Washington Post has a feature called the Daily 202, which includes an email about its contents, and today’s led with a piece titled The Daily 202: Failure of Burlington College is a big problem for Bernie and Jane Sanders.
The piece by James Hohmann is subtitled “THE BIG IDEA: Burlington College is feeling the burn.”
It is prompted by the failure of Burlington College, whose president for a number of year was Jane Sanders.
Quoting from the piece:
Burlington College said its financial troubles are connected to Mrs. Sanders’s 2010 purchase of 32 acres of lakefront property, part of a botched expansion plan. The college was placed on academic probation in 2014 by its accrediting agency and it faced cash flow problems due to the imminent loss of a line of credit, The Post’s Nick Anderson reports. To survive, the school has tried to sell land but it was not enough to remain solvent.
Jane Sanders was president from 2004 until 2011, when she stepped down amid an apparent dispute with the college’s board. She left with a $200,000 severance package.
In addition, the piece goes further. Here are several of the subtitles bolded in the piece in its online version:
-- Mrs. Sanders has become an increasingly prominent figure in her husband’s campaign.
-- The failure of Burlington College gives credence to two arguments routinely made by the Clinton campaign and its allies:
First, Bernie and Jane were insufficiently vetted by the mainstream media
Second, Sanders is making fantastical promises that are unfeasible.
-- The Sanders campaign has ignored repeated requests for comment on Burlington College’s failure.
It is worth noting the text Hohmann adds immediately after the last subhead:
The uncharacteristic silence is telling.
Hohmann also notes that in the press conference announcing the closing, the current President and Dean refused to respond when asked about a possible law enforcement investigation into the college’s finances.
There is already increasing coverage of this story.
Have no idea how it will play out.
Doubt it has any impact on today’s primaries, but could come into play as the primary season continues.