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)What's "unwise" is blaming this very local story--which the citizens of Burlington have followed very closely for a long while--on "Clinton supporters."
The Republicans are also interested in this story, because they believe they'll be able to use it downstream when Sanders runs for re-election for his Senate seat in 2018--if that college crashes and burns, they will make hay over it.
This story has been a subject for discussion well before Sanders ever declared his presidential candidacy.
If a college in your small town (and Burlington, if located anywhere else, would be a small to middling town, not 'the big city') was in danger of collapsing because of financial misconduct or mismanagement on the part of the college president--throwing many local JOBS in danger of being lost, and many sources of community INCOME out the window--wouldn't you be concerned? The school is on academic probation because of their failure to keep their books in order--bad financials do impact that.