Morning Jolt: Don’t Blame ‘Sexism’ for the Demise of Jane Sanders’s College

Maybe it's "sexism" that's driving the investigation into Jane Sanders, the wife of Vermont senator Bernie Sanders, as she claims . . . or maybe not.

The story is convoluted, but one thing is clear: Jane Sanders has had enough of [attorney and state GOP vice chairman Brady] Toensing and his tactics.

"I find it incredibly sexist that basically he's going after my husband by destroying my reputation, and that's not OK," she said in her first interview about the man responsible for an FBI probe that centers on her leadership at Burlington College, a small liberal arts school on Lake Champlain that she led from 2004 to 2011.

But did you know that the college Sanders ran shut down last year? It's an ugly story, and it's hard to shake the sense that whether or not financial fraud was involved, the college grew ...

July 17 2017

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Don't Blame 'Sexism' for the Demise of Jane Sanders's College

Jim Geraghty

Maybe it's "sexism" that's driving the investigation into Jane Sanders, the wife of Vermont senator Bernie Sanders, as she claims . . . or maybe not.

The story is convoluted, but one thing is clear: Jane Sanders has had enough of [attorney and state GOP vice chairman Brady] Toensing and his tactics.

"I find it incredibly sexist that basically he's going after my husband by destroying my reputation, and that's not OK," she said in her first interview about the man responsible for an FBI probe that centers on her leadership at Burlington College, a small liberal arts school on Lake Champlain that she led from 2004 to 2011.

But did you know that the college Sanders ran shut down last year? It's an ugly story, and it's hard to shake the sense that whether or not financial fraud was involved, the college grew ...

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