BERNIE AND JANE ON THE PERSONAL SIDE
COMPILATION AND COMMENTARY
BY LUCY WARNER
DECEMBER 25, 2018

HERE ARE SEVERAL ARTICLES, WHICH GIVE MORE INFORMATION ON THIS UNDERSTATED BUT INTERESTING POWER COUPLE THAN I’VE SEEN BEFORE, ARE FASCINATING, AND THEY CONVINCE ME EVEN MORE THAN IN THE PAST TO KEEP THE FAITH FOR BERNIE AND FOR STRONGLY PROGRESSIVE POLITICOS. WHILE HE HAS TRIED TO DO GOOD WHERE THERE IS A NEED FOR IT, HE HAS FOLLOWED HIS OWN DRUMMER IN THE MEANS THAT HE USED. I REALLY LIKE THAT. IT SHOWS BOTH STRENGTH AND INTELLIGENCE.

THAT MINORITY OF FALSIFIERS WHO CLAIM HE IS INSANE, HOWEVER, ARE EITHER HONEST BUT INCORRECT, OR ARE PURPOSELY PREVARICATING. I THINK IT IS THE LATTER. IT’S A COMMON POLITICAL PLOY. THERE ARE SOME OTHERS WHO ARE SIMILAR IN THEIR VIEWS TO SANDERS, BUT CLINTON, WARREN, AND WASSERMAN-SCHULTZ ARE NOT IN THE GROUP I DON’T BELIEVE. I WOULDN’T MIND HAVING BIDEN IN THE PRESIDENCY, BUT I CERTAINLY WON’T VOTE FOR HIM OVER SANDERS.

I SAY THAT BECAUSE THERE ARE A NOTICEABLE NUMBER OF JOHNNY-COME-LATELY PRETENDERS WHO ANGER ME, AND I WILL NOT VOTE FOR THEM. THEY’RE LIKE THE CROW WHICH ATTACHED PEACOCK FEATHERS TO HIS TAIL AND STRUTTED AROUND TO SHOW HOW IMPORTANT HE WAS. (AESOP)

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https://medium.com/@ShaunKing/you-dont-really-know-who-bernie-sanders-was-in-the-1960s-79628016125f
You don’t really know who Bernie Sanders was in the 1960s. Why it mattered then and why it matters in 2018.
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PHOTO CAPTION -- Bernie Sanders being arrested in a protest by the Chicago Police

I reject this idea that who Bernie Sanders was in the 1960s is irrelevant. Who you are and what you do, what you fought for, and who and what you fought against, is always relevant. Twenty and thirty and forty years from now, when people step up to lead, and run for office, what they did and where they were during the Black Lives Matter Movement will mean something. If what Bernie did in the sixties doesn’t matter now, then what you are doing right now doesn’t matter. But you and I know it does.

Dr. King once said, “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”

Just a teenager, Bernie Sanders moved from his hometown of Brooklyn to Chicago at the height of the Civil Rights Movement. It was the most tumultuous and challenging time this nation had faced since the Civil War a hundred years earlier.

And most Americans, particularly most white Americans, remained silent. It was that silence, in the face of lynching, in the face of water hoses, in the face of bombings of homes and churches, in the face of assassinations, in the face of attack dogs being released on children, it was white silence that broke the heart of Dr. King as he languished in a Birmingham jail (read his letter here). It was that silence that he found told us more about the soul of America than the brutality and evil of this place.

Bernie loved Dr. King. And long before we used the phrase, Bernie had the notion that he needed to use his own white privilege to fight back against racism and bigotry and oppression and inequality. And that desire to hold this country to a higher standard began to well up in Bernie as a young student at the University of Chicago. He became the chairman of the university chapter of the Congress for Racial Equality (CORE) and merged the group with SNCC — the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee. Bernie literally helped lead the first known sit-in in at the University of Chicago, where 33 students camped outside of the President’s office — protesting segregating housing on campus.

Bernie Sanders leading a sit-in on the campus of the University of Chicago

Disturbed by police brutality in Chicago, Bernie once spent the entire day blanketing the city with flyers on the issue — only to notice that he was being tracked by police who were following him and taking the flyers down.

