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Fresh Off His Campaign to Make Socialism Great Again, Bernie Sanders Buys $600,000 Summer House
Independent Journal ^

Posted on 08/09/2016 12:03:00 PM PDT by TigerClaws

After losing to Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders is back to his day job as a US Senator for Vermont.

Sanders campaigned against the 1%, promising to bring America closer to his Democratic Socialist ideal and to take corporations and rich people down a peg or two.But now that his campaign is over, he’s picking up a sweet new pad.

According to Seven Days, a news publication in Vermont, the Democratic Socialist from Vermont shelled out 600 grand for a lake house.

The Burlington resident last week plopped down nearly $600,000 on a camp in North Hero.

Sanders’ new waterfront crib has four bedrooms and 500 feet of Lake Champlain beachfront on the east side of the island — facing Vermont, not New York. The Bern will keep his home in Burlington and use the new camp seasonally.

“We’ve traveled up to the islands many times over the years — almost always on day trips,” Sanders’ wife, Jane O’Meara Sanders, told Seven Days in a written statement. “We’ve been impressed with the North Hero community, eaten at the North Hero House and Shore Acres and have suggested them to friends who were looking for a beautiful place to stay or have dinner. St. Anne’s Shrine in Isle La Motte is my favorite church and it is nearby.”

Twitter was swift to respond to the irony:


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To: pleasenotcalifornia

I’m sure he’s sending invites to his open house to the Occupy crew....


21 posted on 08/09/2016 12:16:25 PM PDT by nascarnation
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To: TigerClaws

I believe that in Soviet circles, that is known as a “dascha.” All the elite Party officials have them.


22 posted on 08/09/2016 12:16:43 PM PDT by IronJack
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To: euram

Bernie had some mysterious, never did any other business, doing his ad buys for his campaign. No telling how much he pocketed off of the $27 donor types. Broke 20somethings mailing in their pizza money to the fraudster.


23 posted on 08/09/2016 12:17:04 PM PDT by TigerClaws
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To: TigerClaws

This proves that running for president is a very, very, very profitable political business. For Bernie, it is cream on the top for doing nothing in 25 years in Congress but Rat-holing under the table perks. The political oligarch class no how to create wealth the easy way.


24 posted on 08/09/2016 12:17:23 PM PDT by jonrick46 (The Left has a mental disorder: A totalitarian mindset..)
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To: KC_Lion

Bernie was pretty cheap.


25 posted on 08/09/2016 12:17:50 PM PDT by MeganC (JE SUIS CHARLES MARTEL!!!)
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To: jonrick46

Obama’s net worth while in office has gone from a million or two to $25 million.

Politics is very profitable.


26 posted on 08/09/2016 12:18:14 PM PDT by TigerClaws
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To: TigerClaws

Dog and pony shows pay well, apparently.

His masses are too stupid to figure out what is going on.


27 posted on 08/09/2016 12:19:17 PM PDT by CincyRichieRich (Have Faith...If you have none, pray and ask Him for more.)
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To: Tijeras_Slim
Nice dacha comrade!

In that location the weather won't be much different.


28 posted on 08/09/2016 12:19:21 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: TigerClaws

I thought Bernie was dirt poor, but his wife had some money.

Maybe he has more now, after folding for Hil.


29 posted on 08/09/2016 12:19:35 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: TigerClaws

Actually, he make $174K as Senator, so a $600K (=3.5X) house is not extravagant.


30 posted on 08/09/2016 12:19:38 PM PDT by The people have spoken
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To: TigerClaws

Heard he got a plane too.


31 posted on 08/09/2016 12:19:40 PM PDT by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: nascarnation

I’m sure he’s sending invites to his open house to the Occupy crew....


And the illegals.


32 posted on 08/09/2016 12:20:02 PM PDT by Jane Long (Go Trump, go! Make America Safe Again :)
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To: jonrick46

In my haste, I forgot to edit:

This proves that running for president is a very, very, very, very profitable political business. For Bernie, it is cream on the top for doing nothing in 25 years of Congress but Rat-holing under the table perks. The political oligarch class knows how to create wealth the easy way.


33 posted on 08/09/2016 12:20:19 PM PDT by jonrick46 (The Left has a mental disorder: A totalitarian mindset..)
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To: TigerClaws

Just like the old Soviet Commies and their dachas! Old Commies follow the same playbook. All for me, none for thee!


34 posted on 08/09/2016 12:22:21 PM PDT by vette6387
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Comrade Sanders! Your guests have arrived!

35 posted on 08/09/2016 12:24:22 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: TigerClaws

He sold out all his followers...and now they’re going to buy a Hillary in a poke? I think they are likely pretty disgusted with the whole thing. Easy to find something else to do on a Tuesday in November.


36 posted on 08/09/2016 12:26:15 PM PDT by Scott from the Left Coast (Live Free or Die: We thought it was a neat old slogan from our past. We'd better think again.)
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To: TigerClaws

From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs


37 posted on 08/09/2016 12:26:37 PM PDT by bigbob (The Hillary indictment will have to come from us.)
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To: TigerClaws

“The Burlington resident last week plopped down nearly $600,000 on a camp in North Hero.”

I like making fun of leftist hypocrites (redundant I know) as the next guy, but “plopped down” means no mortgage. Given the woeful state of “journalism” today, I’d plop down a fiver myself to bet that he actually went the way of the vast majority of home sales and got a mortgage. I wouldn’t be waving this in front of a liberal and scoffing until I was sure.


38 posted on 08/09/2016 12:27:08 PM PDT by jiggyboy (Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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To: The people have spoken

Shouldn’t he donate all his money to help his poor brothers and sisters?

Why does he want to have a second house when so many suffer?

He’s a capitalist pig who sold his soul to Hillary and her Wall Street cronies.


39 posted on 08/09/2016 12:27:31 PM PDT by TigerClaws
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To: TigerClaws

Is the “Szander” family related to the Escariot family?


40 posted on 08/09/2016 12:27:48 PM PDT by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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