Women in Politics: Sen Barbara Boxer (D-CA)
Wal-Mart, the Democratic Party, Sens Barbara Boxer and Blanche Lincoln may not know it but they are helping me with a series of posts on Women in Politics. Some credit should be given here to the Washington Post and writer Jeffrey H Birnbaum for providing this enlightening story of how Wal-Mart will mend its ways. Do you suppose since the Dems are credited here with harrassing Wal-Mart over employee treatment that the strategy would be for Wal-Mart to give lots of money and make nice with Dems to get more publicly funded healthcare for their employees? Without the Dems harrassing them of course.
Stanford Matthews
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Wal-Mart, the Democrats’ New Friend
By Jeffrey H. Birnbaum
Tuesday, April 3, 2007; Page A21Wal-Mart has taken its lumps lately, especially from the Democratic Party over its treatment of employees. So the company has been courting the new majority on Capitol Hill by doing a lot of the standard stuff: hiring Democratic executives and donating more to the campaigns of Democratic candidates. Its political action committee has given 49 percent of its funds to Democrats this year, up from 32 percent in last year’s election……
….Last Tuesday evening, the world’s largest retailer sponsored a fancy reception in the Capitol’s LBJ Room off the Senate floor to celebrate a yet-to-be-completed documentary about female members of the chamber called “14 Women.” The film’s three producers include Mary Lambert, the older sister of Sen. Blanche Lincol n (D-Ark.), and Nicole Boxer, the daughter of Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.).