Statement on Wal-Mart’s Presidential Voter Education Program
For Immediate Release
Tuesday, August 15, 2006
Washington, D.C. – Wal-Mart Watch communications director Nu Wexler issued the following statement in response to Wal-Mart’s plans to launch a “Voter Education Program” in the early presidential primary states of Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada:
“Wal-Mart’s new voter education program ignores the fact that Wal-Mart Watch has never criticized Wal-Mart shoppers and is focused solely on the company’s business practices. Elected officials at all levels are speaking out about Wal-Mart because their unaffordable health care, poverty-level wages and local government subsidies are important public policy issues. Voters in Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada deserve to know where presidential candidates stand on these issues and how they intend to solve these problems. Wal-Mart’s a lighting rod for political criticism, but it’s because their business practices are legitimate campaign issues.”
- Click here to visit Wal-Mart Watch’s Elected Officials Task Force.
- Click here to learn more about Wal-Mart’s unaffordable employee health care plan.
