Posted on 12/28/2017 4:06:37 AM PST by Liz
Democrat Lee regularly plays the race card and treats her staffers so badly that she was once named the "meanest member of Congress".....she was also voted “Biggest Windbag” from 1998 through 2006, except for 2000 when the category wasn’t included.
Her latest occurred when United booted DC teacher Jean Marie Simon from a first-class seat booked in advance and gave the cushy space to Lee. The 22-year veteran Houston lawmaker responded to Simon's outrage by lashing out.
LEE: “Since this was not any fault of mine, the way the individual continued to act appeared to be, upon reflection, because I was an African American woman, seemingly an easy target,” she wrote on Twitter.
The combative Lee — a graduate of Yale and the U of Virginia Law School blew a gasket when she couldn’t get seafood on a Continental flight. “Don’t you know who I am? I’m Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee!” she bellowed.
Lee, 67, has developed a reputation as the boss from hell, treating her staffers like chattel and abusing them to the point that many fed-up aides have quit in disgust. “I am a queen, and I demand to be treated like a queen,” she once declared to an underling.
The Houston Press reported that five of Lee’s staffers quit in disgust that spring. In 2011, the Huffington Post and Houston Chronicle reported that she had gone through 11 chiefs of staff in 11 years.
That same year, the Daily Caller reported that she routinely referred to one staff member as “You stupid motherf—er,” threw her cell phone at another and demanded to be chauffeured by car when travelling between House office buildings, which are connected by tunnels. Jackson Lee also has a comical history of off-the-wall statements — and a number where she’s played the race card.
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She is then the “TX windbag,” as people in TX will always adore her!
I find it quite interesting this Sheila Jackson Lee story continues to play given she is a Democrat and a minority. Her bad behavior has been going on for years and the press and the party have given her a pass until now. It almost seems as though someone pulling strings behind the scenes in the Democrat Party has decided she needs to go. Corrine Brown of Florida was another racial minority boorish Democrat who was actually prosecuted for corruption very late during the Obama administration and has been convicted and sentenced to prison during the past year. John Conyers has also fallen in the past year. Are the Democrats intentionally pushing some of the older minority members of Congress out to give younger minorities a seat at the table?
...“Don’t you know who I am?...”
This woman is not just mean, vindictive and racist, she is also quite stupid. If Spy magazine was still around to hand out their annual “Dumbest person in Congress” awards, she would be the perpetual front-runner on the House side.
Good points.
The story does seem to have legs....surprisingly chronically her boorish behavior.
And her habit of playing the race card on every frickin’ occasion.
Could be! Jackson Lee is an obnoxious clown who should have crashed and burned a long time ago. From a GOP point of view she is gold for being such a fool, but the Dem naturally want a more positive image.
Her depictions of herself as a “queen” reveals her ignorance .....this is a republic....not a monarchy.
What must the Founders think, seeing such a loathsome creature as this denigrating their remarkable legacy ?!
One can easily imagine, on encountering such as SJL, their outward civility and inner disgust.
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We, the people, need to cut these govt ***holes down to size. Not just the despicable Sheila J/L....but the whole frickin cartload of the SOB’s.
Cut their office budgets....cut their staff size....cut off their perks and privileges....etc etc etc.
In Congress, they lead lives of leisure, their every whim financed by our tax dollars.
Like their lords or kings in a monarchy.......helping themselves to the tax dollars they extort from the citizenry they treat as peons.
This has got to stop.
Our rulers don’t seem to understand just how tired their white subjects are with this experiment. They don’t understand that white people aren’t out to get black people; they are just exhausted with them.
They are exhausted by the social pathologies, the violence, the endless complaints, the blind racial solidarity, the bottomless pit of grievances, the excuses, the reflexive animosity.
The elites explain everything with “racism,” and refuse to believe that white frustration could soon reach the boiling point.
A previous report noted the po’ black Congresslady ——just freed from slavery——has “global status” w/ United.
WHAT IS GLOBAL STATUS?-—United’s Global Services, introduced around 2003, is an unpublished, invitation only level of status in the United MileagePlus Premier program that is designed to reward its most profitable customers with an exceptional level of service. While United doesn’t publish a specific list of benefits for Global Services, there are some that have been publicly disclosed, while others are more ad hoc that we detail below.