Bernie hates telling these stories and has resisted using them for political capital across the years — even when advisors and others have told him it would boost his profile — he has refused. He does what he does because he cares. When I introduced Bernie at a rally in Los Angeles by sharing many of these stories, his own family came to me in tears saying that even they had never heard them before. He has always felt that what he did during the sixties paled in comparison to those who were beaten or lost their lives — and so he has kept some powerful stories to himself.

It’s cool for people to say, “I marched with Dr. King” — and Bernie actually did attend the March on Washington, but he did so much more than that. This is not some exaggerated myth. This is the origin story of a political revolutionary.

In 1963, 9 years after Brown v. the Board of Education, the white power structure in Chicago was still fighting against school equality like their lives depended on it. They literally treated Black school children like they had the plague. Not only were Black schools woefully underfunded, they were overcrowded and bursting at the seams.

At the same time, with every single Black classroom in Chicago past capacity, sometimes with school children sharing chairs and desks, a report found that 382 white classrooms across Chicago were completely vacant.

Mayor Richard Daley, who ruled Chicago with an iron fist, still hailed as a Democratic hero to this day, and School Superintendent Benjamin Willis, decided that before they would let a single Black child fill one of those vacant white classrooms, they would start putting raggedy trailers on the playgrounds and in the parking lots of Black schools, and put Black school kids in those trailers instead. They were scorching hot in the summer and bitterly cold in the winter. They were so cheap and poorly constructed that they often had holes in the floor — allowing rodents to come in and out at will. And those awful trailers became known around Chicago as Willis Wagons, named after Benjamin Willis, the school superintendent.

Kids picketing the Willis Wagons in Chicago

In August of 1963, just days before the March on Washington, the City of Chicago was about to install some more Willis Wagons for Black school children, and a brave interracial group of local activists and organizers decided to put their bodies on the line to block the installation of those trailers. They stood in front of bulldozers. They chained themselves together. Out of his reverence for what activists in the South were doing, Bernie has long since downplayed this demonstration, but it took so much courage.

Bernie Sanders — chained to Black women — at the protest of Willis Wagons.

Bernie, side by side with Black women, chained to them, refused to move. Even when the Chicago Police told him they would arrest him and forcefully remove him, he refused, and even when they decided to arrest Bernie and pick him up and carry him out of that parking lot so they could install those Willis Wagons, he kicked and screamed and resisted the entire way. Have you seen that photo of them carrying Bernie? I love it. And that photo, to me, is not just who Bernie was, it’s who he’s been his entire life.

PHOTOGRAPH -- Police arresting Bernie Sanders

To say that all of that means nothing is fundamentally preposterous. It means everything. Bernie was a protestor. Bernie was an activist. Bernie was an organizer. And he is literally the only person in the United States Senate with this story. When he retires, he will be the last activist from the the Civil Rights era in the United States Senate.

He did much more than this. I could tell you a dozen more stories, but I wanted to tell you who Bernie was when it counted, before we knew him, before he ever ran for office, before he was ever a national figure. He was a fighter. He has always rejected the status quo. He spoke out against Apartheid in South Africa before it was popular. Today, he speaks out against the Apartheid-like conditions in Palestine — even though it’s not popular to do so.

It takes guts in this country to refuse to be a Democrat or a Republican. It takes guts to do what Bernie did last week in California, to stand outside of Disneyland, and tell the country that 1 in 10 of their workers have been homeless in the past 2 years, that 2 out of 3 of their workers are food insecure, and 3 in 4 don’t even make enough money to afford basic needs — while their CEO literally makes hundreds of millions of dollars and goes around hinting that he might run for President. Bernie Sanders is literally standing alone calling out Jeff Bezos for his extreme wealth while Amazon workers are struggling with basic needs all over the country.

I campaigned hard for Bernie to be President. I believed he could beat Donald Trump and I believe he still could, but nothing touched me more about Bernie on the campaign trail than his love and support of my friend, Erica Garner*. I genuinely think her campaign ad for Bernie was the most compelling politcal ad of 2016. It disturbed the political establishment so much that Harvey Weinstein wrote Clinton’s campaign and urged them to find a way to shut Erica up.

Erica was forced into becoming a revolutionary freedom fighter after the NYPD murdered her father in cold blood. Erica had a bullshit radar and could see BS coming from a mile away. So many politicians had looked her in her face and lied — over and over again — saying what they were going to do to bring her family justice. And Bernie was literally one of the only political leaders she trusted. She loved Bernie so much. Erica gave her life fighting for justice for her family. And my very last conversation with Erica before she passed away was all about how much we both loved Bernie and believed he could’ve beaten Trump. Watch the video again. She loved Bernie because she knew he was really just an activist at heart.

