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Ridgewood NJ, Most Americans will spend this Thanksgiving Day at home with family and friends.
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 81% of American Adults plan to get together with family and friends this Thanksgiving, up slightly from last year. Only 27% plan to travel away from home for the holiday, unchanged from a year ago. (To see survey question wording, click here.)
Public records show pattern of payments to Democratic presidential candidate’s inner circle
BY: Lachlan Markay
January 6, 2016 2:00 pm
Bernie Sanders and his wife have on numerous occasions steered money from organizations under their control to friends and family members, public records show.
The payments benefitted the wife of the Democratic presidential candidate, his stepdaughter, and the son of a former colleague in city government whom Sanders has described as a close friend.
Sanders, a self-described socialist, is now running for the presidency on an anti-corruption platform, decrying public officials’ attempts to use their positions for personal financial gain.
Following 16 years as a member of the House, Sanders was elected to the Senate in 2006. His political campaigns were an early vehicle for payments to his family members.
According to Jane O’Meara Sanders, the senator’s wife, Sanders’ House campaigns paid her more than $90,000 for consulting and ad placement services from 2002 to 2004. She pocketed about $30,000 of that money.
Her daughter Carina Driscoll, Sanders’ stepdaughter, also drew a salary from the campaign. She was paid more than $65,000 between 2000 and 2004, according to her mother.
After working for the campaign, the senator’s wife would come under scrutiny for expenditures at Burlington College, where she was hired as president in 2004. While she led the school, it paid six-figure sums to her daughter and the son of a family friend.
