Kudos goes to Maryland Governor Todd Erlich, who stemmed the rising anti-Walmart tide today by vetoing a bill that would have forced Walmart to pay higher health care premiums and contribute more to Medicaid.

This was an obvious plan to single out Walmart:

The Fair Share Health Care Act, passed by lawmakers in April, would require a company with more than 10,000 employees to spend at least 8 percent of its payroll on health care benefits or pay more into the state Medicaid fund. Currently, only Wal-Mart fits that criterion.

Eduardo Castro-Wright, chief operating officer of Wal-Mart stores USA division, said the company already spends 7 percent to 8 percent of its payroll on health benefits.

I would say that had this bill been signed, it would have been declared unconsitutional anyway, but that's not a given with today's court system. 

That doesn't mean this is over.  The Maryland Senate passed the bill with enough votes to override the veto, and the House was just short of that number.  If successful, Walmart threatens to pull out of their plans to build a distribution center in Princess Anne, Maryland.  Losing the distribution center could take over 1,000 jobs away from the town.  And as the folks in Jonquiere, Quebec found out, Walmart doesn't play games with unions or left-wing governments trying to dictate how they run their businesses.

The citizens of Princess Anne should tell the Maryland legislature to step off, and let them decide if they want to work with Walmart.