Walmart's Alice Walton has pumped more than $350,000 into the Hillary Victory Fund

[Mufaddal]

Clinton’s 2016 campaign has numerous ties to Walmart. Most recently, Walmart heir Alice Walton donated $353,000 to the “Hillary Victory Fund,” which is backing her presidential run, a Walmart lobbyist held a Mexico fundraiser for her and the consulting firm of her campaign’s top strategist lists Walmart as a client. Before that, Clinton was a member of Walmart’s board in the late 1980s and early 1990s. As PBS Frontline documented, that was when Walmart began offshoring its supply chain to China. A recent study by the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute (EPI) estimated that Walmart’s shift to China ended up eliminating more than 300,000 manufacturing jobs in the United States.

Walmart’s move was aided by President Bill Clinton’s successful push to grant China permanent normal trade relations status, thereby reducing tariffs on Chinese imports. That initiative was rammed through Congress in 2000 with the public backing of Hillary Clinton, who declared that the deal “is in the interests of America and American workers.”

Hillary Clinton’s support for the China agreement followed her public support for the North American Free Trade Agreement. EPI estimates that overall, the trade deficits that followed NAFTA and the China pact ended up eliminating nearly 4 million American jobs — most of which were in the manufacturing sector.

Full article: http://www.ibtimes.com/political-capital/despite-walmart-ties-support-free-trade-hillary-clinton-touts-commitment-2323480

[Thinkingabout]

1. Good, all donations are appreciated.

[virtualobserver]

2. just as anti-union now as they were when Hillary was on the Walmart board.

Hillary loves her some corporate money.

[Thinkingabout]

4. It is just like the money raised at the fund raisers Sanders attended, did you check to

see if all these companies are union friendly?

[UglyGreed]

6. Deflection number 1001,111111111111111111111111

[Jackie Wilson Said]

52. Do we know how much money Walton has given to any GOP candidates?

The really wealthy and greedy usually support both parties to one degree or another.

[UglyGreed]

53. I'm sure they buy

influence where ever they can find it.....

[virtualobserver]

7. companies that hate unions don't donate to Bernie

[CorporatistNation]

43. Thanks Muddal!

BOOOOMMMM!

[Armstead]

19. I think you should take some classes in Proportionality 101

You lack a sense of it

[Thinkingabout]

20. Attacking others is not going to win discussions. Why the diversion?

[Armstead]

22. Because your comparison lacks a sense of proportion

Accuse Sanders Of not being a team player...But when he play on thevteam you criticize that too.

And its not even close to 1 percenters pouring money into Clinton's campaign coffers.

[Thinkingabout]

24. have a nice day, I dont need your insults.

[malokvale77]

29. But yet you think we should except your insults? nt

[greymouse]

45. Let's see, that would be one party funhdraiser in what was it 2007

and Bernie got 4 or 5 figures total from all donation sources?

Nice try, though.

[Thinkingabout]

46. No, more than one year, in fact they have one in Martha's vineyard

And Florida each year. This has been a multiple years events.

[Kelvin Mace]

55. Asked an answered in dozens of previous posts

Bernie was there to help raise money for the party as a whole. If he had refused, he would have been criticized for not "helping Democrats".

[Thinkingabout]

62. Oh, really.

[UglyGreed]

5. How about donating some of her

wealth to Walmart's employees???? Give them a living wage instead of instructing them how to file for government benefits????? Oh of course that is pie in the sky rainbows and unicorns in this world of ours.....

[cascadiance]

10. And American taxpayers have to pay for Walmart employees' poverty benefits...

... because of Alice Walton and her family stealing both wages AND taxpayer money from us when they UNDERPAY their employees. They want someone that will continue to give more corporate welfare to the fraction of 1% and not to the rest of us who they are STEALING money from!

http://www.forbes.com/sites/clareoconnor/2014/04/15/report-walmart-workers-cost-taxpayers-6-2-billion-in-public-assistance/#3a61dbff7cd8

[UglyGreed]

13. Walmart needs that

extra cash on hand for bribes and tea with their BFFs don't you know you silly Sanders Supporter you????

[840high]

31. ..+1

[Skwmom]

37. They've subsidized Walmart labor costs for years. I've complained about this since I saw the true

price of cheap goods.

[Lucinda]

57. Wal-mart pays 9.00 an hour to start now. Well above minimum wage. n/t

[TexasBushwhacker]

61. But they are still cutting hours right and left

No full time hourly employees work a 40 hour schedule except during the holiday season. I have a friend who has worked for them for over 10 years and even he has gotten his hours cut lately. Thankfully a Costco is opening near him and he has applied.

[malokvale77]

30. And to add insult to injury...

my daughter, who works for Walmart, can't put a Bernie bumper sticker on her car. Hillary and any GOP stickers are allowed.

[Peace Patriot]

32. OMG, that is so disgusting!

Petty bullshit like that is so-o-o telling us about the BIG BULLSHIT.

[malokvale77]

38. There will be no descent.

It's the new American way.

[UglyGreed]

40. Holy crap

but Hillary is a progressive??? Something is not making any sense........

