Wal-Mart Sends Out Racial Mailer

• Mailer says: "Their real intention is to put the Wal-Mart on the ballot so they can bring Jessie Jackson and Reverend Al Sharpton to Rosemead to defeat the project.'

The latest of the four mailers to arrive in mailboxes Thursday reads: "Have you been tricked The out of town anti-Wal*Mart forces are paying petition circulators $5 per signature. To get those signatures they have been lying about the purpose of the petitions.' Putting Rosemead In a Desirable Environment is the group responsible for the $2,000 worth of mailers. "The fact of the matter is they have people who are not registered voters collecting signatures and we believe that among those are paid people,' said Mike Lewis, a West Covina-based consultant to Wal-Mart and organizer of PRIDE. The mailers accuse petition gatherers of deceiving voters into signing a petition in favor of the 24-acre Wal-Mart Supercenter development approved for Walnut Grove Avenue and Rush Street in Rosemead. The latest mailer also reads, "Their real intention is to put the Wal*Mart on the ballot so they can bring Jessie Jackson and Reverend Al Sharpton to Rosemead to defeat the project.'  [more ]