How to qualify for Global Services-—This is probably the most opaque part of the Global Services program. There are no published qualification requirements but generally people who qualify…....
Spend a significant amount of money on United operated flights relative to other Premier level fliers (some think this means $50,000 or more per year, but it varies) Concentrate much of that spending on full fares (Y/B in Economy, F/J/C/D in Business / First Class)
Some members qualify with less of the above via…Influencing a significant amount of corporate travel spending.Being a relatively large spender in a home airport with unique competitive situation Having flown over 4 million lifetime miles on United and receiving lifetime Global Services status.
Being designated as the annual companion of a lifetime Global Services member Even with those guidelines, nothing is set in stone, as a variety of factors are used which constantly change to determine Global Services eligibility.
Invitations to Global Services are sent early each calendar year.
What are the possible benefits?
<><> Global Services members get the base Premier level benefits of the status level they qualify for (which more often than not is Premier 1K) and in addition to those benefits, they have been reported to receive these additional benefits, though since they are mostly unpublished they may change at any time:
<><>Highest priority on lists for Complimentary Premier Upgrades, trumping 1Ks and all other Premier members. One exception is if a Premier member buys a high Y/B/M fare and gets an instant upgrade to First Class, while a Global Services member is flying on a discount fare. Global Services members get upgraded into the ‘PN’ fare bucket at their upgrade window, which tends to be more generous than the ‘RN’ bucket used for other elites (read more about United fare codes here).
Expanded upgrade inventory for upgrading with miles / certificates. Global Services members get to upgrade into the ‘PN’ fare bucket when upgrading from Coach using miles, Global Premier Upgrades, or Regional Premier Upgrades. This fare bucket ties more closely to actual revenue ticket availability than upgrade / award inventory for non Global Services members, which comes out of the ‘R’ bucket.
Award ticket upgrades. Global Services members have the ability to upgrade award tickets with their Regional and Global Upgrade certificates. Saver awards for companions. If you’re flying on a paid premium cabin ticket, you can bring along a companion for the Saver level number of miles, even if Saver awards aren’t available on that flight.
Access to Global First Class lounges. When flying on a Business Class ticket, Global Services members can use the United Global First Class lounges, which are typically reserved for passengers in Global First on 3 cabin planes. The lounges are available at San Francisco, Washington Dulles, Chicago, Hong Kong, Tokyo, and London Heathrow.
Priority boarding.
If you fly United a lot, you hear this whenever the gate agent makes the boarding announcement. Global Services members get their own private boarding time, just before 1Ks, First Class, and other priority travelers board.
Private check-in. At Newark, Chicago, and San Francisco airports Global Services members get to use a private check-in facility with a door that opens to the very front of the priority security line. Los Angeles will be getting a Global Services check-in lobby when renovations of that terminal are complete.
Priority check-in. At airports without a Global Services facility, there are often counter positions assigned to serve Global Services members first.
Mercedes Benz transfer.
United will pick some Global Services members with tight connections from the jetway in a Mercedes Benz to reach a connecting flight. This is available at all U.S. hubs (San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, Newark, Denver, Washington Dulles, and Houston).
First meal choice. When sitting in First or Business Class, Global Services members have top priority for getting their choice from the menu.
Priority reservations. Global Services members get top priority when calling United reservations, and have typically been handled by agents dedicated to serving Global Services customers.
"In 1997, while on a trip to the Mars Pathfinder operations center in California, Jackson Lee asked if the Pathfinder had succeeded in taking a picture of the flag planted on Mars by Neil Armstrong in 1969. Needless to say, Jackson Lee, then a member of the House Science Committee, had confused Mars with the Moon."
Perfect response...
"You mean like Marie Antoinette?"
Of course, Sheila probably has no idea who that was and wouldn't understand the reference.
Watta an idiot.....profs at Yale and U/VA Law School that passed her should be terminated.
She’s the poster slob for affirmative action.
LEE: “Marie, who?”
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoO6CU-aA6s
Sheila Jackson Lee Calls Trump Racist and Kneels on Congressional Floor
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...... and she thinks The Constitution is 400 years old. What an embarrassment to government and humanity.
Ultimately, whose fault is this? United Airlines. This is no different than blaming illegal alien parasites for being here. It was in our power to keep them out. “We” (those of us in power) let them in.
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