We must stop Wal-Mart’s outrageous behavior now.

[Omaha Steve]

We must stop Wal-Mart’s outrageous behavior now.

As you may remember, late last year Wal-Mart formed its own right-wing front group to try and defend the company. Wal-Mart called the group, Working Families for Wal-Mart, even though it had no working families, was funded directly by Wal-Mart, and is being run out of the same office as their public relations war room.

Since then, this group has recruited a cadre of some of the dirtiest and most extreme right-wing operatives with ties to Karl Rove, the New Hampshire phone jamming scandal and the Swift Boat Veterans. And, following Karl Rove’s playbook, Wal-Mart’s operatives immediately launched attacks against leading Democrats and even launched a website personally attacking WakeUpWalMart.com staff.

But, yesterday, Herman Cain, one of the steering committee members of Wal-Mart’s front group and a well-known right-wing commentator, completely crossed the line in a column he wrote by describing Democrats who are standing up, on behalf of working families, and asking Wal-Mart to be a responsible corporation as “Hezbocrats.”

Mr. Cain’s attempts to associate great leaders like Senator John Edwards, Senator John Kerry, Senator Joe Biden, and others with Hezbollah is inflammatory, ridiculous and an insult to every American leader who has stood up and said America’s largest employer, Wal-Mart, should be responsible and pay a living wage and provide affordable health care to its employees.

Please join us in calling on Wal-Mart to immediately apologize to the American people, denounce Mr. Cain’s remarks as outrageous, and ask Mr. Cain to resign from Wal-Mart’s front group:

Unfortunately, Mr. Cain’s remarks come right on the heels of another embarrassing incident for Wal-Mart’s front group when Ambassador Andy Young, the former chairman of Working Families for Wal-Mart, was forced to resign for using derogatory statements to defend Wal-Mart’s business practices.

As some of you may recall, Ambassador Young insulted Asian-Americans, Jewish-Americans and Arab-Americans in trying to defend Wal-Mart’s business practice of putting small businesses out of business.

Both Andy Young’s remark and Herman Cain’s column are a disgusting display of how the politics of personal destruction now runs rampant through Wal-Mart's right wing war room. The tactics of Wal-Mart’s steering committee members are unbecoming of the corporation, leading Wal-Mart down a very dangerous path, and insulting to every American who believes in affordable health care for all, corporate responsibility and living wages.

Please join us in immediately calling on Wal-Mart to apologize to the American people, denounce Mr. Cain’s remarks as outrageous, and ask Mr. Cain to resign from Wal-Mart’s front group:

http://www.wakeupwalmart.com/feature/hezbocrats/

The good news is, while Wal-Mart suffers from these embarrassing incidents and their first profit decline in more than a decade, our campaign to change Wal-Mart is gaining tremendous momentum as we travel around the country on our 2006 Change Wal-Mart, Change America national bus tour. In just the last few weeks, the tour has been featured on the front page of the New York Times, ABC World News, the Washington Post and countless other media outlets.

With over 256,000 supporters all across America, we hope Wal-Mart will use these two incidents as an opportunity to shut down its pointless attack group, end its association with these right-wing operatives, stop its misguided attacks against so many Democratic leaders, and realize that only through real positive change will Wal-Mart become a better company.

Thank you for all that you do,

Paul Blank
WakeUpWalMart.com

P.S. Here is the New York Times article talking about how Democrats are unifying around our campaign for corporate responsibility, health care for all and living wages.

P.P.S. Here is Mr. Cain’s most outrageous remark, “The Hezbocrats, armed with nothing more than Katyusha-grade class warfare rhetoric, descended upon Iowa earlier this month determined to take down Wal-Mart, a company they consider the nation’s largest capitalistic oppressor of the proletariat.” You can read the whole insulting and inflammatory article here:

http://www.townhall.com/Columnists/HermanCain/2006/08/22/hezbocrats_attack_wal-mart



We must stop Wal-Mart’s outrageous behavior now.

As you may remember, late last year Wal-Mart formed its own right-wing front group to try and defend the company. Wal-Mart called the group, Working Families for Wal-Mart, even though it had no working families, was funded directly by Wal-Mart, and is being run out of the same office as their public relations war room.

