Bernie Sanders’s campaign manager recalls his tumultuous time at Boston University
Jeff Weaver, the Vermont senator's longtime confidant, met Sanders only after he was "thrown out" of BU.
The 2016 Democratic presidential primaries were hardly the first time Jeff Weaver, the campaign manger for Bernie Sanders, found himself at odds with institutional forces.
In an Off Message podcast interview with Politico’s Glenn Thrush, the Vermont senator’s closest aide recalled his activist days as a student at Boston University, which eventually led to him getting “thrown out” of the school.
Weaver said he got involved in the anti-apartheid movement as a BU student in the 1980s, protesting the university’s stock holdings in companies that did business with then-segregated South Africa.
John Silber—BU’s polarizing 25-year president, known for, among other things, his heavy-handed approach to protests— was also at the school at the time. Needless to say, Weaver was not a fan.
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