Free Republic

Here's a walk-through of the background events that have led to this point. Bernie Sanders met Jane O'Meara in 1981, when Sanders was still the mayor of Burlington, and the two were married in 1988. In 2004, Mrs. Sanders took over as the president of Burlington College, a small liberal arts college that had a student body that normally floated around 200 students. Prior to that, she had served briefly as the acting president of her alma mater, Goddard College. A real estate deal initiated during Mrs. Sanders' time at Burlington College is the crux of the problems and resulting...