{"id":1997686,"date":"2023-08-11T11:28:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-11T15:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bernie-sanders-caught-funneling-large-sums-of-campaign-cash-to-wife-stepsons-nonprofit\/"},"modified":"2023-08-11T11:31:05","modified_gmt":"2023-08-11T15:31:05","slug":"bernie-sanders-caught-funneling-large-sums-of-campaign-cash-to-wife-stepsons-nonprofit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bernie-sanders-caught-funneling-large-sums-of-campaign-cash-to-wife-stepsons-nonprofit\/","title":{"rendered":"Bernie Sanders funneled campaign funds to wife and stepson&#8217;s nonprofit."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbernie-sanders-caught-funneling-large-sums-of-campaign-cash-to-wife-stepsons-nonprofit%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1997686&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Uncomfortable Optics\u200d for Bernie Sanders: Campaign Cash Directed to Wife&#8217;s Think Tank<\/h2>\n<p>There\u2019s an uncomfortable new optic for Sen. Bernie Sanders, self-described democratic socialist of Vermont.<\/p>\n<p>In March,\u200c he directed $200,000\u2063 from his campaign monies to his\u2064 wife\u2019s think tank, which pays \u200cher son a \u200bhealthy salary, according to \u2064 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/bernie-sanders-funneled-200k-campaign-cash-wife-stepsons-nonprofit-institute-records-reveal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fox News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Stepson David Driscoll makes $152,653 plus other compensations as executive director of the Sanders Institute, co-founded in 2017\u2064 by Driscoll and \u200dhis mother, \u2062Jane O\u2019Meara Sanders.<\/p>\n<p>The\u2064 recent funds join another $350,000 from the Sanders\u200b campaign in 2021 along with $250,000 from a nonprofit headed \u200bby James M. Walton, grandson of Walmart\u2064 founder Sam Walton.<\/p>\n<p>The Sanders Institute\u2019s mission\u200d is \u201cto\u2064 revitalize democracy by actively engaging individuals, organizations and the media in the pursuit of progressive solutions to economic, \u2063environmental, racial and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/5-virtue-signaling-corporations-trying-to-prove-their-wokeness\/\" title=\"5 Virtue Signaling Corporations Trying To Prove Their \u2018Wokeness\u2019\">social justice issues<\/a>,\u201d according\u2063 to its <a href=\"https:\/\/sandersinstitute.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">web site<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In 2019, as Sanders\u200b was aiming for the Democratic nomination for president, the institute\u2062 recognized \u201cthe appearance\u200c of impropriety\u201d\u200d regarding \u200bfunding, \u2063so it shut \u200cdown, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2019\/03\/14\/sanders-institute-suspends-operations-amid-criticism-over-donations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the New York Post<\/a> said at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Later, the Sanders Institute\u200c quietly resumed operations, with its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bernie-sanders-caught-funneling-large-sums-of-campaign-cash-to-wife-stepsons-nonprofit\/\" title=\"Bernie Sanders funneled campaign funds to wife and stepson's nonprofit.\">2021 tax filing reflecting 40 percent<\/a> of its $716,618 in donations going to\u200b salary, according to Fox News. Accomplishments have been meager, including some content creation, presentations of two YouTube videos and planning for\u200d a meeting that was canceled by the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>While no doubt legal, there\u2019s no getting away from the bad \u2064optics of the Sanders arrangement.<\/p>\n<p>And similar\u2064 things \u200bhave been \u2063done before. For instance, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/corruption-maxine-waters-given-daughter-1-million-campaign-cash\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rep. Maxine \u200cWaters<\/a> (D-Calif.) paid her daughter, \u2062Karen Waters, well over a million dollars for\u2062 campaign work from \u20642003 \u200dto 2021.<\/p>\n<p>In 2023, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/high-profile-dem-funnels-thousands-dollars-husband-private-security-doesnt-license\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rep. Cori \u2064Bush<\/a> \u200b(D-Miss.) paid $30,000 to \u2064her husband,\u2064 Courtney Merritts, for security \u2063services, despite his lack of required licensing. He\u200b received over $62,000 the previous year, although Bush and \u2063Merritts were not then married.<\/p>\n<p>The campaign\u200b of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/corruption-maxine-waters-uses-campaign-cash-give-daughter-salary-twice-national-median\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rep. Ilhan Omar<\/a> (D-Minn.) spent $3 million \u200don a company owned\u2064 by \u200bTim Mynett, a man she eventually would marry, although that ceased after they wed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/bernie-sanders-scrambles-confronted-hypocritical-detail-angry-capitalism-event\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Back to \u2064Sanders<\/a> and optics \u2014 there\u2019s always the contradictory picture of the\u200d people\u2019s senator having\u2062 three houses.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wrote a best-selling \u200cbook,\u201d \u2062was a \u2063response Sanders once made to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/04\/09\/us\/politics\/bernie-sanders-millionaire-net-worth-taxes.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the New York Times<\/a> about the matter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf\u2063 you write a\u2063 best-selling book, you can be a millionaire, too,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Okay, Senator. Point\u200c taken.<\/p>\n<p>Also, \u200din harder times for Sanders \u2064and his \u200dwife, they did some real estate flipping, according to Michael \u200cKruse\u2064 of\u2062 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/magazine\/story\/2019\/05\/24\/bernie-sanders-millionaires-226982\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Politico<\/a>, who wrote: \u201cIn a strict, \u200dbottom-line sense, Sanders has become one of those rich \u200bpeople against whom he has so unrelentingly railed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But that\u2019s \u200dhow socialism works, right? Its top\u200b guys tend to get the top \u2063benefits. That\u2019s even if, as\u200c in this case, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nolte-everyone-at-cnn-serviced-the-zucker-gollust-cuomo-affair\/\" title=\"Nolte: Everyone at CNN Serviced the Zucker-Gollust-Cuomo Affair\">top guy<\/a> is what is known as \u2014 if you\u2019ll forgive \u2064the oxymoron \u2014 a \u200cdemocratic socialist.<\/p>\n<p>And for Waters \u200band others,\u2064 gaming the system is nothing for\u2063 you \u200cto be concerned about.<\/p>\n<p>No matter how bad it looks.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/bernie-sanders-caught-funneling-large-sums-campaign-cash-wife-stepsons-nonprofit\/\">Bernie Sanders Caught Funneling Large Sums of Campaign Cash to Wife, Stepson&#8217;s Nonprofit<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The \u200dWestern Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Bernie Sanders, a self-proclaimed democratic socialist, faces scrutiny as he funneled $200,000 from his campaign funds to his wife&#8217;s think tank. Fox News reports that his stepson, David Driscoll, earns a substantial salary of $152,653 as the executive director of the Sanders Institute, which Sanders co-founded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2018,"featured_media":1997687,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[548],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1997686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news-daily"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1997686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2018"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1997686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1997686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1997687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1997686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1997686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1997686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}