Pat Boone and Wal-Mart: Ain't That a Shame [1]
Submitted by Diane Farsetta [2] on
Working Families for Wal-Mart, a new nonprofit group "partly funded by the Bentonville-based retail giant [3]," has "a mission to support Wal-Mart Stores [4] Inc." and "famously wholesome singer Pat Boone [5]" is a member. Working Families is getting media help from The Herald Group [6], a PR firm [7] established by "three DC PR execs, including two Bush Administration [8] officials," according to [9] O'Dwyer's. The firm identified Bishop Ira Combs Jr. as Working Families' leader. Bishop Combs said, "Some friends I worked with on the 2004 Bush campaign [10] phoned me and asked me if I knew about any good things Wal-Mart was doing in my community. I said Wal-Mart is supplying jobs that may not pay a union wage but they pay twice the minimum wage. They asked me if I would be part of this group." Another Working Families member, former Marine Captain Courtney Lynch, "estimated that her consulting firm [11] got 7 percent of its revenue from Wal-Mart this year."