Hillary Rodham Clinton: Wal*Mart, Lafarge, and TCBY Director, Canny Corporatist

[CorpGovActivist]

As more news continues to emerge about the corporate defense work and corporate directorship stints that Hillary Rodham Clinton did as part of her now-famous 35 Years, and as more and more primary documents are provided and shown online, in print, and on broadcast outlets (including both TV and radio), http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=4242078&mesg_id=4242078">you may want to consult this list for your local media outlets, to insist that your local affiliate picks up the news.

The finances of newsfeed and revenue sharing agreements often come into play for local affiliates. If they hear from you, the viewer, they will be more likely to pick up the AP Newswire, Reuters, or related network affiliate story, and pay the price. It's all about eyeballs and ratings. It is especially effective to let them know if you've never called and asked to see a story run on the local affiliate before, and if you tell them that you know for a fact that it is running in a larger affiliated media market (e.g., NBC-4 in Washington, DC).

Fight the machine, by understanding it.

- Dave

[CorpGovActivist]

1. Obama Supporters: A Very Significant Kibitz

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=4251208&mesg_id=4251208">It's well worth the trip, and someone might even have an extra set of copies/leftover press kit.

- Dave

[FrenchieCat]

2. Bookmarked!

[CorpGovActivist]

28. Glad It's Helpful n/t

[maq-az]

3. Is this sick or what?

Are you actively asking us to smear our own? Or are you asking us to do work for RW?

[CorpGovActivist]

4. I'm Asking You...

... to do your homework before going into the ballot booth.

- Dave

[Levgreee]

9. This is part of Hillary's 35 years of experience

why not examine and learn about it? That is what her campaign has ran on.

[CorpGovActivist]

17. Bingo!

She claims to know how to fix the economy.

Let's examine the source of that claimed street cred.

Wall Street Cred, that is.

- Dave

[City Lights]

19. Yes, it's sick. That's why I'm not voting for her. eom

[CorpGovActivist]

27. It Is, Isn't It? n/t

[Helga Scow Stern]

5. What, if any, connections like this does Obama have?

They are both voting for the next Latin American NAFTA treaty, I heard here the other day. How is that any different? I don't want this to be a one-sided attack if both have compromising corporate positions and connections.

[hayu_lol]

6. Worth checking out:

Michelle Obama is associated with Treetop which has strong links to Wal-Mart. Her compensation: salary plus stock options is in the $300,000 range yearly.

Not mud slinging because Obama already tossed the Wal-Mart Bomb at Hillary. I doubt if Hillary ever made any $300K from Wal-Mart.

[CorpGovActivist]

7. What Is the Publicly-Stated Amount...

... that Hillary was paid for her corporate directorship stints, and what is your source?

- Dave

[KittyWampus]

11. Walmart owner Mary Walton donated MILLIONS to the Clinton Library

[CorpGovActivist]

31. Shhhh! That's a Secret the GOP Operatives Don't Already Know...

... you're gonna spoil it for all of us.

- Dave

[CorpGovActivist]

46. .

[rinsd]

10. Obama does not matter, sliming Hillary is all that counts.

[CorpGovActivist]

44. All That Experience...

... logically means there's more to examine.

Two sides; same coin.

- Dave

[CorpGovActivist]

34. His FEC Filings...

... are a matter of public record, and can be found at FEC.gov.

- Dave

[ElsewheresDaughter]

8. Bill was Gov. of Arkanas when Hillary sat on the board of Walmart and

Sam Walton was still alive....and WalMart was still a good store...and the President of the Retailer Union 0defends Hillary's record!

.so give it up please

Although Hillary Clinton severed her ties with Wal-Mart years ago (she sat on the board when Bill Clinton was Governor of Arkansas, but now refuses to accept contributions from the company), Barack Obama raised the issue of Clinton's past relationship with retail giant during the debate in South Carolina.

Now, hours before another Democratic debate, Clinton supporter Stuart Appelbaum, who is also President of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, has sent out a public statement defending her record:

...

“We know from experience that Hillary shares our belief that Wal-Mart and other
retailers have a moral responsibility to respect every worker's right to
organize. She has stood with us and has been and continues to be supportive of
our efforts to call attention to Wal-Mart's business practices that hurt
working families. And she has lent her voice to calls for the giant retailer to
change its ways.

“Over the last seven years American workers and their families have been
brutalized by corporate greed and unprecedented government indifference. Based
on our experience we are convinced that, as president, Hillary would work from
day one to restore workers rights and the institution of collective bargaining.

“Some politicians only stand up for labor at election time, but we know from
experience that Hillary will be there for workers and their unions long after
the ballots are counted.”

[Levgreee]

12. What's your evidence of this? Here's my evidence that they weren't a good store.

"Labor unions are nothing but blood sucking parasites..." -John Tate

Was an executive and member of the board, at the same time as Hillary, responsible for keeping unions out of Wal-Mart.