I think we need a radical reconsideration of who Bernie is — more faithfully centered in who he was when it mattered, and who he has been for generations now.

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BERNIE SANDERS BECOMING BERNIE SANDERS -- THIS ARTICLE IS FROM 2015.

http://time.com/3896500/bernie-sanders-vermont-campaign-radical/
The Radical Education of Bernie Sanders
By SAM FRIZELL May 26, 2015

PHOTOGRAPH -- Bernie Sanders (R), member of the steering committee, stands next to George Beadle, University of Chicago president, who is speaking at a Committee On Racial Equality meeting on housing sit-ins. 1962. Special Collections Research Center/University of Chicago Library

Bernie Sanders won the first election he ever lost.

It was the late 1950s, and Sanders was still a teenager, running to be class president at James Madison High School in Brooklyn, New York. His platform promised to raise scholarship money for kids in Korea orphaned during the recent war. “It was an unusual thing for a person so young to be involved in,” remembers Larry Sanders, Bernie’s older brother. When the votes were tallied, the future Senator from Vermont fell short and lost, but the outcome set a precedent he would love to repeat on the national stage. The winner adopted the Korean scholarship idea and made it happen.

Half a century later, the populist and self-proclaimed socialist is now 73 years old, and he’s running for president of the United States with a solid shot at second place in the Democratic nomination fight. Win or lose, he will force the frontrunner, Hillary Clinton, to take a serious look at his progressive platform, which resonates with a big chunk of the party’s base. “Today, we stand here and say loudly and clearly, enough is enough!” said Sanders on Tuesday evening at his official campaign kickoff in Vermont. “This great nation and its government belong to all of the people, and not to a handful of billionaires.”

“Here is my promise to you for this campaign,” Sanders continued. “Not only will I fight to protect the working families of this country, but we’re going to build a movement of millions of Americans who are prepared to stand up and fight back.”

For Sanders, who maintains he is running to win, pushing Clinton to the left would be fitting capstone to a lifetime spent agitating from the sidelines of powerful American institutions. As a teenager, he read Karl Marx, and as a college student he organized sit-ins against segregation, worked for a union, protested police brutality and attended the 1963 March on Washington. Throughout that time, the central theme of his life has never wavered. “We were concerned obviously about economic injustice,” says Sanders of his college days. “And we were concerned with the question, ‘How do you make change?’”

Sanders’ education in socialism began at home, in a three-and-a-half room apartment in Flatbush, Brooklyn. His father was a paint salesman from Poland and a high school dropout, and the family lived paycheck-to-paycheck. When Sanders’ father went with his wife to see the play The Death of a Salesman, his father so identified with the underemployed Willy Loman that he broke down in tears. “The lack of money caused stress in my family and fights between my mother and father,” Sanders explained to TIME in an interview this month. “That is a reality I have never forgotten: today, there are many millions of families who are living under the circumstances that we lived under.”

Bernie’s older brother, Larry, was a student at Brooklyn College who would come home and discuss Marx and Freud with the high school kid. They talked about democracy in ancient Greece, and Larry took the young Bernie to local Democratic Party meetings. Bernie followed his older brother to Brooklyn College, but when his mother died unexpectedly young, he left Brooklyn and transferred to the University of Chicago.

In Chicago, Sanders threw himself into activism—civil rights, economic justice, volunteering, organizing. “I received more of an education off campus than I did in the classroom,” Sanders says. By his 23rd birthday, Sanders had worked for a meatpackers union, marched for civil rights in Washington D.C., joined the university socialists and been arrested at a civil rights demonstration. He delivered jeremiads to young crowds. The police called him an outside agitator, Sanders said. He was a sloppy student, and the dean asked him to take a year off. He inspired his classmates. “He knows how to talk to people now,” said Robin Kaufman, a student who knew Sanders in 1960s Chicago, “and he knew how to do it then.” He was a radical before it was cool.

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He also met regularly with the Young Peoples Socialist League in the student center, where students talked about nuclear disarmament, former Socialist Party Presidential candidate Eugene V. Debs, the lessons of the Russian revolution, and how to implement socialism, though his vision did not match up with the already faltering Soviet experiment. He talks today about expanding government programs like social security and Medicare, and tuition-free college. “Should the government be running the restaurant across the street?” says Sanders today. “Obviously not!”

