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Swordsmyth
12-19-2018, 05:53 PM
Vermont's Independent Senator — and former progressive presidential candidate — Bernie Sanders is being sued over claims that he used his own political clout to punish a local businessman who ran an attack ad against Sanders.
The Daily Caller (https://dailycaller.com/2018/12/17/bernie-sanders-vallee-lawsuit/) reports that "Rodolphe “Skip” Vallee, the CEO of St. Albans-based gasoline distributor and retailer R.L. Vallee," is suing Sanders for trying to put his company out of business after Vallee paid for an ad about Sanders' "golden parachute" — a $200,000 retirement deal that his wife struck with her former employer (which she was, at one time, accused of mismanaging), Burlington College.

In response, Vallee alleges (https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/5631943/Vallee-Memo-Opposing-Motion-to-Quash-Kent-v-Vallee.pdf), Sen. Bernie Sanders suddenly became very interested in the price of gasoline, and whether certain gasoline retailers were inflating the price of fuel beyond what the Federal Trade Commission had prescribed. When Sanders failed to convince a government body to take action on the issue, he and a key staff member moved on to the Vermont attorney general's office.
"The Vermont senator’s office called the ad 'pathetic' and referred to Vallee as a 'junior varsity version of the Koch brothers.' Only a week later, Bernie Sanders and McLean allegedly sat down with members of the Vermont attorney general’s office where the duo broached suspicion that Vallee’s company was participating in price-fixing," the Caller reported (https://dailycaller.com/2018/12/17/bernie-sanders-vallee-lawsuit/).
When that didn't work, either, Vallee alleges, Sanders and McLean tried to drum up support for "a $100 million class-action lawsuit against R.L. Vallee and three other companies alleging anti-competitive practices."
According to Vallee, Sanders would never have concerned himself with the price of gasoline in Vermont had Vallee not been behind an ad Sanders happened not to like.

Bernie Sanders says he is considering a second run at the presidency and will decide whether to throw his hat in the ring in early 2019. His chances of winning a Democratic primary are, according to the latest polls, much lower than in 2016, when he was the only progressive candidate. Now, he'll compete against a bevy of left-leaning lawmakers, if he's allowed to compete at all — the DNC is considering disqualifying Sanders from running as a Democrat unless he officially changes his party affiliation from "independent."

More at: https://www.dailywire.com/news/39477/bernie-sanders-sued-over-claims-he-used-government-emily-zanotti

oyarde
12-19-2018, 06:10 PM
Everyone Knows Bernie is a dirtbag , well except all those retards in vermont .

Anti Globalist
12-19-2018, 06:14 PM
Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy.

acptulsa
12-20-2018, 09:40 AM
He's just a copycat. Richard Nixon was more original.