Remember earlier this year when pressure from union leaders caused State Senate Democrats to return $15k that Walmart had donated? Here we go again. The News looked into the big box retailer's donations in Albany and found that in the past two years it has given $63,500 to state politicians and committees as well as an additional $74,500 to congressional candidates and their PACs. That is a nice jump up from the $43,355 they gave in the previous two-year period. Coincidentally, did you know that the store was trying to invade New York City again?
So who got the cash? Well, Gov-elect Cuomo got a thousand bucks in April of 2009 but says he returned it. And State Sen. Eric Adams (D-Brooklyn) got $500 but says he is giving it to charity (but not because of politics he says! "It is just the right thing," he says). Others who got cash from Walmart's political action committee include democrats like Ed Towns, Gregory Meeks, Charlie Rangel and Carolyn Maloney. Meanwhile the Republican Assembly Campaign Committee, the Niagara County Republican Committee and the Committee to Elect a Republican Majority all got $10,000 donations.
Somehow we suspect the dems at least won't be keeping the money for long, not if they want to keep their union constituents happy...
