An Attempt to Shut up Wal-Mart

Posted on November 7, 2006

From California, we read:

“A state senator and two Congressional leaders have voiced their dismay over Wal-Mart involving itself in the race for Antioch City Council.

Sen. Tom Torlakson, D-Antioch; and U.S. Reps. Ellen Tauscher, D-Alamo, and George Miller, D-Martinez, argued this week that the retail giant is simply trying to buy a vote on the Council and advance its own business agenda.

“It’s a bully tactic,” Torlakson said. “They’re trying to buy the election and bully the process. What they did is legal, but it’s an issue the voters of Antioch should look at very carefully when such a huge corporate entity comes in and tries to strong-arm local elections and the democratic process.”

The comments come after the national chain spent $50,722.01 on fliers and other materials supporting candidate Manny Soliz.

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Spending $50,000 to help a candidate get his message out is trying to “strong-arm local elections and the democratic process”? A very strange view of the democratic process, it would seem.

Or perhaps they meant the “Democrat process”, where labor unions are allowed to spend millions but nobody else is supposed to. If Wal-mart is “strong-arming the democratic process” with a $50,000 donation, the unions must be gang-raping it!

Above post crossposted from Tongue Tied

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One Response to “An Attempt to Shut up Wal-Mart”

kerwin_brown on November 8th, 2006 6:40 am

It is a strong arm tactic and it is an attempt to buy votes but this is common in our election system. Look at the size of Hillarie’s war chest which she then used to strong-arm other federal elections in New York State.