Walmart and the "Committee for the Preservation of Capitalism"?

EDIT: OK, some of the "kids" do.

http://www.newsmeat.com/fec/bystate_detail.php?city=BENTONVILLE&st=AR&contributor=Walton

Huh? Like it needs the help? Anyone familiar with this charitable group? I wonder what they do...Sponser homeless shelters for surplus humans? Pay for a retired Pinkerton Home?

Truly from the :wtf: files.


PS~ Thanks to this thread http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x1302005
for the heads up:-)

Or it's just a Bush front group to get around the Campaign finance laws.

Capitalism is about small companies duking it out. Not large ones stamping out smaller ones than obsessing to become the only player in the cosmos, giving them more power and control than they even begin to deserve.

...the Mom & Pop place down the street into closing. That's OK but when WalGreens stomps them three years later it's all of a sudden "Wrong" and "Unfair". What about the Mom & Pop place? Was it fair for them when the other "Small Business" killed them? This is very subjective stuff.

To me it's a fundamental flaw in the entire system.

http://www.thescoop.org/clips/weekly102602.html



Asked if PAC fundraising is easier in the majority, Rep. Jim McCrery, R-La., smiled and replied, "I should hope so." His Committee for the Preservation of Capitalism is one of the largest PACs controlled by a member not in the leadership or serving as a full committee chairman or ranking member.

They were in the top 50 PACs for the last election cycle. It looks like it's tobacco money.

http://www.fec.gov/press/20020627pacstats/t50noncon_15mo_cont.html


Top 50 Nonconnected PAC’s by Contributions to Candidates Through March 31, 2002

RANK (COMMITTEE) (CONTRIBUTIONS TO CANDIDATES)

1 PAC TO THE FUTURE $557,500
2 AMERICANS FOR A REPUBLICAN MAJORITY (ARMPAC) $512,855
3 KPMG PARTNERS/PRINCIPALS & EMPLOYEES POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE $505,002
4 DELOITTE AND TOUCHE LLP FEDERAL POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE $466,519
5 KEEP OUR MAJORITY PAC $435,500
6 ERNST & YOUNG POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE $394,409
7 ARTHUR ANDERSEN PAC $350,175
8 PRICEWATERHOUSECOOPERS POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE I $327,280
9 AMERIPAC: THE FUND FOR A GREATER AMERICA $319,000
10 MAJORITY LEADER'S FUND $270,383


38 COMMITTEE FOR THE PRESERVATION OF CAPITALISM $111,000