Report: Walmart Tries to Hide Right-Wing Donations

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In recent years, Walmart has done much to mitigate its image as a big box super villain, even as it faces complaints from one of the largest gender discrimination lawsuits in history and countless other allegations of exploitative labor practices.

Part of Walmart’s public image makeover has been to cast itself as a politically moderate company that donates as much to Democrats as to Republicans.

After it was revealed that in 2008 Walmart officials held meetings telling managers that voting for Barack Obama would mean “inviting unions in,” the company apparently launched a media initiative to show it was donating as much or more to Democrats in the 2010 elections. The move to cast itself as supportive of Democrats appears to be part of the company’s push to open more stores in urban and higher-income areas with more progressive and more highly educated residents.

http://www.inthesetimes.com/working/entry/11479/report_walmart_tries_to_hide_right_wing_donations/

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And for more on Wal Mart:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKv6RcXa2UI


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1. WalMart supports progressives the same way FOX does. A few high-profile donations to some Dems

centrists and they get to claim that they donate to both parties. Total bullshit as all the really big unpublicized money goes to rightwing thinktanks and, for FOX, devoting all their 'news' programming to attacks against all progressive policy and politicians.

[Blue Owl]

2. Too big to hide their fat corporate ass

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