Walmart Heiress Urges Americans to Protest

 

by Pa Rock

Citizen Journalist

Stop the presses!

One of the Walmart Walton heirs was in the news yesterday for a positive reason.  No, it wasn't a ne'er-do-well grandchild of Sam, nor even one of those descended from his younger brother, Bud.  The Walton who made the news is the widow of John, one of the children and direct inheritors of Walmart founder Sam Walton and his wife, Miss Helen.

Sam and Helen's four children were Rob (Samuel Robson Walton), John, Jim, and Alice.  John, a veteran who served as a medic in Vietnam, was the family adventurer.   He was killed in 2005 in the crash of an ultralight aircraft that he had designed and built.  His widow, Christy, was recognized by Forbes Magazine for several years after that as the richest woman in America, a distinction she no longer holds.   Lukas Walton, her and John's son and only child, is currently recognized as the richest person in Illinois.   Unlike most of the Walton family, Lukas is a donor to Democratic candidates and causes - and his mother, Christy, is apparently also on the left side of the political spectrum.

Yesterday Christy Walton made political waves when she paid for a full-page ad in the New York Times supporting the "No Kings" movement that encouraged Americans to turn out and protest during the Trump military birthday parade on Saturday as a means of rejecting authoritarianism.   Her ad linked to a site listing 1,500 protest locations across the United States.

Many MAGA Walmart shoppers and most of the White House staff were not amused by Christy's betrayal of wealth and status in  America, and a goodly number are calling for a boycott of the world's largest retailer as a punishment for Ms. Walton being so audacious in exercising her First Amendment right to free speech.   How dare she!  Boycott Walmart - that'll learn her!

(Executives with the Walmart Headquarters in Bentonville, Arkansas, were quick to point out that Christy Walton , who owns over 1.9% of the company, is not on the board of directors and has no role in the management of the stores.  And Pa Rock is quick to point out that none of these goobers are going to actually boycott Walmart anyway - because then where would they go to socialize?  Spare me your sanctimony!) 

But, boycott to your heart's content - I double-dog dare you.  Let me know when you reach your one-week mark, and I'll show you my thirty-year pin!

Posers!