Wal-Mart supports VRA re-authorization
The Hill reports: Continuing its courtship of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC), Wal-Mart is urging President Bush to extend the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
In recent months, Wal-Mart has moved toward a lasting alliance with the CBC, deepening the ties by stressing its legislative influence as the nation’s largest private employer of African-Americans. Wal-Mart CEO H. Lee Scott’s letter, delivered to the White House on Tuesday, is his first follow-up on a productive winter meeting with the CBC.
“I hope that you will stand with me, members of the Congressional Black Caucus, other political and civil rights leaders and countless Americans in supporting an extension of the expiring provisions of the Voting Rights Act,” Scott wrote to Bush, whose reelection campaign received the maximum contribution from Wal-Mart’s political action committee. -- Wal-Mart prods Bush for the CBC
You may download a copy of the letter here. As you can see, it was emailed to me by Daniel Levitas of the ACLU.