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-Mostly because Sanders has not been vetted!
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Why were only hearing now about a huge Sanders scandal
By James Hohmann
May 18, 2016 | 6:57am
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Why were only hearing now about a huge Sanders scandal
Bernie and Jane Sanders Photo: Reuters
Bernie Sanders is huge on college campuses or yuuuuge, as he likes to say but the small private school in Vermont that his wife, Jane, ran for seven years announced yesterday that it will shutter because of the crushing weight of debt incurred under her leadership.
Burlington College said its financial troubles are linked to Jane Sanders 2010 purchase of 32 acres of lakefront property, part of a botched expansion.......................
Sanders has become an increasingly prominent figure in her husbands campaign. The onetime community activist routinely travels with him and has become a ubiquitous surrogate on cable TV.
The failure of Burlington College gives credence to two arguments routinely made by the Clinton campaign and its allies:
First, Bernie and Jane Sanders were insufficiently vetted by the mainstream media. Many reporters have passed on writing up opposition research hits about the Vermont senator, or focusing on the problems at the college, because they didnt believe he ever had any realistic chance of being the nominee.
The Clintons, owing to their status as the front-runners and former occupants of the White House, have continued to command a more intense level of scrutiny.
Second, Sanders is making fantastical promises that are unfeasible. Eventually someone has to pay the bills for his promised revolution. Studies published last week by the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center and the Urban Institute concluded that Sanders plans are short a total of more than $18 trillion over a decade.
His programs would cost the federal government about $33 trillion over that period . . . yet he has put forward just $15 trillion in new taxes, Wonkblogs Max Ehrenfreund explained.
The Sanders campaign has ignored repeated requests for comment on Burlington Colleges failure. The uncharacteristic silence is telling.
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TheBlackAdder
(28,211 posts)merrily
(45,251 posts)But it's Yuuuuuuuuge!
Hillary's above top secret emails a"nothing burger" according to Brock. But this is yuuuuge. ok.
merrily
(45,251 posts)I guess the Hillary campaign sent them a press release given Bill has been in the news lately. Good luck getting people lathered up over this.
Brother Buzz
(36,458 posts)it's tumbling around the news cycles because they offically pulled the plug this week.
merrily
(45,251 posts)villager
(26,001 posts)scscholar
(2,902 posts)are going to have an issue with an attempt to move a college to a much nicer campus. Pushing this issue is a losing proposition.
TexasTowelie
(112,368 posts)when you don't tell them that the tuition increased to attempt to pay for the new property which the college had to sell back.
QC
(26,371 posts)a good many of which are teetering on the edge.
Sometimes they do close quietly, as Sweet Brier tried to do last year, but more often administrators and alumni go all out to save the place and do things like build nicer facilities or, like Mount Saint Mary's in Maryland, bring in an "unorthodox" presidential hire like a vulture capital guy. (He crashed and burned quickly because he cared more about money than people. Gee, who could have anticipated that?)
A lot of small colleges will go under in the next few years. It's sad, and if Jane Sanders is criminally liable for what happened at Burlington, she should be punished.
This is an interesting issue, but we don't do issues here anymore, especially when they require a bit of nuance.
Most discussion here has been reduced to little girls arguing over exactly what it is that makes Justin Bieber so dreamy.
bigwillq
(72,790 posts)Gothmog
(145,489 posts)There is a ton of material that would hurt Sanders in the general election if people look
TimPlo
(443 posts)So how can you say he has not been vetted? If you know about it then you don't think the millions that Clinton has spent on opposition research would of not found it?