All About Jane
(thanks to Appalachiablue for link - http://www.democraticunderground.com/12808814 )
Like Bernie, 74, Jane, nine years younger, grew up in the Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn, some 15 blocks from Bernie, whose family lived in a cramped three-and-a-half room apartment. He was raised Jewish, she Catholic. They did not know each other in Brooklyn.
They both landed in Burlington, Vt., he in the mid-1960s; she in 1975, where they met during his first campaign for mayor. (Melania met Donald at the Kit Kat Club in Manhattan). In an interview with Vermont Business Magazine, Jane recalled: "I went with the Neighborhood Organization folks to a meeting with the then Mayor and they asked questions. I didn't feel we were getting direct answers, so I started asking questions. They said, 'You sound like Bernie Sanders now!' I sat down and said, 'Who's Bernie Sanders?' They said, 'He's running for mayor.' I said, 'Let's organize a debate.' So we did. ... [W]hen I heard him speak, well, that was it. ... We met at the victory party, and that was the beginning of forever." (Sanders went on to win that election by 10 votes.)
Bernie and Jane were together for seven years before they married in 1988 as he reached the end of his tenure as mayor. (Sanders was mayor from 1981 to 1989 before winning Vermont's only U.S. House seat in 1990, and, in 2006, a seat in the U.S. Senate.) They married in a civil ceremony and "honeymooned" in the Soviet Union, as perhaps befits a man who calls himself a Democratic socialist. The trip was mostly business, putting the finishing touches on a sister-city tie between Burlington and Yaroslavl, Russia. (Jane and Bernie traveled with 10 others from Burlington to seal the tie to Yaroslavl, leaving the day after their wedding. In his memoir, Bernie, who also forged sister ties with Bethlehem in the West Bank and Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua, described the trip as "a very strange honeymoon."
He brought a son from an earlier relationship into the marriage; she brought three children from her first marriage.
Like Jill Biden, whose title "Dr." (a Ph.D.) almost always proceeds her name, Jane Sanders has a doctorate (from the Union Institute), but, unlike Biden, mostly skips the honorific. She has been provost and interim president of Vermont's Goddard College (from 1996 to 1997), from which she had graduated with a degree in social work. In 2004, she became president of the tiny, private, progressive (no grades) Burlington College. The school, overlooking Lake Champlain, prides itself on educating transfer and nontraditional students; the median age when Jane was president was 24. During her tenure, the school had 275 students and an endowment of about $150,000.
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http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/presidential-campaign/256523-jane-omeara-sanders-future-first-lady
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For LOVEBIRDS Everywhere..
Senator Bernie Sanders and wife Jane Sanders in front of the US Capitol in 1990.
~ "Yes, she is a soulmate, a sounding board" ~ Bernie Sanders about Jane. 
Here's mine:
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Here's their wedding pic:
And, another of the family after the wedding:
Such an authentic couple. So proud to support Bernie and Jane.
Future First Lady!
