Taking the Wal-Mart challenge
Dr. Jack Lewin, chief executive officer of the California Medical Association, said today he and other supporters of Proposition 72 will begin taking what he called "the Wal-Mart challenge" beginning Tuesday.
Lewin promised that supporters of the mandated employer healthcare law will show up at Wal-Mart parking lots and other locales accompanied by former Wal-Mart workers to take up a challenge laid down over the weekend by Wal-Mart executive Bob McAdam.
In an interview with the Los Angeles Times published Saturday, McAdam said: "There's no proof that any of our associates are on public assistance. I defy anyone to prove it."
Prop. 72 supporters began airing TV ads over the weekend that cited a UC Berkeley Labor Institute study that estimated California taxpayers spend $32 million a year on healthcare for Wal-Mart employees and their family members who must rely on public programs for their healthcare.
How many former Wal-Mart employees will the Prop. 72 campaign produce? Lewin would say only that it is more than one.
WalMart has one of the worst labor records of any company in America, and is arguably the single worst in the retail sector.
We should probably be thankful that Mr. McAdam has stirred up a hornet's nest with his bluster and provided those of us that think Wal-Mart, and not the taxpayers, should take care of their employees with the necessary motivation to prove once and for all that Wal-Mart provides those low prices to consumers by sucking off the public teat.
If companies are going to do business in California, they should do it on their own dime, without pushing their cost of doing business onto the taxpayers. Prop. 72 will help stop the big business giveaways in California.
Will Assembly candidate Bob Pohl be there at Wal-Mart too ??
He works for a Wal-Mart foundation, has enjoyed excellent, employer-paid health care to cure his cancer, but works for a Wal-Mart foundation and opposes Prop 72 that would allow other, albeit infinitely poorer, workers to enjoy a modicum of health care for themselves that saved his life when he needed the care.
I suppose Pohl would rather complain about his Dem opponent and school budgets rather than explain why he works for a Wal-Mart foundation and is a health care hypocrite.
I know that Nava campaign relies on liars and scare tactics, but let me clear up a few points. Bob Pohl and his wife pay for their own health insurance and that can be cleared up by asking him. He is not being paid by Wal-Mart, any Wal-Mart Foundation and that is publicly available. This ridiculous campaign is trying to explain away why their candidate is losing ground in a heavily Democratic weighted district, even after the money being poured into the campaign, not from locals, but from Sacramento based interests. Talk about hypocrisy?
Seems like every time Nava opens his mouth he sinks.
Who does or does not support Bob Pohl should be a separate blog, as well as what does Pohl really believe.
This is the Wal-Mart connection to Pohl:
Pohl has or does work as the California representative for Education Alternatives Inc., a well-known private firm that takes over and operates schools and is supported by the Wal-Mart owners. Pohl has denied quite a lot, but never that.
The bigger point is about why is Pohl not talking about health care or schools (public or voucher) as an ISSUE, which one would think are important issues for all of California, especially in Oxnard and the rest of the AD35 portion of Ventura County. Pohl benefited from excellent health care that saved his life from cancer. Why does he not think low-wage California workers also should have adequate health insurance too? That is the hypocricy that he needs to explain.
Instead, Pohl and his supporters just complain about the ads by Nava, such as that huge print ad in Ventura Star yesterday.
What does Pohl stand for except his outrage at the Nava ads?? Defensive politics does not win elections. What a waste of Pohl's dwindling money and ad space to complain about Nava instead of telling voters why he is the better candidate for real issues, such as how to fix health care in California. If doing nothing is the best approach for health care while we wait 25 years for the overall economic status to improve statewide, as Pohl apparently believes based on what I have heard him say, then he should tell voters why (but I do not think that is what voters want to hear).
In the meantime, I will be looking for more Herdt articles in Star about how my escalating health insurance costs are subsidizing all the Wall-Mart employees who have no insurance even though the corporation is obscenely wealthy.
Again, the point is for Pohl to convince voters why he is the better candidate, NOT for other bloggers to try to convince me in this forum. However, I would like to read about why Pohl and his support from JobsPAC is not a "Sacramento Special Interest". And reading about how Nava is "losing ground" in this race also would be interesting. Pohl's print ad in Star certainly is not a symptom of gaining ground.
I've managed to save up roughly $77708 in my bank account, but I'm not sure if I should buy a house or not. Do you think the market is stable or do you think that home prices will decrease by a lot?