Where did Jane Sanders report her $200K in severance pay in 2011? Could someone who knows

[Hassin Bin Sober]

5. It was paid out for two years

This is kind of funny. Now I know where the “golden parachute” malarkey came from.

Some butt hurt mini Koch brother Bernie busted for gas price fixing.

The “golden parachute” to which Vallee’s ad refers is the $200,000 that Jane Sanders was paid by the college during the two-year period after her resignation from the institution in October of 2011.

Asked to the respond to the allegation, Sanders’ spokesman Michael Briggs called Vallee a “junior varsity version of the Koch brothers” and said Sanders “will not be intimidated by a millionaire who has crawled into the gutter and bought TV ads attacking Bernie’s wife for a sabbatical she earned from a college where she was president for seven years.”

Briggs said in a written statement that the motivation behind the attack ad is readily apparent to anyone familiar with the history between Sanders and Vallee.

“Skip Vallee has ripped off customers for years at his Burlington-area gas stations that sell the highest-priced gas anywhere in Vermont,” Briggs said. “Vallee clearly doesn’t like it that Bernie has exposed his ripoffs.”

Sanders in 2012 asked federal regulators to investigate what he characterized as “artificially high” gas prices in Chittenden, Grande Isle and Franklin counties, where 58 percent of the gas market is controlled by four companies, Vallee’s among them.

After Sanders’ threw his support behind a Costco’s proposal to install a gas station at its existing store in Colchester – a move he said would bolster gas-market competition – Vallee responded by paying to air a 30-second attack ad in late 2012. The ad accused Sanders of snubbing the state’s “treasured history of protecting our natural environment” by siding “with a multi-national, billion-dollar corporation over Vermonters.”