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In reply to the discussion: The big lie: "Hillary is an economic conservative." [View all]DanTex
(20,709 posts)40. She did only make a $15K salary at Wal-Mart.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/20/us/politics/20walmart.html?pagewanted=all
The $64,700 she made in 1991 was for all her board work combined. It's surprising that you missed that fact given that the very article you are citing said "she was on tho others besides Wal-Mart's" in the very sentence before that number. I guess hatred can be blinding sometimes.
The other number, which is the $50-$100K of Wal-Mart stock that she owned, wasn't compensation for being on the Wal-Mart board. That was stock that she bought on the open market, and then profited when it went up in value. As I said in my last post, at this point basically anyone who has any kind of retirement plan owns Wal-Mart stock also.
Mrs. Clinton was not Mr. Waltons first choice for a woman on the board. That honor belonged to an executive at Nordstrom, the upscale department store. But Nordstrom opposed its employees sitting on a competitors board, so Wal-Mart turned instead to the 39-year-old Mrs. Clinton. They offered her about $15,000 a year for her time, generally four meetings a year.
The $64,700 she made in 1991 was for all her board work combined. It's surprising that you missed that fact given that the very article you are citing said "she was on tho others besides Wal-Mart's" in the very sentence before that number. I guess hatred can be blinding sometimes.
The other number, which is the $50-$100K of Wal-Mart stock that she owned, wasn't compensation for being on the Wal-Mart board. That was stock that she bought on the open market, and then profited when it went up in value. As I said in my last post, at this point basically anyone who has any kind of retirement plan owns Wal-Mart stock also.
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I believe this lie is at the heart of the GOP's attempt to get the left to attack Hillary
Trajan
Jun 2015
#8
It's no secret that the GOP is trying to get people to attack Hillary from the left.
DanTex
Jun 2015
#12
and dismissing HRC's speech on the the sacred nature of male-female only marriage,
cali
Jun 2015
#35
Good point. Edited OP to add that. And of course her work over the decades on healthcare.
DanTex
Jun 2015
#16
She served on the board of Walmart while they waged a radical war on US workers and small business
Cheese Sandwich
Jun 2015
#11
See, that's the kind of crazy-talk that the GOP is trying to get progressives to buy into.
DanTex
Jun 2015
#14
A good point that article brings up. In the 80s while Clinton served on the board,
DanTex
Jun 2015
#24
There's really nothing noteworthy in the article except how awesome Hillary is!
Cheese Sandwich
Jun 2015
#26
Hillary was at Walmart for personal power and profit, gaining mightily from Walmart's war on people
Cheese Sandwich
Jun 2015
#31
..the Clintons depended on Wal-Mart's largesse not only for Hillary's regular payments as a board...
Cheese Sandwich
Jun 2015
#44
So how do you feel about all the progressive economic policies she's supported over the years?
DanTex
Jun 2015
#46
I actually like Hillary a lot but her supporters should admit she is a champion corporate crony.
Cheese Sandwich
Jun 2015
#47
Except that she's not. Trying to pin everything wrong with Wal-Mart on the 6 years in the
DanTex
Jun 2015
#55
Not at all. Just that there are limits to what one person can accomplish on a 15-person
DanTex
Jun 2015
#51
Where in the article did it mention "Buy America" and promoting women, seems the article ran circles
Thinkingabout
Jun 2015
#53
I don't see that, either a unified GOP or Secretary of State Clinton as inevitable.
Agnosticsherbet
Jun 2015
#52
People pay her to give speeches, yes. Actually, paid appearances are a pretty common
DanTex
Jun 2015
#25
She Is Heavily Funded By Wall Street - She Will Not Bite The Hand That Feeds Her
cantbeserious
Jun 2015
#48