Why we’re only hearing now about a huge Sanders scandal

[riversedge]

-Mostly because Sanders has not been vetted!


http://nypost.com/2016/05/18/why-were-only-hearing-now-about-a-huge-sanders-scandal/

Why we’re only hearing now about a huge Sanders scandal

By James Hohmann

May 18, 2016 | 6:57am
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Why we’re 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 husband’s 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 didn’t 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,” Wonkblog’s Max Ehrenfreund explained.

The Sanders campaign has ignored repeated requests for comment on Burlington College’s failure. The uncharacteristic silence is telling.

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[TheBlackAdder]

1. People who are only hearing about this now, have their heads buried in the sand.

[merrily]

3. LOL! We posted almost the same thing simultaneously.

But it's Yuuuuuuuuge!

Hillary's above top secret emails a"nothing burger" according to Brock. But this is yuuuuge. ok.

[merrily]

2. This story has been out there for months. The Post is re-hashing it.

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]

6. Its financial woes have been in the papers for months, but

it's tumbling around the news cycles because they offically pulled the plug this week.

[merrily]

7. Not what the headline of this RW paper says, though, is it?

[villager]

4. Because it was in the "what to post" faxes this week. nt

[merrily]

8. BINGO!

[scscholar]

5. I don't think college students...

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]

10. Of course not

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]

13. There's a bigger issue here about small liberal arts colleges,

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]

9. This story has been out there for quite awhile (nt)

[Gothmog]

11. Sanders has not been vetted at all because no one believes that he will be the nominee

There is a ton of material that would hurt Sanders in the general election if people look

[TimPlo]

12. Then you vetted him?

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?