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West attended the University of Vermont and obtained a Master"s degree. Before starting her career in television news, she was an Assistant Professor at the university. West"s husband Wade West is a former political strategist for both Democrats and Republicans, including presidential cabinet members and the Bush and Clinton administrations.

As a health reporter she traveled to Canada to report on its health care system and to the Ukraine to report on the 10th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster and its health effects. On October 23, , West interviewed Democratic vice-presidential candidate Joe Biden with questions she personally wrote. The Obama campaign responded saying "This station"s interview with Joe Biden wasn"t tough — it was just absurd.

We ask questions on behalf of viewers. Her performance was criticized as a "desperate audition for a primetime job at Fox News", considered a partisan stunt after she gave a soft interview to Republican candidate John McCain and West was characterized as exhibiting conservative bias. Others said that these characterizations were unfair and that Biden had overreacted.

A few noted her husband"s connections with the Republican Party, questioning if that was an influencing factor.

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West attempted and failed to deflect criticisms by promoting her husband"s relationships with the Clinton Administration State Department and the Department of Justice Office of Civil Rights Enforcement. Now, West is considered to be a foreshadow of the irrational hostility and obstructionism exhibited by rightwing extremists throughout President Obama"s tenure.

While there, she won the Mission Vermont contest and was selected to represent her state in the national Mission America competition. On her official biography page on WFTV. Bush and covering the impeachment of President Bill Clinton. Obama"s Florida spokeswoman called West "both combative and woefully uninformed about simple facts.

Mission America is an annual competition open to women from the United States between the ages of 17 and