The fucking title of the article is
"San Diego to ban Wal-Mart Supercenters"
and this is from Liberal USA Today.
http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/retail/2006-11-29-wal-mart-san-diego_x.htm
Gee I wonder what the council meant to do?
Even Liberals are not this naive, so they just pretend to play lawyer with what the council COULD have meant.
But there is a Wal-Mart in San Diego:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&time=&date=&ttype=&q=wal-mart+san+diego+california&ie=UTF8&om=0&layer=c&ll=33.084638,-116.669312&spn=0.662762,1.252441&z=9&iwloc=A