Since then, this group has recruited a cadre of some of the dirtiest and most extreme right-wing operatives with ties to Karl Rove, the New Hampshire phone jamming scandal and the Swift Boat Veterans. And, following Karl Rove’s playbook, Wal-Mart’s operatives immediately launched attacks against leading Democrats and even launched a website personally attacking WakeUpWalMart.com staff.

But, yesterday, Herman Cain, one of the steering committee members of Wal-Mart’s front group and a well-known right-wing commentator, completely crossed the line in a column he wrote by describing Democrats who are standing up, on behalf of working families, and asking Wal-Mart to be a responsible corporation as “Hezbocrats.”

Mr. Cain’s attempts to associate great leaders like Senator John Edwards, Senator John Kerry, Senator Joe Biden, and others with Hezbollah is inflammatory, ridiculous and an insult to every American leader who has stood up and said America’s largest employer, Wal-Mart, should be responsible and pay a living wage and provide affordable health care to its employees.

Please join us in calling on Wal-Mart to immediately apologize to the American people, denounce Mr. Cain’s remarks as outrageous, and ask Mr. Cain to resign from Wal-Mart’s front group:

http://www.wakeupwalmart.com/feature/hezbocrats/

Unfortunately, Mr. Cain’s remarks come right on the heels of another embarrassing incident for Wal-Mart’s front group when Ambassador Andy Young, the former chairman of Working Families for Wal-Mart, was forced to resign for using derogatory statements to defend Wal-Mart’s business practices.

As some of you may recall, Ambassador Young insulted Asian-Americans, Jewish-Americans and Arab-Americans in trying to defend Wal-Mart’s business practice of putting small businesses out of business.

Both Andy Young’s remark and Herman Cain’s column are a disgusting display of how the politics of personal destruction now runs rampant through Wal-Mart's right wing war room. The tactics of Wal-Mart’s steering committee members are unbecoming of the corporation, leading Wal-Mart down a very dangerous path, and insulting to every American who believes in affordable health care for all, corporate responsibility and living wages.

Please join us in immediately calling on Wal-Mart to apologize to the American people, denounce Mr. Cain’s remarks as outrageous, and ask Mr. Cain to resign from Wal-Mart’s front group:

http://www.wakeupwalmart.com/feature/hezbocrats/

The good news is, while Wal-Mart suffers from these embarrassing incidents and their first profit decline in more than a decade, our campaign to change Wal-Mart is gaining tremendous momentum as we travel around the country on our 2006 Change Wal-Mart, Change America national bus tour. In just the last few weeks, the tour has been featured on the front page of the New York Times, ABC World News, the Washington Post and countless other media outlets.

With over 256,000 supporters all across America, we hope Wal-Mart will use these two incidents as an opportunity to shut down its pointless attack group, end its association with these right-wing operatives, stop its misguided attacks against so many Democratic leaders, and realize that only through real positive change will Wal-Mart become a better company.

Thank you for all that you do,

Paul Blank
WakeUpWalMart.com

P.S. Here is the New York Times article talking about how Democrats are unifying around our campaign for corporate responsibility, health care for all and living wages.

P.P.S. Here is Mr. Cain’s most outrageous remark, “The Hezbocrats, armed with nothing more than Katyusha-grade class warfare rhetoric, descended upon Iowa earlier this month determined to take down Wal-Mart, a company they consider the nation’s largest capitalistic oppressor of the proletariat.” You can read the whole insulting and inflammatory article here:

http://www.townhall.com/Columnists/HermanCain/2006/08/22/hezbocrats_attack_wal-mart

[Freedomofspeech]

1. Just stop giving them your business....

I get so tired of people telling me, 'but I have to go there sometimes'. No, you never have to go there. Drive a few extra miles if you have to, it's worth the gas money not to by their Chinese trash. Quit supporting them, and they will have will problems.

[colorado thinker]

2. Exactly

I have not willingly set foot in a Walmart in over 5 years. Their stores are filled with cheap crap, they are a corporation without any heart, they exploit their workers, and their stores are uninspired and uninteresting. No one "needs" to shop there. Stop spending your time being an American "consumer" and start doing something meaningful, and Walmart will shrivel and die.

[liveinabox]

3. Also agreed.

[Solo_in_MD]

4. You have the power of the purse, use it

Don't go there.

That Wal Mart is pushing back or that there are those who defend them s not outrageous, its to be expected. I know people who love working there. That Wal Mart supports it own defense is not surprising either.

The answer is clear...don't go there and encourage others not to.