The FEC Has Finally Gotten Back To Us On Wal-Mart’s Election Activities

What will this website decide to do next. Maybe you could appeal and have the elections results over-turned. I would really pursue this thing a teach that dirty WM a lesson they will never forget.  Once the website over-turns the election results and the nation has to re-vote people will starting taking you a little more seriously.

I think the union model of forcing people to ‘volunteer’ to work the Democrats phone banks actually works better as far as influencing the outcome of an election.

Eugene Scalia
STATUS: IN
DATE: 6/9/05
POSITION: Legal counsel to defend Wal-Mart against whistleblower claims.

Wal-Mart executives thought hiring well-known labor lawyer Eugene Scalia was a smooth move, but the negative attention generated by their new associate has been more of a headache.

Like his father, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, Eugene is recognized for his ultra-conservative views and legal work. He is closely associated with the right-wing Federalist Society and is law partners with Ted Olsen, who served as George Bush’s chief counsel during the 2000 Florida Recount.

Scalia has “distinguished” himself in legal circles by ridiculing worker claims of repetitive stress injuries as “junk science.”

Working inside and outside of government, Scalia has consistently fought for the rights of large corporations over working Americans.

During his 10 years as a labor lawyer, Scalia managed to represent only two workers. At the Department of Labor, Scalia undermined whistleblower protections and supported the Bush Administration’s efforts to limit overtime pay.

Scalia’s actions at the Labor Department even concerned several of his fellow Republicans. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) sharply criticized Scalia’s application of whistleblower protection provisions of federal law: “If this is the way the Labor Department intends to enforce the new law, then most corporate whistle-blowers won’t be protected.”

Unsure of his chances of being confirmed by the full Senate, the Bush Administration gave up on Scalia when his recess appointment expired in 2003.~~~~~~~~~~~~WMW

NOTE: The Labor Dep’t during the last Bush administration[headed by Elaine Chao,Mitch McConnell’s wife],was a veritable union busting tool. Interesting that a Supreme Court Justice’s son was selected to represent WalMart.

Wonder what loyalists are STILL in positions of power at the FEC?

Note: Sourcewatch website has an ESPECIALLY interesting professional bio on Eugene Scalia.

Incidentaly,Scalia is representing Bernie Madoff’s partner, Frank Di Pascale.

Always good and interesting info from you ddrb, welcome back.

While the Bush fungus dies off administratively it is noteworthy that the Obama effort is going after corporate parking of profits outside the United States. WalMart created some type of subsidiary in the Cayman Islands no doubt like the REIT in Delaware or the subsidiary in Italy to evade Illinois state taxes.

Repatriation of overseas profits is not going to enjoy the ‘Bush 5.25% corporate free loader rate’ under the Obama interest of tax fairness. WalMart is like organized crime, it must be dealt with by way of a comprehensive plan.

WalMart- Ask not what your corporate tax free loaders can do for America, ask only why you are now part time at 20 hours a week and fired for no reason before you are eligible for health care benefits.

SDV: Thanks for the gracious compliment and warm welcome back,also.

Once again, I will reiterate the importance of the Tax Justice Newtork website for continuously updated ,global updates on offshore tax havens and tax avoidance scams.

I would be remiss if I didn’t also encourage all to visit the Komisar Scoop site,too.

Lucy Komisar has been a pioneer in the field of tracking corporate tax offshoring for years now.Her “Game as Old as Empire” outlines the earlier financial heist/meltdown during another Bush administration in the 80’s-namely , BCCI .

Superior info,imho.

BTW,here’s a recent,related story that may be of interest:

Union (AFL-CIO) Calls For Foreign Profits Tax To Fund Health Reform

By Martin Vaughan

WASHINGTON (Dow Jones)--U.S. labor unions are joining a push by the Obama administration to raise taxes on the foreign profits of U.S. multinationals.

An AFL-CIO official will urge a Senate committee Tuesday to use the proceeds from Obama’s tax changes - as much as $210 billion - to help fund an overhaul of the U.S. health-care system.

“In order to get health reform done, we cannot rely solely on savings in the system; we will need to identify additional revenues,” according to prepared testimony from Gerald Shea, assistant to the president at AFL-CIO.
“Beyond these savings, we urge the committee to consider broader tax reform options, including those put forth by President Obama,” including taxes on the overseas income of multinationals, he said.

Shea is slated to testify before the Senate Finance Committee on Tuesday about options to finance an ambitious overhaul of the health-care system to lower costs and provide coverage to 50 million uninsured Americans.

Shea said other options to pay for health care include raising the tax rate on the returns of private-equity and hedge-fund managers; repealing the “last-in, first-out” method of accounting; and letting the capital gains tax revert to 20%, all of which have been proposed by Obama.

Read more: http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20090511-719786.htm…