Bernie Sanders Buys a Summer Home in North Hero: "The Burlington resident last week plopped down nearly $600,000 on a lakefront camp in North Hero." [his third house]

Bernie Sanders Buys a Summer Home in North Hero: "The Burlington resident last week plopped down nearly $600,000 on a lakefront camp in North Hero." [his third house] ( sevendaysvt.com )

submitted 2016-08-10T15:58 by salvia_d

7 comments

BlackCrimesMatter 2016-08-10T20:43

My that income equality is easier to preach than practice.

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lordtyp0 2016-08-10T16:54

And?

He has pulled in nearly 200k for 17+ years. His wife as well has had some good income. They have not released values of liquid assets such as bank accounts, retirement funds, sock portfolios etc. Only real estate and a blurb on credit card debt.

Unless they have a massive cocaine habit, they would have to have a few million in savings.

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un1ty 2016-08-10T18:22

Well, to spell it out (this is why we can't have nice things), Bernie claimed to be 'one of us" and represent the common person struggling to get by. His apparent media record would have you believe he's very modest and doesn't have a lot of money.

I don't know many people who drive an $80K vehicle and own 3 houses that claim to be 'average' and 'struggling.'

tl;dr: typical pandering of emotions to under-educated masses who need someone to associate with.

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lordtyp0 2016-08-10T18:28

I don't recall him claiming to be 'average' or 'struggling'. His message has always been that money and the wealthy are causing a bad situation for all those who are struggling. His message was always about that.

In context of all this: He doesn't have three houses. A bit of semantics I know, but important for context. One of those properties is a cheap condo because that is a cheaper method than leasing or staying at a hotel.

As another reply mentioned, they also sold a bequeathed property that Jane had.

The insinuation in all of this is bribery. There is no evidence of that at all. There is no evidence of him violating his message either-unless people in question are projecting some sort of messianic image onto him instead of him being a man who is trying to do the best by as many as he can.

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Dortex1 2016-08-10T18:21

To add to it, they sold a home his wife's parents left her to get that place.

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lordtyp0 2016-08-10T18:25

Took a min to find that-a detail a whole lot of people have been omitting. Thank you :)

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toobaditworks 2016-08-10T16:52

I wouldn't mind living there.

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