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In reply to the discussion: Where did Jane Sanders report her $200K in severance pay in 2011? Could someone who knows [View all]Hassin Bin Sober
(26,311 posts)5. It was paid out for two years
This is kind of funny. Now I know where the golden parachute malarkey came from.
Some butt hurt mini Koch brother Bernie busted for gas price fixing.
The golden parachute to which Vallees ad refers is the $200,000 that Jane Sanders was paid by the college during the two-year period after her resignation from the institution in October of 2011.
Asked to the respond to the allegation, Sanders spokesman Michael Briggs called Vallee a junior varsity version of the Koch brothers and said Sanders will not be intimidated by a millionaire who has crawled into the gutter and bought TV ads attacking Bernies wife for a sabbatical she earned from a college where she was president for seven years.
Briggs said in a written statement that the motivation behind the attack ad is readily apparent to anyone familiar with the history between Sanders and Vallee.
Skip Vallee has ripped off customers for years at his Burlington-area gas stations that sell the highest-priced gas anywhere in Vermont, Briggs said. Vallee clearly doesnt like it that Bernie has exposed his ripoffs.
Sanders in 2012 asked federal regulators to investigate what he characterized as artificially high gas prices in Chittenden, Grande Isle and Franklin counties, where 58 percent of the gas market is controlled by four companies, Vallees among them.
After Sanders threw his support behind a Costcos proposal to install a gas station at its existing store in Colchester a move he said would bolster gas-market competition Vallee responded by paying to air a 30-second attack ad in late 2012. The ad accused Sanders of snubbing the states treasured history of protecting our natural environment by siding with a multi-national, billion-dollar corporation over Vermonters.
Asked to the respond to the allegation, Sanders spokesman Michael Briggs called Vallee a junior varsity version of the Koch brothers and said Sanders will not be intimidated by a millionaire who has crawled into the gutter and bought TV ads attacking Bernies wife for a sabbatical she earned from a college where she was president for seven years.
Briggs said in a written statement that the motivation behind the attack ad is readily apparent to anyone familiar with the history between Sanders and Vallee.
Skip Vallee has ripped off customers for years at his Burlington-area gas stations that sell the highest-priced gas anywhere in Vermont, Briggs said. Vallee clearly doesnt like it that Bernie has exposed his ripoffs.
Sanders in 2012 asked federal regulators to investigate what he characterized as artificially high gas prices in Chittenden, Grande Isle and Franklin counties, where 58 percent of the gas market is controlled by four companies, Vallees among them.
After Sanders threw his support behind a Costcos proposal to install a gas station at its existing store in Colchester a move he said would bolster gas-market competition Vallee responded by paying to air a 30-second attack ad in late 2012. The ad accused Sanders of snubbing the states treasured history of protecting our natural environment by siding with a multi-national, billion-dollar corporation over Vermonters.
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Where did Jane Sanders report her $200K in severance pay in 2011? Could someone who knows [View all]
pnwmom
Apr 2019
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So just because a question is uncomfortable, it has now become a "right wing talking point"?
SFnomad
Apr 2019
#4
I didn't post that ad or anything Vallee said. The VT Digger is a legit, non-rightwing source. n/t
pnwmom
Apr 2019
#13
"his own behavior has revealed he's the wrong stuff for any position of power in a democracy" -AMEN...
NurseJackie
Apr 2019
#26
You should consider that this is not the same thing as getting a check for $200K
mr_lebowski
Apr 2019
#2
That would NORMALLY be how it works for an average person, but it doesn't have to always be :)
mr_lebowski
Apr 2019
#8
Which is logical, it's often to both parties advantage to spread large payments out ...
mr_lebowski
Apr 2019
#10
Their Line 7 W2 income with her working in 2009, 2010 and 2011 is between 282 - 295k
Hassin Bin Sober
Apr 2019
#31
You're correct, severance pay (sabbatical pay?) is considered normal income and should be reported..
George II
Apr 2019
#16
As I've pointed out, many (if not all) of these tax returns are incomplete....
George II
Apr 2019
#22