Letter to the editor

Bernie Sanders must go

It is indeed true that Bernie Sanders has done absolutely nothing for the citizens of Vermont during the last two years while the 114th Congress has been in session, rarely showing up in Washington to vote for any pending legislation. For all his 10 years in the Senate he has been a member of the Senate Committee on Veterans Affairs and has done nothing as the scandals at the VA hospitals have worsened. He was the committee chairman in 2014 who approved the nomination of present VA Secretary Robert McDonald who is easily the most incompetent member of the Obama Cabinet which includes such luminaries as Loretta Lynch, John (Unfit for Command) Kerry, Ash Carter and Jeh Johnson.

Sanders’ wife, Jane Omeara, while president of Burlington College was responsible for bankrupting that institution yet is getting away scot free because Attorney General William Sorrell will not investigate her actions.

For someone who ponied up $650,000 to buy a home on Lake Champlain, you would think our Socialist senator could get his hair cut more than once every six months or buy his suits that don’t appear as if they came off the rack at the nearest Good Will store.

Sanders has also help elect Lt. Gov David Zuckerman and Vermont Sen. Chris Pearson, both of whom will be among the leaders trying to ram a carbon tax down the throats of overtaxed Vermonters next year.

I am calling for any Democrat who might be interested in running against Sanders in the senatorial primary in 2018 to step up. It is not too early to mount a challenge. I am willing to work 24/7 to help someone defeat Sanders in 2018. With all his many faults, Sanders by his actions gives both our native Brooklyn and all senior citizens a very bad name.

Jon Farber lives in Wheelock.