[snooper2]

48. Um, sure LOL

I imagine you can prove this "policy"

[Armstead]

18. Yeah who cares about the source of all them bucks.

Dirty money leads to dirty politics...But who cares?

[malokvale77]

28. Pathetic

My daughter works for Walmart.

Any contribution from a Walton family member is bad for Walmart workers.

Walmart workers aren't fond of Hillary Clinton.

[libtodeath]

44. What an insulting thing to say.

[Kelvin Mace]

54. and rewarded in proprotion to their amount

[AzDar]

3. She's so thoroughly compromised...

[Faux pas]

8. I'm sure hrc was

thrilled to take it. Walmart=slave labor. Good going hellary.

[VulgarPoet]

9. No kings, no masters, no plutocrats, no dynasties.

[BernieforPres2016]

11. The Walton family is the richest family and the largest welfare recipient in the U.S.

as Bernie points out in every speech. Alice kicks some of that taxpayer money back to a Hillary SuperPac to keep it that way. Like Hillary said when she was on the Wal-Mart board: "I'm always proud of Wal-Mart."

[SoLeftIAmRight]

12. Alice Walton does not want to burn in Hell.

This has nothing to do with corruption.

[malokvale77]

39. Actually...

Alice Walton doesn't want to pay for anothers death, due to her drunk driving.

[leveymg]

56. And, she's the "liberal" Walton, right?

Wrong. Walmart supporters, along with their candidate, aren't liberal, except in the 19th Century sense.

But, slavery was legal in the 19th Century, and the employment practices of Walmart, and its suppliers, will someday be looked back on with the same disrepute we now view Antebellum Plantation society.

Mrs. Clinton is the worst sort of self-serving corporate lawyer gun for hire. She claims to be a "progressive" friend of the poor and minorities, but is highly paid to keep modern-day slavery in business, and profitable.

[hifiguy]

14. I am CERTAIN no favors will be expected for that.

Uh-huh. You bet.

And people seriously think HRH is opposed to the TPP SHE oversaw?

[Orsino]

15. Goddammit, I don't want to have to hold my nose that tightly. n/t

[senz]

16. Hillary belongs to the 1%, NOT the American people. Not the people.

Walton Family – The Richest Family in the World and Richest Family in America



Walmart underpays its employees so badly they need government assistance to survive.

[TheFarS1de]

21. When I initially read up on them ...

I was disgusted by the way they treat their employee's but the level of government resources they consumed . It is almost theft imo the way they utilise government to increase profit margins , and they accuse Sander's of being a socialist as if it's a bad thing , it's all a sick joke .

[malokvale77]

33. Yes it is sick.

It is not a joke.

Hillary is a member of a society that would think of it as a joke.

[MisterP]

17. well, by and large ...

[Impedimentus]

23. ONLY $353,000 ? That's hardly pocket change to a Walton ...

Hillary can do a lot better than that. She should demand $3,353,000.00 Is the price of corruption depreciating these days?

[DemocraticWing]

25. Alice "Drink and Drive" Walton

Fine company to be in, right there.

[Impedimentus]

27. I hope MADD didn't endorse Hillary

Just as fine company as Goldman Sachs.

[malokvale77]

36. Yeah...

and now they own one of the largest, if not the largest, privately owned properties in Texas.

Alice can drive, in a drunken stupor, for miles and miles and never have to worry about the consequences.

Oh, that's right, she never had to worry any way.

[Nyan]

26. Alice Walton...where did I hear that name before?

Oh. Here it is.

[Fuddnik]

34. Sort of makes you want to picket outside a Malwart with signs that say....

Walmart supports and donates to Hillary Clinton.

Should have a nice negative influence on their Trumpy snd Cruzy customers.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

35. Invested in Hillary. Not donated, pumped, or gave.

[Freddie Stubbs]

41. Good. Proof that Hillary can work with the other side of the aisle

[Skwmom]

42. Heck of a supporter.

http://mic.com/articles/79039/the-untold-story-of-alice-walton-s-dwi-incident#.4naJyRHqZ

[Octafish]

47. Walmart became the biggest company in the world without UNIONs.

They couldn't do that alone. Wish some tee vee debate moderator would ask Jackson Stephens' lawyer.

http://www.truthdig.com/avbooth/item/20080409_the_wal_mart_videos

[Cheese Sandwich]

50. Locking in trade relations with China was a gift to Walmart

PNTR. It let them take over the retail economy.

[Ichingcarpenter]

49. That's our Hillary

accepting money from the rat bastards.

[left-of-center2012]

51. More corporate money for Hillary !!!

[FangedNoumenom]

58. Walmart is the biggest retailer of guns in America.

Meanwhile, Hillary supporters still see fit to attack Bernie on his D- NRA rating. Interesting.

[Mufaddal]

59. Yup.

But it's one of the few things they've got, so just let them have it. (Until/unless Hillary wins the nomination, at which point she will move right on guns for the general election, and subsequently the mental gymnasts will throw her present position deep down into the memory hole).

[arcane1]

60. She's just a masochist who enjoys being told to cut it out n/t