Opposition to Wal-Mart development growing North and South
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Source: *http://fredericksburg.com*<http://fredericksburg.com/News/FLS/2009/012009/01312009/442901>(1-31-09)

The so-called "Wilderness Wal-Mart" in Orange County is catching grief from
both North and South--and elected officials on both ends of the political
spectrum.

U.S. Rep. Ted Poe, a conservative Republican from eastern Texas, has
expressed to Wal-Mart CEO Lee Scott his "profound disappointment" about the
giant retailer's plan to build a Supercenter beside the Civil War
battlefield. In a letter written last week, he urges Scott to give the
matter "immediate reconsideration."

Meanwhile, lawmakers in Vermont--a haven for independent-minded
Democrats--are holding hearings on the issue. Vermont troops suffered their
worst casualties of the war in the Battle of the Wilderness, turning back a
Confederate attack that threatened to split the Union Army.

The Vermont Senate and House are considering whether to ask Wal-Mart to move
the store farther from the entrance to Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania
National Military Park, according to Howard Coffin, a Civil War historian
and author who lives in Montpelier, the state capital.

Posted on History News Network Monday, February 2, 2009

-- 
Jon Kukla
www.JonKukla.com

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