"one of the reasons we want to buy America, is because we love America..." HRC

while they still got most of their products from foreign manufacturers, including sweat shops

Hillary denies knowledge of the sweat shops

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video_log/2008/01/abc_news_looks_into_clintons_w.html

[CorpGovActivist]

43. I Notice...

... you didn't get an answer.

- Dave

[KittyWampus]

13. So that's why Walmart owner Mary Walton donated millions to the Clinton Library?

[CorpGovActivist]

24. You're Impertinent.

I like you.

- Dave

[Radical Activist]

38. No it wasn't a good store.

Sure, Walmart got worse when Walton died. But it was always a union buster and it was destroying small businesses across America when he was still alive too.

[CorpGovActivist]

42. Gauzy Corporate Histories...

... were once all the rage.

Diving into the actual archived SEC filings? The new rage.

- Dave

[BenDavid]

14. Obama's wife and Wal-Mart

Excerpt:
Mrs Obama earned $51,200 for her work with Treehouse's board last year, on top of
the $271,618 salary she was paid as a vice-president of the University of Chicago Hospitals.
She also received 7,500 Treehouse stock options, worth a further $72,375, as she did the
previous year, when she banked a $45,000 salary from the company.

The apparent contradiction between Sen Obama's political calculation to join the
Wal-Mart-bashing lobby, and his wife's profitable role with a company that makes money
from Wal-Mart, is being closely scrutinised by "opposition" research teams.


But if they point out that Obama's wife make big bucks from Wal-Mart,
that'll be just one more racial slur of which the Clintons are guilty, right?

[CorpGovActivist]

15. Keep Digging!

[Levgreee]

16. 1. there are tons of suppliers, there is a large difference between being a supplier

and on the board of Wal-Mart.


2. Are we judging by the spouses records, again? Then Hillary has some explaining to do about that Kazakhstan mining fiasco.

[CorpGovActivist]

21. The Clintons Keep Changing the Rules, So...

... play by your own.

- Dave

[hayu_lol]

18. Many thanks Ben,

I called it Treetop...my mistake. Seems like the Obama's have done very well with their Wal-Mart connection.

[CorpGovActivist]

20. MAD Constraint Falls Apart...

... when We the People play free agent.

Don't count on the tactic of, "If we smear the Obamas, we'll get a pass on the primary docs showing the Clintons' packed purses."

Count on that to lose this go-around. Count on it.

- Dave

[ElsewheresDaughter]

22. this post deserves its own thread...please start a thread with it?

[CorpGovActivist]

23. Yes, Please, Pretty Please, Do n/t

[Qutzupalotl]

25. Treehouse Foods is not Wal Mart.

There's a big difference between working for a supplier and sitting on the board.

But I don't see this as a big issue either way.

[CorpGovActivist]

26. Let Them Yammer...

... this ends poorly for them.

Let them talk, on the record.

Make sure to get it all down, too.

- Dave

[hulklogan]

29. Why shouldn't the first lady of Arkansas be on the board at WalMart?

The Hillbashers love turning a molehill into a mountain.

[CorpGovActivist]

30. I Missed the Sarcasm...

... emoticon there. You can't be serious.

- Dave

[wintersoulja]

32. conflict of interest?

because its unethical?

[CorpGovActivist]

33. I'm Inclined...

... to believe the responder thought the sarcasm was implicit.

- Dave

[hulklogan]

40. There was no sarcasm implied

I don't see the problem. It's not like she was Governor at the time.

Oh, that's right. The Hillbashers think Senator Clinton is demon spawn and everything she does or did or thinks about doing is an evil intention.

[CorpGovActivist]

41. Laura Bush - Director of Halliburton - George Bush, Governor of Texas; Discuss...

... without resorting to hypocrisy.

- Dave

[DaDooRonRon]

35. You, my good man, are missing the point

It is not what she does, it's how tactful she dances around it!

You should read the debate threads - Hillary has gotten in a "zinger"!!

This is all that matters these days.

The whole voting for the war thing and corporate tie-ins pales in comparison to the "zinger" she just gave to Obama!


"I want to say one word to you. Just one word."

"Zingers."

Coo-coo-ca-choo, Mrs. Corporate, Lockheed turns its greedy eyes to you.

Hillary "War Yes War No War Maybe" Clinton - proudly made in the U.S.A. out of entirely foreign financed parts.

[CorpGovActivist]

36. I Don't Play in the Kiddie Pool Anymore, and I'm a Strong Swimmer...

... so let them splash and make sandcastles.



- Dave

[DaDooRonRon]

37. "Look daddy, I made a fundaising letter out of depleted uranium"

Thud.

[CorpGovActivist]

39. Mission Accomplished, Junior, Mission Accomplished n/t

[CorpGovActivist]

45. The Lafarge Story...

... could end up eclipsing the Wal*Mart one, once MSM outlets are "ready" to run them.

Fact-checking is time-consuming, when convenient.

- Dave