The civil rights movement also became a home for him. He became leaders [sic] of an NAACP ally called the Congress of Racial Equality at a time when most civil rights activists were black. He was arrested while demonstrating for desegregated public schools in Chicago. (No big deal, says Sanders: “You can go outside and get arrested, too!” he jokes. “It’s not that hard if you put your mind to it.”) He once walked around Chicago putting up fliers protesting police brutality. After half an hour, he realized a police car was following him, taking down every paper he’d up, one by one. “Are these yours?” he remembers the officer telling him, holding up the stack of the fliers.

In his second year at college, Sanders made national news. On a frigid Tuesday afternoon in January, 1962 the 20-year-old from Brooklyn stood on the steps of University of Chicago administration building and railed in the wind against the college’s housing segregation policy. “We feel it is an intolerable situation, when Negro and white students of the university cannot live together in university owned apartments,” the young bespectacled student told the few-dozen classmates gathered there. Then he led them into the building in protest, and camped the night outside the president’s office. It was Chicago’s first civil rights sit-in.

Decades later, Sanders rarely raises his past activism in public. In fact, he generally hates talking about his own story. During a recent interview with TIME, the senator from Vermont sunk deep into a sofa in his office and resigned himself to doing just that. “Too much of media looks at politics as a soap opera,” Sanders said in a deep bass. “I have my views, Ted Cruz has his views, that’s fine: let’s lay them out and let the American people decide.”

That aversion to storytelling is part of what makes Sanders a long shot for the Democratic nomination. He polls at around 15% in the early primary states compared with Hillary Clinton’s 60%. And his longtime aversion to the Democratic Party, which he only just formally joined, will be a headwind, as will explaining his identification with “socialism,” a virtual epithet in American politics. “Don’t underestimate me,” Sanders likes to tell reporters.

People who know Bernie best say that beneath the grumpy prognostications about social inequality and climate change is a softy at heart. A few months after he arrived at the University of Chicago, Sanders went to a center in a rough Chicago neighborhood run by a Quaker service group, the American Friends Service Committee. He ventured out to local apartments, painting walls. Back at the house, the 19-year-old was fascinated by the 2-month-old daughter of the home’s caretakers. His friends say he brings that spirit to politics. “His feeling for people is something he had back then, and it’s something he still has,” says Jim Rader, a friend of Sanders’ who ran the Quaker house in Chicago. “He always had a sympathy for the underdog.”

Sanders has lost six major elections since his race for high school class president. But persistence has brought him to his current post, and he’s seeking to be the oldest candidate ever to go to the White House. His goal, at the very least, is to foist his ideas in the Democratic primary. Now, as before, victory can be seen broadly: He can win the nomination himself, or embed his ideas with the person who does.

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THIS YOUNG BLACK SOCIAL JUSTICE WARRIOR ACTIVIST ERICA GARNER WAS THE DAUGHTER OF THE UNFORTUNATE ERIC GARNER WHO DIED IN A POLICE CHOKEHOLD (ILLEGAL AT THE TIME) FOR THE CRIME OF SELLING INDIVIDUAL CIGARETTES ON THE STREET FOR A LITTLE EXTRA MONEY. THIS KIND OF “VICTORY” DOES NOT MAKE POLICE MORE ADMIRABLE, BUT JUST THE OPPOSITE. IN MY VIEW, IT SHOWS THEM WALKING TOWARD A LOWER LEVEL OF HUMANITY RATHER THAN HIGHER.

https://www.cnn.com/2017/12/30/us/erica-garner-eric-death/index.html
Activist Erica Garner, 27, dies after heart attack
Eric Levenson
By Eric Levenson, CNN
Updated 3:24 PM ET, Sun December 31, 2017

PHOTOGRAPH -- Activist Erica Garner dies after heart attack 01:03
Source: CNN

(CNN)Erica Garner -- an activist for social justice and the eldest daughter of the man who died from a police choke hold in New York in 2014 -- died on Saturday morning days after suffering a heart attack, her mother Esaw Snipes said.

"She was a fighter, she was a warrior and she lost the battle," Snipes said of her daughter. "She never recovered from when her father died. She is in a better place."

