Inside Burlington, Vermont: Bernie Sanders' hometown (LA Times)

[HerbChestnut]

&feature=emb_logo

[TomCADem]

1. Bernie Sanders Has Two Family Members Running For Office, And That Could Cause Real Trouble

Yup, Bernie and his family have been fixtures in Vermont politics and business for decades...

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/03/sanders-has-2-problematic-family-members-running-for-office.html

Yeah, Levi Sanders will get a lot of attention for being the son of the man who has represented next-door Vermont in Congress for over a quarter of a century, and who won the 2016 New Hampshire primary by a 60/38 landslide. But it remains to be seen how he will handle that attention.

While Driscoll is a more conventional political figure than her step-brother (despite her independent status), and so far as we know is not in the habit of saying dumb things on Twitter, she raises another problem for herself and her family: she’s been linked to the controversy over her mother’s financial stewardship of Burlington College, which closed under a massive load of debt five years after the end of Jane Sanders’ presidency of the school, during which the small private college expanded its campus significantly.

Turns out Driscoll’s own Vermont Woodworking School formed a partnership with Burlington College during Jane Sanders’ presidency that funneled about a half a million dollars to the off-site facility where Burlington students took classes. Sanders’ successor as president at Burlington and chief critic of her tenure, Carol Moore called the partnership a “sweetheart deal” for Driscoll that ended up “gouging the college.”

It’s hard to imagine this not coming up early and often in Driscoll’s candidacy. And that in turn will likely increase the hostile attention to Jane Sanders’ conduct at Burlington College, which has already generated a lot of smoke but no legal fire.

[Uncle Joe]

2. Good video.

Thanks for the thread HerbChestnut.