2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumFailure of Burlington College is a big problem for Bernie and Jane Sanders
Bernie Sanders is huge on college campusesor yuuuuge, as he likes to saybut 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. Sanderss 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 Posts 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 colleges 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.
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Little Star
(17,055 posts)jeff47
(26,549 posts)Boy, those are SO difficult to weigh.
Ohioblue22
(1,430 posts)jeff47
(26,549 posts)...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.
highprincipleswork
(3,111 posts)libdem4life
(13,877 posts)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)instead of blaming the person that left long ago?
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)CorkySt.Clair
(1,507 posts)Who woulda thunk it?