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joining me is that jelani communications and outreach coordinator for united
republican report a reporter for republic report buzz that great to talk
to you i want to start with this uh... wal-mart incredible wal-mart story where
someone
uh... claiming to be a reporter actually went and interviewed warehouse workers
at times out that they were actually
part of a lobbying firm that was essentially spying on wal-mart workers
talk about how this entire thing got started
yeah so there's a group of workers out
no los angeles area
and therefore there is a whole warehouse workers united basically what they're
doing is it an organized uh... to keep out so good bc practices of of problem
armrest revenue more aggressively into that area there were organized and make
sure that if it doesn't even know that uh... he chooses workers fairly and
alive and only want to see what my stamina is so what happened was they
resist
by young woman she she appeared at one of their press conferences set up to me
that you said that she was a statement
u_s_ c_n_n_ renee mazzoli mitchell
um but some workers got really suspicious and that's a look at
and they found that it was actually stephanie cardin she works for a
lobbying and public relations fair called mercury public-affairs america a
pretty public affairs uh... you know actresses sort of like a dead she took
out a twitter account
connie didn't hear much from them first they said that you know she acted
completely on our own wal-mart
uh... was
the actually a company that is hiring rickety public affairs
during his entire career as a client of there's a deal with
deal with sort of the backlash against walmart in los angeles area at walmart
said that you know we also did nascar to go it goes
despise the book those places services themselves armor and eventually she was
apparently wake up america a public affairs although she hasn't done any
sort of interviews so we don't know exactly
what happened are somewhat stop there for a second so number one
what during the time that she did this
was mercury already doing work with wal-mart
yes my colleague only find it and we both whites
to gregory public-affairs bridge here watching the seekers they have bridges
all over the country we ask them if walmart was a client there isn't they
wouldn't confirm anything about what stephanie hardie with him but they did
indeed confirmed that wal-mart was a a quiet for a client of various when she
was doing this okay and if there's any doubt that the so-called so we mitchell
is indeed
stephanie harnett for mercury is there any question about that at this point
and know that there's no question about that is very graphic evident that the
pictures of her as a rather edited out as the pictures from
mercury a mercury also confirmed that as well
okay so is it believable this idea that walmart
didn't know nor ask nor endorsed mercury to have anyone do this and also that
mercury had no idea
that that's stephanie was doing this i mean is that believable
you know we we were the prayers are literally report about is that after we
reported on this doctor also rebounded someone out contacted doctor someone a
day if they're talking to my back and they said they work for public relations
firm also
and she doesn't by the office by the group of workers i think it was an ohio
or somewhere like that
uh... so
you know we don't have to take a print at walmart as silly directs people to do
this aspirin to do this but we do know that it was the big board
saying that they did similar things
on behalf of wal-mart is certainly no this is a mrs
a company that just uh... had to deal with a scandal of spending millions of
dollars writing officials yourself the border in mexico it's not a company
that's
you necessarily we would expect to do something collect this so what's the
goal of all this and what what do you think was the initial goal of even sets
of stephanie going in there is interested in a sense for
what may wal-mart have to deal with as far as
uh... kind of uh... collective bargaining a collective actions from
these warehouse workers are what was the idea was the goal
in no king wal-mart just like any other apparently large employer
is always that you had some flip those employees after something in
especially aval this company particulars or has a very very sorry it so you need
record album
uh... almost none of their stores are united in the united states there's some
overseas that are you guys uh... river there's one
branches canada that you know i said i think there's a lot of a setting that
shutting the entire store down
dave businesses armored treating workers
and so it's a isn't terribly surprising a bit higher hired to play mercury
public affairs
i had to do some sort of work and after that now they now get very curiam
wal-mart claim that stephanie
use this tactic on her book
may have a right to list white
a merger was supposed to be doing for wal-mart headlight warmers that right
that's the question is that if he decided to do this on her own i can't
imagine it was completely disconnected from what she was supposed to be doing
if we believe per second that the specific action was to came up with an
eye on her own
and so then the question is what kind of work which is supposed to be doing for
wal-mart through her employer mercury do we have any idea of that
you know when i am when i went to the great sheer washing t_c_i_ asks
the cathy did you get to their peter bragged about this and he he was
completely tailored he didn't want to talk about what the word that they were
doing a c_e_o_ he had no idea that was all the way a california california
is demanding more janet anyone using wire so
it seems to me i think i don't have a clear they want to say were one we had
one myers air car and of course now we didn't we didn't ask anyone does find
anyone
okay and did my last on this year's that every we heard the kind of a similar
lying when this box
box and friends producer
created produced edited in ran this for a minute what was essentially an entire
obama add twice during fox and friends and then we heard from fox news
executives we didn't know it was working on it we had we didn't authorize it'd
fit there we just didn't know thing about it and both times on this thing
into myself how how likely is it that these organizations really just had
absolutely no idea
that they have these road employees who if you believe the line just coming up
with these ideas completely on their own it's it's just that this doesn't really
strike means that the easy to believe what do you think
it and this is a honestly i think it's sort of a handed the eight-year date
back
it's kinda hard working people who are at some of those powerful people in our
politics people lake wal-mart why lobbying operation people eight record
public affairs which have
tangible grandma being clients you know that when they get it
uh... its own ironic that big people this powerful can't seem to take
responsibility or
that they allow young junior people as they claim
to continue to behave in ways that cause and bears prefer that i mean it seems
like it's almost those things don't mesh well together at one
you you know your your very professional and has been sent to you have
junior employees going off
and doing these things supposedly by themselves i mean my colleague
willie popping actually i wrote uh... i'd short piece
looking at how other lobbying groups
did a very very similar thing i mean the coal obvi two thousand nine
letters a civil rights groups sort of using race-baiting too
the demand that had to do and that people support called lobbying
when they work on it
based
they claim that they can't get on temporary employees publishers health
insurance coverage of the same thing to do that and then when they said
jake letters to local newspapers saying that they were elderly citizens instead
of you know how pictures like this
they've laid off an incident unanswered you know i think
it's just that we can really run too many people as they wanted to let
professional people on the industry they help you get results are powerful
obvious into they had these rogue june employees going all over during this
time it seems like something amiss here yeah i mean i think when newt gingrich
got those t-shirts printed ecuador the same time he was talking about american
jobs and then they blamed it on an intern something like that although
who clearly his campaign was a disaster since they didn't even get on the ballot
in so many places so maybe in that particular case uh...
it's believable said the lining
uh... communications and outreach coordinator for united republican also
reporter for republican report great work that they are great to have you on
we'll talking again
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