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book_worm

(15,951 posts)
Wed May 18, 2016, 03:48 PM May 2016

Failure of Burlington College is a big problem for Bernie and Jane Sanders

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 connected to Mrs. Sanders’s 2010 purchase of 32 acres of lakefront property, part of a botched expansion plan. The college was placed on academic probation in 2014 by its accrediting agency and it faced cash flow problems due to the imminent loss of a line of credit, The Post’s Nick Anderson reports. To survive, the school has tried to sell land but it was not enough to remain solvent.

Jane Sanders was president from 2004 until 2011, when she stepped down amid an apparent dispute with the college’s board. She left with a $200,000 severance package.

First, Bernie and Jane 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 did not 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.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/daily-202/2016/05/17/daily-202-failure-of-burlington-college-is-a-big-problem-for-bernie-and-jane-sanders/573a388c981b92a22d837b46/

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jeff47

(26,549 posts)
9. Actually, Clinton made all sorts of claims about her role on Libya
Wed May 18, 2016, 04:36 PM
May 2016

...up until it didn't quite turn out the way she wanted.

That "we came, we saw, he died" video was part of her discussing her major role in Libya, for example.

Again, not difficult to weigh these decisions.

1) A candidate's spouse tried, and failed, to expand a college

2) A candidate herself pushed through a PNAC-inspired agenda that annihilated two countries.

Clearly, a business failing is the far, far, far worse offense.

 

libdem4life

(13,877 posts)
4. Yes, we know. Now, back to egging on Syria and reigniting the ME.
Wed May 18, 2016, 04:02 PM
May 2016

Also, I don't think there was a cover-up...that's what gets politicians (which of course she's not) into trouble.

Hillary's son-in-law lost how much with his failed hedge fund betting on Greece's "poverty program"?

 

scscholar

(2,902 posts)
5. Why not blame the person that was there for the past five years...
Wed May 18, 2016, 04:05 PM
May 2016

instead of blaming the person that left long ago?

NurseJackie

(42,862 posts)
6. "...Ms. Sanders misrepresented confirmed donations in order to get that loan..."
Wed May 18, 2016, 04:08 PM
May 2016
http://www.wcax.com/story/30935632/group-calls-for-fraud-investigation-into-jane-sanders-land-deals

"It appears that Ms. Sanders misrepresented confirmed donations in order to get that loan," said Brady Toensing, an attorney and Vice Chair of the Vermont Republican Party.
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