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Beto O’Rourke Responds to El Paso Shooting
Presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke has responded to reports of a shooting in his hometown of El Paso, Texas.
“Truly heartbreaking. Stay safe, El Paso,” he wrote in a tweet. “Please follow all directions of emergency personnel as we continue to get more updates.”
According to the El Paso police department, police responded Saturday to an active shooter at the Cielo Vista Mall. Police also tweeted that they had received multiple reports of multiple shooters. Additionally, they asked residents to avoid the area as they continued to conduct a search of the area.
O’Rourke represented the area in Congress until 2018 when he decided to run for senate against Republican Ted Cruz. Just a year later he announced his campaign to run for President of the United States in the 2020 election cycle.
The news of the shooting comes on the heels of another shooting at the Gilroy Garlic Festival in California last weekend. At least three people were killed and 15 others were injured in the mass shooting after Santino William Legan opened fire on a crowd of people at the popular food festival. Another shooting also occurred Tuesday at a Walmart in Mississippi where a disgruntled employee killed two coworkers and injured a police officer.
https://variety.com/2019/politics/news/el-paso-shooting-beto-orourke-1203290781/
Sam Walton built the business and his children sold it out.
Jim Walton
Born on June 7, 1948 in Newport, Arkansas, Jame (Jim) Carr Walton is the third and youngest son of Walmart (NYSE: WMT) founder Sam Walton. Jim Walton earned the bulk of his wealth from his association with Walmart; his annual income in Walmart dividends alone was $475 million after taxes in 2013, according to Forbes. He was No. 12 on Forbes’ list of the world’s billionaires for 2014 with an estimated net worth of $35.3 billion. As of March 2018, Jim Walton was the 16th richest person in the world, with a net worth of $41.9 billion, including over 152 million of Walmart shares. As of 2018, Walmart operated more than 11,000 stores worldwide bringing in more than half a trillion dollars in revenue.
Jim Walton also heads the regional bank Arvest Bank Group and is chairman of the board for Community Publishers, which puts out several local newspapers in the Southern United States.
BREAKING DOWN Jim Walton
Walton earned a bachelor’s degree in marketing from the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville in 1971, then took a year off to travel and earn a pilot’s license before joining Walmart, where he ran the company’s real estate operations for four years. He left his position with Walmart to join his family’s umbrella corporation, Walton Enterprises, the family’s holding company that owns banks and other businesses. He would later become its president.
Walton is chairman and chief executive office (CEO) of Arvest Bank Group, a Walton-owned regional bank that operates more than 260 banks in more than 100 communities throughout Arkansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma. As of 2014, it had assets exceeding $14 billion and was the largest bank in Arkansas by deposits and the largest in Oklahoma by branches. Community Publishers, of which Walton is also chairman and a board member, publishes newspapers in these same three states.
Arvest Bank was originally the Bank of Bentonville, Ark., before the Walton family purchased it in 1961. Arvest expanded by purchasing a small bank in 1963, the Bank of Pea Ridge, and another in 1975, First National Bank & Trust Company. The company began expanding more rapidly starting in 1984. In 2013 Arvest purchased 29 Bank of America locations in the region. Arvest has repeatedly won customer satisfaction awards from J.D. Power and Associates.
As of 2018, Walton lives in Bentonville, Arkansas (which is where Walmart is based out of), with his wife Lynne McNabb Walton. They have four children.
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Samuel Robson Walton Net Worth
Net Worth: $44.5 Billion
Age: 74
Born: October 28, 1944
Country of Origin: United States of America
Source of Wealth: Heir to Walmart Fortune
Last Updated: 2019
Introduction
Samuel Robson “Rob” Walton is an heir to the fortune of Walmart, the world’s largest retailer. Walton is the eldest son of Helen and Sam Walton. He served as Chairman of Walmart from 1992 to 2015.
As of 2019, Samuel Robson Walton’s net worth is roughly $44.5 billion, which makes him one of the richest people in the world.
Early Life
Samuel Robson Walton was born on the 28th of October, 1944, in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Walton is the eldest of four children of Sam Walton and Helen Walton. He has a younger brother, Jim Walton, and a younger sister, Alice Walton. His other brother John Walton died in 2005.
Walton attended The College of Wooster and graduated from the University of Arkansas in 1966. He received his Juris Doctor degree from Columbia Law School in 1969.
Career
After Walton graduated he became a member of the law firm that represented Wal-Mart. In 1978, Walton left Tulsa to join Wal-Mart as a senior vice president, and in 1982 he became vice chairman. He was named the chairman of the board of directors in 1992 two days after his father’s death.
Alongside with his siblings, he has pledged about $2 billion to the Walton Family Foundation from 2008 to 2013.
He joined a law firm and was a member of the law firm Conner and Winters in Tulsa Oklahoma. Walton later left the firm to join his father’s company. He occupied the posts of senior vice president, secretary, and general counsel and vice chairman at Walmart.
By the time he left Tulsa in 1978, Walton had three children, was divorced from his first wife, and was remarried to Carolyn Funk. He and Carolyn filed for divorce in 2000. Walton married his third wife Melani Lowman-Walton in 2005.
He was ranked at #17 on the 2013 Forbes list of world billionaires with a net worth of $26.1 billion. On the 2013 Forbes 400 list of the richest people in America, he was ranked at 9. Walton is a well-known collector of automobiles.
As of 2019, Samuel Robson Walton’s net worth is $44.5 billion.
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