Wal-Mart Watch: Inglewood residents overwhelmingly reject Wal-Mart's resolution resolution to give it local sovereignty and free reign to flout government regulation: "What this shows is that Wal-Mart can't dupe people in this city to sign away their rights," said Mike Shimpock, a strategist for the campaign against the move. "If they spent $1 million here and lost by this margin, I doubt they'll try this elsewhere. They'll have to approach cities as equal partners." Turns out that, contrary to company claims, it's not just "special interests" opposed to Wal-Mart's race to the bottom after all.