Garner, 27, suffered from the effects of an enlarged heart after giving birth to her son three months ago, Snipes said.

"I warned her everyday, you have to slow down, you have to relax and slow down," she said.

Garner went into cardiac arrest earlier in the week and suffered major brain damage from a lack of oxygen, her Twitter account said.

"Erica the world loves you. I love you. I am glad you came into our lives. May you find the peace in the next life that you deserved while you were here. I will always love you my sister. love you," Garner's Twitter account, which is run by her family, said.

"When you report this you remember she was human: mother, daughter, sister, aunt. Her heart was bigger than the world. It really really was," her account said. "She cared when most people wouldn't have. She was good. She only pursued right, no matter what. No one gave her justice."

Erica Garner is the eldest daughter of Eric Garner, a 43-year-old father of six. In July 2014, police attempted to arrest Eric Garner for allegedly selling cigarrettes illegally in Staten Island. Video of the incident shows New York Police officer Daniel Pantaleo tackling Garner from behind and taking him to the ground using a department-banned chokehold.

Pushed for social justice, political change

Erica Garner campaigns for Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders during a campaign event at University of South Carolina on February 16, 2016.

Erica Garner campaigns for Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders during a campaign event at University of South Carolina on February 16, 2016.

Eric Garner, who had asthma, was pronounced dead that day. His apparent last words -- "I can't breathe! I can't breathe!" -- became a rallying cry for protesters and outraged citizens who said the incident showed that law enforcement abused their power and mistreated people of color.

His death was ruled a homicide, but a grand jury decided not to indict Pantaleo on criminal charges. The city of New York settled with Eric Garner's estate for $5.9 million in July 2015.

Erica Garner became a prominent activist in the wake of her father's death, pushing for political change and social justice broadly aligned with the Black Lives Matter movement.

She told CNN's Don Lemon in 2014 she believed her father's death had more to do with police misconduct than race.

"I can't really say it's a black and white issue," she said. "It's about the police officer and abusing their power."

During the 2016 Democratic presidential primaries, she endorsed Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont and prominently appeared in an ad for his campaign.

"I feel like a representative for people throughout this whole nation because I'm doing this. I'm speaking out, me being his daughter," she said in the ad. "That's what I want to do. I just want to tell my truth."

'Erica had to fight for justice'

A number of Black Lives Matter activists and prominent politicians have praised her life and fight over the past few days.

"When you were her friend, you (were) her friend through all adversity," activist Shaun King said on Twitter. "She was a fierce protector of her friends and family. A truth teller. As genuine and authentic of a soul you'll ever encounter. We're less because of this loss."

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, who has often been the target of Garner's criticisms, offered his condolences on Saturday.


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Erica Garner’s death is a horrible tragedy. I am praying for her family, who have already been through so much. This city will miss her unshakable sense of justice and passion for humanity.

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"Erica Garner's death is a horrible tragedy. I am praying for her family, who have already been through so much. This city will miss her unshakable sense of justice and passion for humanity," he said.

Sanders praised her as an "exceptional young woman" and offered his condolences.

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Though Erica didn't ask to be an activist, she responded to the personal tragedy of seeing her father die while being arrested in New York City by becoming a leading proponent for criminal justice reform and for an end to police brutality.


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I had the honor of getting to know Erica and I was inspired by the commitment she made working towards a more just world for her children and future generations. She was a fighter for justice and will not be forgotten.

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"I had the honor of getting to know Erica and I was inspired by the commitment she made working towards a more just world for her children and future generations. She was a fighter for justice and will not be forgotten," he said.

Some activists suggested the NYPD and its systems of power bore some responsibility for her death.

"The police killed her unarmed, nonviolent father with an illegal chokehold and got off with nary a word," Brittany Packnett, a leader in the Black Lives Matter movement and co-founder of Campaign Zero, said on Twitter. "Erica had to fight for justice. Then for her own life. She didn't deserve this. Her father didn't deserve this. Her family doesn't deserve this. All this for being Black in America. I can't."

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· Dec 28, 2017
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The police killed her unarmed, nonviolent father with an illegal chokehold and got off with nary a word.

You can not tell me Erica’s isn’t on the NYPD, too.


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Erica had to fight for justice.

Then for her own life.

She didn’t deserve this. Her father didn’t deserve this. Her family doesn’t deserve this.

