2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumWhat inspired Hillary to join the board at Walmart?
Was she stocking shelves one day and thought to herself I should run this place?
dflprincess
(28,079 posts)Duckhunter935
(16,974 posts)Simple
Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)Baobab
(4,667 posts)Easy money, maybe. Friendship with the Waltons also, I've read.
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)and given that William Clinton was running for everything in that state, it made perfect sense for HRC to cultivate the Walton money and support.
Skink
(10,122 posts)The Clenis is on track to be gov Walmart is gonna need things to get done.
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)That might cut into the Walton wealth. They are only worth more than the bottom 43% of Americans after all.
pmorlan1
(2,096 posts)and money.
Rosa Luxemburg
(28,627 posts)Kip Humphrey
(4,753 posts)imagine2015
(2,054 posts)840high
(17,196 posts)CK_John
(10,005 posts)SwampG8r
(10,287 posts)Any type of.proof that any previous or subsequent governors wife/wives sitting on walmarts board?
madamesilverspurs
(15,805 posts)that her motive was nefarious, sinister in every respect, providing an opportunity for deep research in preparation for darkly evil paid speeches she would deliver decades later. How else to prepare for a run for the highest office in a country you seek to destroy?
............yes, it's that sarcasm stuff................
Armstead
(47,803 posts)She and Bill were both on the make for money and power, and didn't much care who helped push them forward
Skink
(10,122 posts)The HRC crowd knows we got em.
IdaBriggs
(10,559 posts)on their Board for her in 1986. By 1991 she was paid $64,500 for that year alone, and given the use of a Walmart private jet for Bill to fly and campaign on, as well as nice donations for his campaigns. She also served on two other company boards. When she left Walmart, her position was not replaced.
During this period, Walmart was aggressively anti-Union and the Governor did nothing to change this. After he became President, he signed trade agreements that made it cheaper to manufacture and import inexpensive Chinese imports, which very much has benefit the Walmart bottom line.
The Governor's wife was an attorney, and the Governor of Arkansas was very low paid. She was a very good investment for them and the "pay to play" was well begun.
Next week, Hillary and the "profitable prison connection" -- yep, another happy success story for rich people/not so much for America.
Armstead
(47,803 posts)Sorry, got a little carried away with your epic serial
JonLeibowitz
(6,282 posts)Baobab
(4,667 posts)nt
Armstead
(47,803 posts)and building up a power base
cherokeeprogressive
(24,853 posts)Skink
(10,122 posts)Like a few thousands a plate. Or wash rinse then contribute.
leveymg
(36,418 posts)SwampG8r
(10,287 posts)So she was probably answering ads on craigslist and lucked out
Skink
(10,122 posts)Lots of cleaning positions. Don't ask me how I know.
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)CobaltBlue
(1,122 posts)Has this been addressed by The Hillary Clinton Group?
silvershadow
(10,336 posts)from a President, and they found just their man...and his wife. It would later be seen, by any standard, as fortuitous to the company.
w4rma
(31,700 posts)But after top surrogates asked Obama to help retire Clinton's campaign debt, amounting to more than $22 million, he asked many of his campaign bundlers to chip in to help his former rival.
http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/278074-clinton-to-take-hard-line-with-sanders-say-allies
lostnfound
(16,183 posts)Lots of them are employed because of Walmart.
http://www.law.harvard.edu/programs/lwp/NLC_childlabor.html
According to a National Labor Committee 2006 report, an estimated 200 children, some 11 years old or even younger, are sewing clothing for Hanes, Wal-Mart, J.C. Penney, and Puma at the Harvest Rich factory in Bangladesh.
The children report being routinely slapped and beaten, sometimes falling down from exhaustion, forced to work 12 to 14 hours a day, even some all-night, 19-to-20-hour shifts, often seven days a week, for wages as low as 6 ½ cents an hour. The wages are so wretchedly low that many of the child workers get up at 5:00 a.m. each morning to brush their teeth using just their finger and ashes from the fire, since they cannot afford a toothbrush or toothpaste.
The workers say that if they could earn just 36 cents an hour, they could climb out of misery and into poverty, where they could live with a modicum of decency.