Hillary Clinton was a Wal-Mart Director for 6 Years

[FreakinDJ]

In 1986, Sam Walton, the founder of Wal-Mart, was under pressure to appoint a woman to the company’s 15-member -all male- board of directors. So, Mr. Walton asked a young lawyer, Hillary Rodham Clinton, who just happened to be married to the governor of Arkansas at the time, where Wal-Mart is based, to be the sole female member of the board.

During six years (1986 -1992) as a member of the Wal-Mart board of directors, Hillary Clinton remained silent as the world’s largest retailer waged a major campaign against the labor unions seeking to represent store workers.

John Tate who was one of Clinton’s fellow board members, was leading Wal-Mart’s anti-union efforts. Tate was also Wal-Mart’s executive vice president and served on the board with Clinton for four of her six years. Tate favorite phrase was, as he admitted himself, “Labor unions are nothing but blood-sucking parasites living off the productive labor of people who work for a living.”

According to an ABC News report, published in 2008, Clinton appears in videotapes of the stockholder meetings where she never appears to defend the role of labor unions. On the contrary, the tapes show Clinton in the role of a loyal company woman. “I’m always proud of Wal-Mart and what we do and the way we do it better than anybody else,” she said at a June 1990 stockholders meeting.


http://www.progressivepress.net/hillary-clinton-was-a-wal-mart-director-for-6-years/

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[Avalux]

1. Ouch. That one hurts. n/t

[FreakinDJ]

5. Proving the Clintons have been peddeling "Political Access" to Corps for decades

[DURHAM D]

2. Did BS have a job? nt

[PonyUp]

7. Yes he did. Bernie was elected to Congress in 1990. n/t

[CBGLuthier]

8. Yeah and none of them were thinly disguised bribes.

Sanders attended Brooklyn's James Madison High School and then went on to Brooklyn College. After a year there, he switched to the University of Chicago. Sanders became involved in the Civil Rights Movement during his university days. He was a member of the Congress of Racial Equality, also known as CORE. With CORE, Sanders participated in a sit-in against the segregation of off-campus housing in 1962. He also served as an organizer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. After finishing college in 1964, Sanders lived on a kibbutz in Israel before settling in Vermont. He worked a number of jobs, including filmmaker and freelance writer, while his interest in politics grew.

[DURHAM D]

14. So what job did he have in 1986?

I am just curious about his actual work history before he was elected to office at the age of 40-41. Or maybe it was 51 before he got a paying job as I don't know if the mayor's job paid a salary.

[Vote2016]

3. Wow! Did not know that.

[Thinkingabout]

4. She worked on getting women promoted and she promoted "Buy America", two issues important

to me. BTW, working on women's issues did not start or stop with her time on Walmart board.

[FreakinDJ]

6. She only got the job because Bill was the Govenor

and the Waltons needed him to pull their sleazy shit

[Thinkingabout]

9. Yea, probably the same way Jane got her job at Burlington College, Bernie was

mayor in Burlington at one time and he was in Congress when she got the job.

[DURHAM D]

15. Well her husband didn't do a good job of protecting her

from being fired.

[Kang Colby]

10. Hillary helped run one of the most successful corporations in the world?

Now, talk about a liability.

Hillary helped run one of the most successful corporations in the world....Bernie Sanders' fairy tale policies would run our economy into the ground. This isn't a political liability for HRC. Nice try. No free pizza for you.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

12. Wal-Mart may be successful in some peoples' eyes...

But if they are, it's because they do it on the backs of the people who work for them.

I consider that a first-class liability.

Senator Sanders' policies are not fairy tales. They are rooted in common sense.

[UglyGreed]

11. I often wondered if Walmart

had anything to do with Bill's decision to reinstate China's most favoured nation after Tiananmen Square....

http://tech.mit.edu/V114/N27/china.27w.html

[FreakinDJ]

13. Back when they were still pedaling the lie

Many major American businesses see even greater potential in Chinese markets, expecting China to become a massive purchaser over the next decade of the phones, electronic gadgets and thousands of other products made in America.

LOL - What is the trade deficit now