I don't see any reason why Wal-Mart should not be allowed to have stores in Chicago. Once any neighborhood effects such as traffic flow are accounted for, there's no earthly reason why Wal-Mart should be kept out. Putting arbitrary government hurdles in front of a business trying to move to the city is extremely counterproductive.
I understand the arguments about Wal-Mart being a nonunion shop, but there's a tradeoff for that. Due in part to labor savings, Wal-Mart is able to offer an extremely wide range of everyday consumer products at lower prices than can be found in the combination of grocery/clothing/hardware, etc. stores. Chicago's consumers, especially those in inner-city areas where shopping venues can be rare, deserve the option of choosing where they want to shop. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of jon. kelland Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2004 6:58 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Chicago] for or against wal-mart? below is the start of a list of alds. that are seemingly for and against the proposed wal-mart - the question marks indicate they have basically said they are for/against it, but not clearly enough from the sources i was looking at. there are a bunch of alds. who are assuredly for it, but i haven't heard or read anything to confirm. can folks confirm or deny the selections below? anyone have more info. to put unlisted alds. in one camp or the other? what are your thoughts on wal-mart moving in? NO to Wal-Mart 4th - Toni Preckwinkle ? 6th - Fredrenna Lyle ? 15th - Ted Thomas ? 18th - Thomas Murphy 36th - William J.P. Banks 49th - Joe Moore Yes to Wal-Mart 13th - Frank Olivio ? 14th - Ed Burke ? 20th - Arenda Troutman ? 21st - Howard Brookins 28th - Ed Smith ? 31st - Ray Suarez ? 32nd - Theodore Matlak ? 34th - Carrie Austin ? 38th - Thomas Allen ? 42nd - Burt Natarus ? 29th - Isaac Carothers ? 36th - William Banks ? 37th - Emma Mitts 47th - Eugene Schulter ? 50th - Bernard Stone ? jon. kelland pilsen/25th - where a call to solis' office did not get me the answer, his chief-of-staff couldn't say, but took my name and number for solis to (apparently) return my call. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Win a $20,000 Career Makeover at Yahoo! HotJobs http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/careermakeover _______________________________________________ Chicago Issues Forum - Citywide Civic Discussion To post to list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To (un)subscribe: http://www.e-democracy.org/chicago/ To contact list manager: [EMAIL PROTECTED] E-Democracy will not share, trade, or sell your information. Please do not harvest participant e-mail information for other lists or solicitations without specific consent from addressee. _______________________________________________ Chicago Issues Forum - Citywide Civic Discussion To post to list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To (un)subscribe: http://www.e-democracy.org/chicago/ To contact list manager: [EMAIL PROTECTED] E-Democracy will not share, trade, or sell your information. Please do not harvest participant e-mail information for other lists or solicitations without specific consent from addressee.
