I saw Jane Sanders on tv this morning and I had a bit of an epiphany.

[Fla Dem]

36. Just this excerpt alone say alot about her :

One of the greatest ironies of Jane's candidacy for college president is in fact that she has personally benefited from all of the problems that she and Greene visited on the community. It must be remembered that Jane was the chair of the presidential search committee that chose Greene. It is her name that you will find on the contract with Greene, a contract that contained a corporate style "golden" parachute which required the school to pay him big bucks in order to buy out his contract after he resigned. Sanders was the president of the board during Greene's entire tenure and was the power behind Greene during that period. Had she been democratically oriented the problem with Greene would have been solved the day he walked in the door. Without her support he could not have acted autocratically, unilaterally, and in a retaliatory manner. Jane, as board president, was directly involved in:

-Corrupting existing democratic processes at the college and acting as the primary apologist for the autocratic policies and practices of Richard Greene

-Orchestrating the formal approval of a budget (1996-7) that eliminated essential services, was politically retaliatory in nature, and excessively costly in administrative overhead

-Ensuring approval at the board level of what amounted to a faculty purge -- the termination of 16 employees in 1996

-Suppressing criticism and stifling dissent

-Enabling Greene to render existing governance committees ineffective by rescinding the decision-making authority that had been delegated to legitimate standing committees and depriving them of necessary information

-Stonewalling proposals for the design and implementation of progressive organizational development processes, including a performance appraisal process for the president, climate analysis of the college, and strategic planning

-Suppressing the open discussion of proposals for progressive structural change in the college's governance processes

-Creating an environment where an inordinate number of talented and committed staff felt compelled to resign

-Stalling the efforts toward faculty/staff unionization

I added the bold. Great progressive, stifling unionization.


And of course we have her disastrous tenure (2004 - 2011) as Burlington College President.

http://vtdigger.org/2011/09/27/jane-sanders-resigns-presidency-of-burlington-college-reaches-settlement/

Bernie and Jane should be thanking their lucky stars he's not going to be the nominee. This is just the tip of the iceberg from which the RW smear campaign would smear them.