All this for being Black in America.

I can’t.

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Rev. Al Sharpton made a similar point in lauding Erica Garner as a "warrior to the end" in her fight for justice on Saturday morning at a meeting with the National Action Network.

"Many will say that Erica died of a heart attack, but that's only partially true because her heart was already broken when she couldn't get justice for her father," he said. "Whatever the asthma and the others attacked was a piece of the heart left. Her heart was attacked by a system that would choke her dad and not hold accountable those that did it."

"If anything she would want us to do in memory of her is keep fighting for justice and keep fighting for families," he said.

CNN's Sheena Jones contributed to this report.



THE SANDERS FAMILY – CLEARLY A LOVING RELATIONSHIP. WE NEED MORE FAMILIES LIKE THAT.

A NOTICEABLY YOUNGER BERNIE SANDERS IN A DEBATE 1998 VIDEO

https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2015/10/09/bernie-sanders-debate-style-democrat-presidential-candidate-kaye-pkg-ac.cnn
What is Bernie Sanders' debate style?
Anderson Cooper 360
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Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has already posed a significant challenged [sic] to Hillary Clinton's campaign, but how will he do in the debate? CNN's Randi Kaye reports.


BERNIE AND JANE WITH CHILDREN

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FOCUSING ON JANE HERSELF

https://marriedwiki.com/article/meet-jane-o-meara-wife-of-american-politician-bernie-sanders-see-her-career-and-married-life
Meet Jane O'Meara, Wife of American politician Bernie Sanders. See her Career and Married Life

1 YEAR AGO | LAST MODIFIED : SEPTEMBER 26, 2017 | COMMENT BY RAJSHREE NAKARMI PHOTOGRAPH -- Jane O'Meara has a long career history being a social worker, college administrator, and political staffer. Her dedication to Goddard College and Burlington College as provost and an interim president was praiseworthy.

Her personal life is well associated with her husband Bernie Sanders as she is one of the key advisors of U.S. Senator. She is a mother of three kids from her previous relationship with David Driscoll.

Jane O'Meara: Her Married Life with Bernie Sanders

Jane and Bernie were together for seven years before they married in 1988. The couple exchanged vows in a civil ceremony and went for a honeymoon in the Soviet Union as the man himself is a Democratic socialist.

Both the pair married for the second time. Bernie previously lived his life with former wife Deborah Shiling just for 2 years. Similarly, David Driscoll was the first husband of Jane. They divorced shortly after the birth of her third son Dave.

Jane and her husband Bernie, Source: Twitter

Bernie brought his son, Levi from his earlier relationship into the grand marriage; she also brought her three children Heather, Carina, and Dave from her first marriage.

Bernie Family, Source: People

Bernie is, in fact, a lucky guy to have Jane as his life partner. She is one of the 'Key advisers' also works as 'an administrative assistant, spokeswoman, policy adviser, chief of staff, and media buyer'.


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Since Jane and Bernie have been in a marital relationship since 29 years, we can definitely say that they have an intimate bond.

Jane O'Meara: See Her Career

Initially, Jane dedicated herself in the Juvenile Division of the Burlington Police Department and later joined the King Street Area Youth Center and also worked for VISTA.

Additionally, she served as founding Director of the Mayor's Youth Office and Department Head in the City of Burlington. She is also the founder of the Women's Council & the Film Commission.

When her husband Bernie Sanders was elected to the U.S. Congress in 1991, she worked in his office as a volunteer till 1995.

Furthermore, the lady was appointed as Provost and Interim President of Goddard College and later became the president of Burlington College.

She earned an attractive salary from Burlington $149,380/year along with some incentives. As she was the senior partner in the Burlington-based organization, she worked for federal, state, and local political campaigns.

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Meara [sic] played a key role founding The Sanders Institute, a progressive company launched in June 2017.

Quick Facts about Jane O'Meara
Source: Niptara

Born on 3 January 1950 in New York City, New York as one of the five kids of Bernadette Joan and Benedict P. O'Meara.
Raised in Catholic and studied in Catholic schools.

Attended the University of Tennessee at Knoxville.
Finished her college degree at Goddard College in Plainfield, Vermont.

Gained a doctorate in leadership studies in politics and education from Union Institute & University.
Her networth is estimated to be around $3 million and her husband's net worth is estimated to be $436,000 as of 2017.

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