Evil WalMart

[pasadenaboy]

I hate these MoFos

Wal-Mart tries end run around balky city

INGLEWOOD, Calif. -- Stung by strong opposition in nearly every corner of the country where it proposes a large-scale development, Wal-Mart is taking a new tack here: bypassing local regulators and going straight to voters for permission to build a mega-store.
By introducing the ballot measure, which goes to voters April 6, Wal-Mart hopes to avoid several major obstacles to building its so-called supercenter: environmental reviews, traffic studies, public hearings and especially obstinate municipal officials who until now had the final say.


http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=2027&ncid=2027&e=3&u=/chitrib_ts/20040112/ts_chicagotrib/walmarttriesendrunaroundbalkycity

[Coldgothicwoman]

1. And there's a good chance the 'initiative' will pass...

Just another example of people voting against their best interest to save 3 cents. :(

[brainshrub]

2. This is going to back-fire on their greedy asses so bad!

I can't wait!

[dmr]

3. So, elected officials are now special interest groups?

WTF? Why bother electing city council members, mayors and so forth to represent us?

Once again, I'm having nightmares of Diebold and friends. Amazing how big business manipulates and circumvents the system.

"Having 200 people at a meeting saying they don't want Wal-Mart is not reflective of the 50,000 people in Inglewood who do want us," said Wal-Mart spokesman Peter Kanelos. "The community is not against us. a special interest group trying to limit competition."

[Don_G]

4. Yep

I sent a few letters to my local government and they seem to believe they can't get a Costo in my area unless there's 16 acres of undeveloped land in the fringes of the county where the workers who need the benefits can't get to it nor the shoppers that benefit can get there easily.

They've comdemmed a old shopping mall on a major bus line to make way for yet another Wal-Mart with a Home Depot next door.

[proud patriot]

5. They are doing the same thing here

We have a Ballot measure in March ..

We better stop it .

[proud patriot]

6. I think we'll beat it

check out the letters to the editor on this
in the local paper http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/news/opinion/7483254.htm

[canuckagainstBush]

7. Direct Democracy

The free-for-all of direct "democracy" works its magic again. :scared: