2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Did Bernie's wife commit a felony when she secured a loan for Burlington College? [View all]MADem
(135,425 posts)work running his campaigns, and she has put one of her KIDS on the payroll too.
Given that it looks like she might have trouble handling money, it is salient to ask who is keeping the books over at Team Bernie. If it's Jane, they need to find someone else to do that work. One needs to ask if she has any checks and balances in place when she decides to spend money on behalf of the campaign--is there anyone who verifies her obligations, double checks the figures?
This incident with the bank loan also speaks to her integrity--if she did, indeed, misrepresent those pledges, that is dishonest at best, criminal at worst. If she simply made a huge mistake, and "misheard" pledge after pledge after pledge, then maybe her hearing or her judgment are problematic and that could cause difficulty in her management of the campaign.
If a Presidential candidate has someone on their staff who lied about money, lied about donors, told lies to banks to GET money, or even just, in a stumble-bum way, misheard, misunderstood, got confused, etc., that is a problem.
It IS a salient matter.