How much will the campaign pay her this time around?
Uh, “good”, I guess.
Jane Sanders somehow manages to avoid much scrutiny, and the infamy it should have earned her, for running Burlington College into the ground. Why she gets a pass on this in the national media is a puzzle, especially considering the political aspirations of her husband.
Late to the boards… Anyone seen their tax returns yet?
Are they trying to avoid the appearance of impropriety, or the impropriety of appearance?
This is a good reminder, for me, of the difference between judgement and scrutiny.
I don’t complain that so many things about Sanders haven’t received appropriate judgement from the press or from the public. I complain that so many things haven’t even been scrutinized. Was Burlington College maybe just doomed, or whatever, and Jane Sanders is blameless? Possible. Lots of small liberal arts colleges seem to face uncertain futures. But we haven’t really even looked into it yet.
The delusion people have that Bernie Sanders would have won in 2016 is mind boggling to me. Between all of this stuff, Jane’s role in her Burlington College fiasco, his bizarre writings, his first 40 years, and his refusal to release his tax returns, nominating this guy would be a disaster. He’s finally getting the tiniest bit of scrutiny. I know this pales in comparison to [checks notes] hot sauce, but the GOP will have a field day with stuff, and so will idiots like Jake Tapper.
I’ve read a good bit about this issue. I gather at a minimum she accelerated its descent into insolvency, and at worst foreclosed any possibility of long term financial viability.
They’re still trying to figure out how to explain the unreported cash they received from renting their properties.
Like the Trump crime family, the Sanders’ campaigns have always been a family financial affair.
The think tank will shut down until Bernie leaves the Democratic Party…again.
Bernie has been in an active process of taking out the trash in these first few weeks. First, he belatedly fires Tad Devine. Now, he closes this obviously grifty think tank. There’s still Our Revolution, the dark money super pac which coordinates with his campaign (possibly in violation of Federal law). That appears to be staying as Nina Turner has found a place wearing two hats (again…someone tell me how that arrangement is not in violation of law). This is all part of the tax return clean up before he releases them. That will be Phase 3 of the cleanup process.
The other candidates have not attacked Bernie on such things yet, but if people like Warren want to get ahead of him, they’re going to have to.
The press by and large was more focused on Hillarys stories since she was the frontrunner and eventually the candidate. Should Bernie become the candidate I am certain there will be lots more scrutiny. Part of Bernie’s appeal is not many people know that he has baggage like any other candidate.
I’m of the opinion that most post facto attacks on Clinton’s campaign in 2016 are sort of dumb (do Wisconsin voters really vote en masse based on which candidate stands on their dirt?), but I do fault her and her strategists for allowing this silly old man to take on the mantle of progressive sainthood without much challenge or pushback. This all would have been so much easier in November 2015 or whatever.
I don’t think the man is completely without merit as a politician, but Sanders has at least his fair share of closet-skeletons.
Remember how Bernie blasted Hillary for the Super PACs supporting her, and vowed he didn’t and wouldn’t take Super PAC money? Yeah, it wasn’t true then, either. St. Bernie The Pure’s self-righteousness crumbles under the faintest scrutiny.
That’s the obvious attack like for Warren and I troll her and her campaign’s strongest supporters on this point every day. How does she expect to win without getting past the guy sitting in Burlington in the NH primary? Does she think rolling out a policy to break up the big oil companies will do the trick? Nonsense. She has to engage in politics, not policy.
These people are just a small scale version of the Trumps.
Well, Warren is frankly not a very good politician, as the '18 MA-SEN victory margin illustrated. Head of CFPB was always the best place for her. Thinker, not leader. And that’s fine, we need both.
Take this Amazon/Google break up thing. That might be sound on policy grounds. It’s not great politics. Americans don’t wake up every morning feeling threatened by them. Going after FB? Most don’t view them as a monopoly on the Internet. I, for one, barely use it. What people want is to go after them for their data practices which is exactly with the DOJ is doing. So where is political value in it? There isn’t any. Now, having built up her policy bona fides if she were to invest some time and money in attacking Sanders for not living up to principles and showing that he would be easy fodder for the GOP on such issues, that would move things. It’s risky, but I don’t see how she beats his machine in NH otherwise.