So, now the right is saying that the rights of corporations to locate wherever they want trump the rights of towns and cities to decide their own tax base? Good one.

If a town doesn't want a particular franchise, for whatever reason, they must be Nazis? I can think of dozens of towns off the top of my head who refused to let McDonald's or Taco Bell or Starbucks or any number for franchises in, because they didn't want to. I don't remember anyone saying You have to let them in or else.

Hasn't Walmart aready fought, and lost, that battle several times?

Walmart fought and won. There are 2 stores in the area now.

It's not discrimination if it applies across the board. Restrictive signage and facade laws are passed and enforced too. We don't have K-Marts or Costcos here, just Walmarts and Sam's Clubs. Walmart spent several years and a lot of money fighting restrictive sign and facade ordinances before building in the next county. They have (or did at the time of construction) the only red brick Walmart in the country now, with a simple sign on the front of the building that matches every other buiding in the town. And it's not even in the trademark Walmart colors.

Also communities have been known to downsize future big box retail stores from 70,000 SF to 25,000 SF and increase ADA parking, building setback and storm pond detention requirements.

They are still building them....

Rep. Joe Walsh is Muslim bashing again. And so soon after a white supremacist mistook Sikhs for Muslims? What an insane buffoon he is!
http://www.salon.com/2012/08/09/walsh_muslims_are_trying_to_kill_americans/

Walsh is still a bigoted deadbeat buffoon.

At a campaign barbecue in his district Sunday, Walsh was explaining what he hopes will be the tea party’s role in the election:

“There’s something different on the ground, and I think it’s going to overtake us all again, think it’s going to overtake the political class. I think it’s going to respectfully pick this president up and pat him on the head and say, son, son, son, Mr. President, you were never ready to be president, now go home and work for somebody and find out how the real world works.”

Color of Change, a progressive advocacy group said the Walsh line was “racially inflammatory.”

“Once again, Rep. Joe Walsh has decided to stoke racial fears about President Barack Obama in order to leverage support for his own campaign,” Color Of Change Executive Director Rashad Robinson said in a statement. “His comments not only demonstrate the lack of respect for President Obama’s position, but also for the millions of American voters who elected him into office in 2008.”

Ohio has introduced a new tactic in their broader attempts to make it even harder for Democratic voters to get to the polls this year. Early voting stations in Ohio’s heavily Democratic counties will only be open between 8 am and 5 pm, while Republican counties have expanded their hours to allow voting on nights and weekends.

This rule is the latest in a broader attack on voting rights in Ohio, which often comes down to a tiny margin of votes. Ohio Republicans are currently ensconced in a legal battle with the Obama campaign over another new rule that would limit early voting in the three day period before the election exclusively to military families. Mitt Romney falsely claims Obama’s lawsuit is meant to take away voting rights from military families, when in fact he is simply trying to restore voting rights to all Ohio residents. Early voting was introduced to mitigate Ohio’s notoriously chaotic elections, in which thousands of votes are tossed due to clerical errors and bureaucratic confusion.

Starting October 1st, voters in Democrat-leaning urban centers including Cleveland, Columbus, Akron and Toledo will now only be allowed to vote between 8 am and 5 pm on weekdays, when the majority of people are at work. The board of elections in these counties, which are split evenly between Democrats and Republicans, was gridlocked over a Democratic effort to expand hours. The Republican Secretary of State Jon Husted stepped in to deny expanded hours in these counties. But Republican-heavy counties have actually expanded early voting hours on nights and weekends, when most people have time to go to the polls. The Nation reports:

According to the Board of Elections, 82% of early voters in Franklin County voted early on nights or weekends, which Republicans have curtailed. The number who voted on nights or weekends was nearly 50% in Cuyahoga County.

“I cannot create unequal access from one county board to another, and I must also keep in mind resources available to each county,” Husted said in explaining his decision to deny expanded early voting hours in heavily Democratic counties. Yet in solidly Republican counties like Warren and Butler, GOP election commissioners have approved expanded early voting hours on nights and weekends.

The growing outcry from Democrats and black leaders is causing Secretary of State Jon Husted to reconsider whether he should impose a statewide standard on early voting hours.

“Given the controversy that has seemed to envelop this and the lack of facts out there, I will be forced to consider issuing a standard directive for hours of operation,” he told The Dispatch.

Wow, Kimba. I thought Ohioans were more sophisticated than that.