One family, two schools: Questions raised about another Sanders deal

[TomCADem]

Bernie Sanders's strategy of preemptively attacking the media as biased the way Trump has routinely attacked the media has worked in enabling him to get a free pass. While Republicans happily pursue conspiracy theories against Biden, and wine cave fundraiser are the focus of a debates, and Elizabeth Warren gets pressed about financing Medicare for All, Bernie is able to avoid such scrutiny even as his campaign complains about media bias.

Biden, Warren and even Pete B have all took turns being the focus of attacks during the debates. In contrast, Bernie has not been the focus of such attacks even though he was at one time leading in the polls at the start of the campaign season. Bernie remains unvetted even though there is a lot of questions about his tenure as Vermont's senator. For example, even less discussed then the demise of Burlington College, which was headed by his wife Janes Sanders, is the conflicts of interest arising from contracts negotiated between Burlington and a school headed by Bernie's step daughter Carina Driscoll.

Carina Driscoll, of course, has followed her step father into politics, and was funded and endorsed by Bernie's SuperPAC, Our Revolution, notwithstanding Bernie's statement that, “In our family, however, we do not believe in dynastic politics."

These are facts and statements that Bernie's campaign has been able to avoid addressing.

https://vtdigger.org/2017/06/13/one-family-two-schools-questions-swirl-around-another-sanders-deal/

While one deal struck by Jane O’Meara Sanders during her time as Burlington College’s president has triggered a federal investigation, another arrangement she engineered is breeding claims of nepotism and allegations of veiled threats against her husband’s presidential campaign. The bad blood centers on the relationship the college forged with the Vermont Woodworking School, co-founded and run by Sanders’ daughter, Carina Driscoll.

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Moore is equally critical of a deal Jane Sanders brokered between the college and Driscoll’s Vermont Woodworking School, a facility in Franklin County where Burlington College students took courses. In interviews with VTDigger, Moore said the college got the short end of the stick.

“This was a sweetheart deal for Carina Driscoll, Jane Sanders’ daughter,” said Moore. Driscoll is the stepdaughter of Bernie Sanders.

Moore served as the college’s president from 2014 until May 2016, when the school abruptly shut down.