The Sanders Institute might feel the Bern after a recent Fox News report that showed 200K from Senator Sander’s Campaign funds getting shoveled into the nonprofit created by his wife and stepson to…pay his stepson a “living wage.”
It does not say that anywhere on the website, but that appears to be the extent of its service to the community.
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders quietly funneled $200,000 from his campaign’s coffers to his wife’s nonprofit institute, which appears to do very little work and pays six figures’ worth of compensation to her son, Fox News Digital has found.
The independent senator’s committee cut two $100,000 checks to the Sanders Institute for reported charitable contributions in January and March, its Federal Election Commission records show. The expenditures are the largest from the Sanders campaign to any entity this election cycle.
According to Fox, Stepson David Driscoll runs the organization, which paid him $152,653 in salary and other compensation in 2021. To do what? Fox News could not find anything remotely linked to the organization’s purpose. They report a website with lots of words and promises but not much else.
At least we know what’s keeping Jane O’Meara Sanders “busy” after she ran a local Vermont College into the ground.
Burlington College announced today that it will close on May 27 after it found itself unable to recover from “the crushing weight of the debt” incurred under Jane O’Meara Sanders, the college’s former president and wife of Bernie Sanders.
Jane’s job and the college she “ran” went away in 2016. She and Bernie’s stepson “opened” the Sanders Institute in 2017.
Nothing odd about that. She needed something to do, so why not launder some campaign donations into your family’s pockets in the name of socialism? That is, after all, how it works.
And I find myself in similar circumstances to Jane, with a few exceptions. My “day job” is going away, but I didn’t run the business into the ground—quite the contrary. But supply chains and customer interest have shifted since COVID. What used to be our bread and butter is not, and the evolution of the business in that direction does not require the tasks I perform. Having run businesses, I get it. It’s inconvenient for me, but from an operations standpoint, it makes sense. I do not, however, have a step-dad with gobs of dollars earned, pirated, or raised for campaigns to create make-work jobs.
But I am trying to fund a full-time gig running the Grok, our PAC, and some actual reporting around New Hampshire. It’s a sound investment for interested parties because we’ve already shown we can create something of value for Conservatarians. We’ve got well-documented reach and influence to build on for less than half the cost of what Driscoll scooped up for doing nothing but being related through marriage to Socialist Senator Sanders.
Maybe I should ask Bernie to write me a check.
While we wait, now that the communist cat is out of the black bag, will Jane and David erect a Sanders Institute Potemkin village? You would think they’d need to do something besides pretending to be a news site to funnel nearly three times the average national take-home pay to a stepson.
Perhaps they could use the Clinton Global Initiative as a template.
Wait, that was just a money laundering operation as well.
