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Speaking Up For Wal-Mart
I think it is about time that we people who are happy to see a Super Wal-Mart being built at the Oro Valley Marketplace make our voices heard. Yes, it is fun to walk around a mall like La Encantada, but that isn’t where I spend my dollars. Those items are priced beyond my pocketbook! With a few exceptions, such as Crate and Barrel, the boutiques are just not my cup of tea.
I will probably continue to drive all the way down to Tucson Mall for most clothing purchases, but for everyday, run-of-the-mill purchases, I’m happy as a clam that I won’t have to drive to the Foothills Mall to shop at Wal-Mart.
We can’t wait for the movie theaters to open and to have a number of restaurants to chose from. I am sure the smaller stores will offer many interesting goods and services as well.
I cheer on the earth movers each time I drive down Oracle Road.
Roberta Wisniewski,
SaddleBrooke
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Oro Valley was lied to
Re: the Aug. 11 letter to the editor "Speaking up for Wal-Mart."
The letter writer has it all wrong. The current controversy regarding a Wal-Mart being built in Oro Valley isn't regarding whether or not we are happy to see it built rather than a La Encantada-type shopping center. The issue is a much larger and more complicated.
To simplify it for her, residents of Oro Valley are angry at our Town Council for placing a proposition on the voting ballot which was a misrepresentation, or, in plainer words, a lie. We were lied to.
Mary Reilly
Histologist, Oro Valley
4 comments:
To Roberta from Saddlebrook:
First, you sure do have a lot of audacity stating that you enjoy watching earth movers destroying someone else's beautiful town and believing that it's OK to do that in order to meet YOUR greedy little needs. If someone wanted to build a strip joint in the heart of Saddlebrook so they wouldn't have to drive all the way to Tucson for that, would that be OK with you? It is not your town that is being destroyed, you are not the one who was promised one thing and then handed another, so you don't have any say in this matter.
Second, thank you for agreeing with us that Wal-Mart is "run of the mill." That is our point exactly!
Third, your argument that you will continue to drive all the way to Tucson Mall to shop for clothes but you are happy that you won't have to drive all the way to Foothills Mall for a Wal-Mart doesn't make any sense since the drive to Foothills Mall is shorter than the drive to Tucson Mall.
But hey, I've yet to hear a pro-Wal-Mart argument that HAS made any sense!
Why don't you contact Vestar and convince them to build a Wal-Mart at Saddlebrook instead? What's the matter...you don't want the crime and traffic and pollution in YOUR neighborhood??!!
Cowgirl. Since Roberta is chosing to spend her tax money in Oro Valley to help lessen your future tax burden, she should have a say. Who left you in charge to dictate who has a say and who doesn't? It seems like only those who agree with you are allowed a say. That's not like you!!!
Chill a bit!! :-)
Hi Cowgirl and Thinker.
Sure its ok for Roberta from Saddlebrook to have an opinion. I don't think it would be ok for her to have a say on what goes on here in OV when it comes to our future tax revenue.
I also would love to hear from Roberta when the earthmovers dig too close to her playground.
i bet she will lose her happy clam clap real fast and substitute with a NIMBY song!
Thinker,
I stand by my statement...a person who lives in Saddlebrook does not have a say on how Oro Valley's tax dollars should be spent. Just because she wants to shop at Wal-Mart doesn't mean that OV has to provide her with one!
On a related topic, did anyone else see the story on the news the other night about the woman in Mesa who was caught on videotape beating her child in a Wal-Mart? She PUNCHED the child in the face, back and stomach! He is 10 years old. No one from W-M intervened on the child's behalf! The police later learned that this woman's boyfriend had killed her other child (I think it was a 6-month old baby) by shaking it to death.
No one wants to talk about this stuff because we all have to be "politically correct" which simply means that we are no longer allowed to state the obvious. The obvious being that THIS is the type of person who shops at W-M, not at LaEncantada. Now why does Oro Valley want to WELCOME these types (low-lifes...there...I said it!) into our town??!!
Now before you go and call me an "elitist" you need to know my background. I grew up in a mill town on the east coast. I was surrounded by drug dealers, prostitutes, ex-cons, child abusers, etc. etc. These people lived on my street! I worked very hard to get out of that hell-hole. I did my best to ignore my surroundings while getting an education and then I packed up and moved to the suburbs in my home state and then, years later, to Oro Valley.
So "Thinker" will just have to excuse me if I'm upset to learn that the beautitul and crime-free town with the educated population that I moved to has now decided that we should surround ourselves with the very people that I moved away from 20 years ago!
I worked too hard to get where I am today to end up right back where I started.
And Thinker, don't bother trying to argue with me on this one. If you can defend Rick Cunnington's and Roberta "Saddlebrook's" right to have a say, then you also have to accept my right to have a say.
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