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
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)therefore, they probably got their dirty ugly hands in many right wing unconstitutional organizations still owning politicians. That said YAY
otohara
(24,135 posts)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)which means ALEC and it's work is no longer hidden and unknown.
Smilo
(1,944 posts)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.
sinkingfeeling
(51,279 posts)these goppers remind me of Star Gate SG1 mortal enemy the Goa'uld. If the host dies, jump into another.
bayareaboy
(793 posts)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.
sinkingfeeling
(51,279 posts)qb
(5,924 posts)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)ALEC must have changed their name because I am sure beyond any doubt Walmart has not changed their politics...
jwirr
(39,215 posts)DippyDem
(658 posts)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)As most in this thread have deduced, I'm fairly positive that ALEC is quickly renaming itself and calculating methods of improved secrecy.