Treacherous Fallout?
Randy Neal over at Tennviews points to an AP article in which Will Pinkston cites "unrelated issues that frankly complicated things," as the reason that Tennessee has backed out of a deal with Walmart to "undergo an extensive energy audit by the nation’s largest retailer, state and company officials said Wednesday."
Just conjecture here, but I've heard rumors of a fallout over the Nashville Scene article which details a supposed event that took place involving Will Pinkston, Gary Odom, Tom Lee, and an unnamed representative at Walmart.
Pinkston, probably chortling to himself, then promptly pulled out his cell phone and left a voice mail for a friend who also happens to be the Tennessee flack for Wal-Mart. As Pinkston knew, Waller Lansden represents Wal-Mart as well as the May family.
“ ‘Hey,’ ” Pinkston recalls saying in the voice mail message, “I just wanted you to know that Tom Lee and your good friends over at Waller are trying to blow a hole in a tax bill that closes some loopholes for the very wealthy. That money is going to obviously have to come from somewhere else. And for the first time, I heard a legislative leader say that we ought to look to Wal-Mart to get it. Talk to you later.’ ”
Pinkston’s Wal-Mart friend then forwarded the voice mail to Waller Lansden, setting off alarm bells inside the law firm—which was suddenly faced with an obvious conflicting interest between deep-pocketed clients. That led to the next event in this little tale of treachery, when Pinkston says Waller Lansden started spreading the word through Legislative Plaza that Pinkston had been caught on tape doing something nefarious.
One probably shouldn't expect too many representatives of Waller or Walmart to be hanging out at the Wildhorse this Saturday either.
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I remember a story going around in Florida back in the late 90's of a certain state senator being caught on a security tape "spanking" two "ladies" from the local Hooters outside his legislative office one morning around 2 am. It turned out the rumor was false and it was being spread by a fellow state senator who had been friends with the senator for 30 years but after that little episode they never spoke to each other again. One of them died last year and a friend told me to the best of her knowledge they never spoke again and it all happened over a bill concerning you guessed it WAL MART.
Let me be the first to say...Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen is a very smart person. Why would anyone want to give the "blueprints" of the 50 State Capitol Buildings to a 5 & 10 cent store from the Ozarks! Oh! lets not forget that the Walton estate owns millions of shares in company's like First Solar. People in America need to realize jus what got America in this shape..."cheap" yes so-call cheap items from a foreign land and now the largest company in America wants to make everything "green" but at the same time they put 95% made in China in their stores in China and support Chinese export...don't take my word...its on their China web page quote*Wal-Mart firmly believes in local procurement. We recognize that by purchasing quality products, we can generate more job opportunities, support local manufacturing and boost economic development. Over 95% of the merchandise in our stores in China is sourced locally. We have established partnerships with nearly 20,000 suppliers in China. *end quote! Now! if there be 182 country's making items for the world to buy and they have only 5% of the pie in China...duh! This company makes the nice people of China support their currency(yuan) by keeping it in their country working for the people there.... but with the "yuan" going up in value and the US dollar going down...all the foreign items that the American consumer buys thinking it is cheap has went up in price. People...its all about the currency and to keep a currency strong you got to keep it floating around the country you live in so it can work for you. For the past 12 years all them US dollars are being shipped overseas to a foreign bank and with the American worker not making anything for the foreigner to buy the "we the people" have to turn to the "second" largest employer in America(Uncle Sam) to sell "we the people" debt in order to get all them dollars back! 50 years ago a foreigner would had given their left nut for a US dollar or a Hershey's chocolate bar and today the same foreigner has got Uncle Sam and the American consumer by both all the while Hershey is moving the chocolate factory to Mexico. Wakeup! America and think "MADE IN AMERICA" and put the word Washington back in D. C.....Washington had been reelected unanimously in 1792. His decision not to seek a third term established a tradition that is now embedded in the 22d Amendment of the Constitution. Read his Farewell Address of Sept. 17, 1796 and think American made for a change.
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