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Senator/Comrade Bernie Sanders (Independent Communist-VT) covertly funneled $200,000 from his campaign donations intended to be used for his reelection to his wife's supposedly nonprofit institute. The institute apparently does as much work as Bernie [hardly any] but pays a boatload of greenbacks in compensation to her son, according to Fox News Digital.
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.
Bernie's charming wife and former president of the now defunct Burlington College, Jane O'Meara Sanders, and her handsome son, Dave "The Rave" Driscoll, co-established the Institute in 2017, just one year after Burlington College went under due to financial problems. The Jane-Dave Sanders Instituter was established to promote progressive [read 'communist'] voices, as per the Washington Post when it was launched.
"The purpose is to revitalize democracy in the support of progressive institutions," Jane Sanders told the Post. "Our feeling is at our point in time, our country is at a crossroads, and people are engaged in a political process that can be opaque." And her school went bankrupt due to her mishandling of the money she received for it.
"A vital democracy requires an informed electorate, civil discourse, and bold thinking," she pontificated. "So we put together this team to focus on issues, but not in a partisan way, not in a way that just focuses on the latest crazy thing. It will not be about Trump; it will be about the issues facing the country."
"The purpose is to revitalize democracy in the support of progressive institutions," Jane Sanders told the Post. "Our feeling is at our point in time, our country is at a crossroads, and people are engaged in a political process that can be opaque." And her school went bankrupt due to her mishandling of the money she received for it.
"A vital democracy requires an informed electorate, civil discourse, and bold thinking," she pontificated. "So we put together this team to focus on issues, but not in a partisan way, not in a way that just focuses on the latest crazy thing. It will not be about Trump; it will be about the issues facing the country."
In 2019 the institute claimed it would suspend operations due to Bernie Sanders seeking nomination for president and the appearance of impropriety. And hey, when a communist has that much money in his coffers, it's hard to make a case for equal pay for equal yadda yadda.
But the so called "nonprofit" institute has since covertly restarted operations in the shadows out of media attention. Its 2021 tax forms show that it spent about 40% of its donations on salaries, did even less work than Bernie did at a commune, and had nothing to show for its existence, much like Bernie, Jane and David.
It turns out that David scored the most money in the institute's "operation." In 2021 the institute raised $716,618 and paid out $257,000 in wages, including $152,653 to David, the institutes' so called executive director, which he labels himself as on LinkedIn. Prior to that, he posted that he was global director of team and media for Burton Snowboards, a career that evidently went downhill.
In 2021, the institute also reported spending $159,885 on developing The Timeline Project, which they described as a "policy-focused resource based on Bernie Sanders work over four decades" that would be one of the "key pilars [sic] of the website." Additionally, they pissed away nearly $89,000 for a news website, an identical amount for social media and content creation, and $17,765 for a gathering they had to cancel due to the pandemic.
The money it was supposedly used for its projects was an illusion. Nowhere on its website is a "policy-focused resource" as described for its top program expense.
Despite Jane Sanders' claim that she wanted to support other progressive organizations, the institute did no such thing and reported zero grants to other left wing groups according to its tax records. Worse, the Sanders Institute did not disclose its donors on its tax forms, but the outlet was able to identify its main cash sources from the year of its most recent documents.
A search of FEC records shows that Sanders' 2020 presidential campaign sent $350,000 to the institute in April 2021. A nonprofit called Wend II Inc added $250,000 to build "content capacity" that year, according to their own tax forms. Wend II Inc's director is James M. Walton, the son of James Carr Walton, one of the wealthiest businessmen in the world and an heir to the Walmart fortune.
The two donations accounted for about 84% of the $716,000 the Sanders Institute raked in throughout 2021.
In 2018, VTDigger reported that the think tank had practically nothing to show to justify its existence during its first year, including sparse original content. They also found that much of it was plagiarized from other sources, much like it remains today.
The two donations accounted for about 84% of the $716,000 the Sanders Institute raked in throughout 2021.
In 2018, VTDigger reported that the think tank had practically nothing to show to justify its existence during its first year, including sparse original content. They also found that much of it was plagiarized from other sources, much like it remains today.
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