie Sans, Wal-Mart vice president of public affairs and government relations, said in a May 30 letter addressed to ALEC's national chairman and executive director.

"We feel that the divide between these activities and our purpose as a business has become too wide. To that end, we are suspending our membership in ALEC."


Read more: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/wal-mart-latest-leave-conservative-043342372.html

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Wal-Mart ending membership in conservative group (ALEC) (Original Post) Newsjock May 2012 OP
Walmart and Koch Suckers are in bed together Iliyah May 2012 #1
Suspicous otohara May 2012 #2
no doubt this is a self-serving move rurallib May 2012 #3
I am suspicious too............ suddenly Smilo May 2012 #4
They're probably forming another such group since ALEC was 'outed'. sinkingfeeling May 2012 #12
LOL Iliyah May 2012 #5
There is no reason not to be suspect of ... bayareaboy May 2012 #6
Do the 'Jeffersonian principles of free markets' include bribes? sinkingfeeling May 2012 #7
Another sign Walmart is distancing itself from its wingnut origins. qb May 2012 #8
I believe Walmart is a founding member of ALEC Bandit May 2012 #9
Wonder why - they usually do not give a sh-t what happens to Ameica. jwirr May 2012 #10
That is a surprise for me. DippyDem May 2012 #11
the fix is in. They_Live May 2012 #13
I'd rec, but it's WalMart. nt DCKit Jun 2012 #14

Iliyah

(25,111 posts)
1. Walmart and Koch Suckers are in bed together
Thu May 31, 2012, 10:00 AM
May 2012

therefore, they probably got their dirty ugly hands in many right wing unconstitutional organizations still owning politicians. That said YAY

 

otohara

(24,135 posts)
2. Suspicous
Thu May 31, 2012, 10:03 AM
May 2012

when did Walmart ever do anything that wasn't self-serving?

They sell guns, and would probably prefer their employees didn't vote. (for Democrats)

rurallib

(62,346 posts)
3. no doubt this is a self-serving move
Thu May 31, 2012, 10:16 AM
May 2012

which means ALEC and it's work is no longer hidden and unknown.

Smilo

(1,944 posts)
4. I am suspicious too............ suddenly
Thu May 31, 2012, 10:32 AM
May 2012

all the members of ALEC are abandoning it.

Can't help feeling they have something else brewing and it is not going to be good for America.

Iliyah

(25,111 posts)
5. LOL
Thu May 31, 2012, 10:51 AM
May 2012

these goppers remind me of Star Gate SG1 mortal enemy the Goa'uld. If the host dies, jump into another.

bayareaboy

(793 posts)
6. There is no reason not to be suspect of ...
Thu May 31, 2012, 11:01 AM
May 2012

Wall Mart or ALEC.

They will go back to being the same anti labor factions that they are. So is Wall Mart now accepting to it's workers views except on it's side of the spectrum. And I don't go to Wall Mart, but I don't think that Mr Jefferson shops there either.

qb

(5,924 posts)
8. Another sign Walmart is distancing itself from its wingnut origins.
Thu May 31, 2012, 11:35 AM
May 2012

Walmart actually bent to HRC pressure to offer transgender employee protections.
http://idahoagenda.com/2011/09/29/transgender-protections-to-discrimination-policy/
I learned at the 2012 Multicultural Forum in Minneapolis that they have also implemented PFLAG-sponsored LGBT ally training in some locations.
We still need to ramp up the pressure on sweat-shops and other human rights issues.

Bandit

(21,475 posts)
9. I believe Walmart is a founding member of ALEC
Thu May 31, 2012, 11:37 AM
May 2012

ALEC must have changed their name because I am sure beyond any doubt Walmart has not changed their politics...

DippyDem

(658 posts)
11. That is a surprise for me.
Thu May 31, 2012, 01:23 PM
May 2012

I never thought that Walmart would ever leave ALEC. I believe it's due to consumers pressure and the competition between Walmart and Amazon.com. The competition between those two is quite severe. Amazon recently left ALEC week. It makes sense but still surprising.

They_Live

(3,222 posts)
13. the fix is in.
Thu May 31, 2012, 04:25 PM
May 2012

As most in this thread have deduced, I'm fairly positive that ALEC is quickly renaming itself and calculating methods of improved secrecy.

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