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Originally Posted by jack99821 Second, Hillary Clinton is a hypocrite. My mom was very active in Arkansas politics and saw this first hand. During her six(!) years on the board of Wal-Mart, she sat in the corner and allowed anti-union decisions to be made, sexist decisions to be made (which reveals her hypocrisy more than anything else), ageist decisions, the list goes on. Many Wal-Mart employee horror stories have roots in her time on the board. Now she condemns these things? Please!

It's true that Clinton sat on the Wal-Mart board for six years while her husband was governor of Arkansas, where the chain has its corporate headquarters. She was paid about $18,000 a year for doing it. At the time, she worked at the Rose Law Firm, which had represented Wal-Mart in various matters. According to accounts from other board members, Clinton was a thorn in the side of the company's founder, Sam Walton, on the matter of promoting women, few of whom were in the ranks of managers or executives at the time. She also strongly advocated for more environmentally sound corporate practices, board colleagues and company executives noted. She made limited progress in both areas, but she never voiced any objections to the company's anti-union stand, they said. But in 2005 she returned a $5,000 contribution to her campaign from Wal-Mart, citing "serious differences" with its "current" practices.