Wal-Mart is all the rage amongst progressive groups in the state. The company has manipulated the Arvada Urban Renewal Authority into condemning a stream-fed lake northwest of Denver in order to pave it over for a new store.

They've also convinced Denver to provide over $10 mill in tax-incentives to bull-doze a mall of Chinese shops, as much of a Chinatown as Denver has ever had.

But Wal-Mart has provided the fortune behind Kroenke sports (via marriage), the entity which owns the Denver Nuggets basketball team, the Colorado Rapids soccer team, and the Colorado Avalanche.

We seek thee whom sometimes we would flee...