No surprise here!
Are you sure that’s why? No one really wanted Wal-Mart in Chicago. Daley said he did, but I’m not even sure that’s true.
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Chicago Mayor Richard Daley gave unflinching support on Tuesday for Wal-Mart Stores Inc’s plan to open dozens of stores in the city, despite stiff union opposition that could hurt the retailer’s political allies in municipal elections.
The prospect of adding jobs in a down economy and bringing food stores to areas with no existing supermarkets – neighborhoods known as “food deserts” – were among the factors leading Daley to support of the big-box retailer.
But union leaders have said they will lobby lawmakers on the city council – who, along with Daley, face an election in February – to block the expansion plan.
CHICAGO (CBS) --** Mayor Richard M. Daley is still angry with the fierce opposition in the City Council that kept Wal-Mart from expanding in the city for six years.
Plans for two new Wal-Mart stores in the city were announced on Wednesday. At a news conference, Mayor Daley recalled how after the first city Wal-Mart opened at North and Kilpatrick avenues in 2006, but expansion was delayed after that, and now, the next Supercenter won’t open until 2012.
“I always ask myself why it took six years to get here,” Daley said. “Now who opposed you – who still opposes you – and you’d better figure that out.”
High taxes + Beaucoup regulations = Good Bye.
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