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To: ETL

Is that a real quote???


43 posted on 11/06/2018 1:21:50 PM PST by Campion ((marine dad))
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To: Campion
Is that a real quote???

According to the following site, no.

https://www.truthorfiction.com/rep-sheila-jackson-lee-blames-washington-derailment-trumps-hatred-african-americans-fiction/

I'll ask the mods to remove the post. Sure seemed like something the idiot would say.

45 posted on 11/06/2018 1:34:45 PM PST by ETL (Obama-Hillary, REAL Russia collusion! Uranium-One Deal, Missile Defense, Iran Deal, Nukes: Click ETL)
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To: Campion

Bumped United passenger fires back at Rep. Jackson Lee’s racism charge, airline

Barnini Chakraborty, Judson Berger, | Fox News
Dec 2017

A United passenger whose first-class seat on a recent flight from Houston to D.C. was given to Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee is firing back at the Democratic congresswoman’s accusations of racism – while challenging the airline’s account of the incident.

Jean-Marie Simon, an attorney and private school teacher, became the latest face of airline passenger woes when she detailed on Facebook and later to the news media how she lost her seat to the Texas lawmaker.

But despite a statement from United seeking to explain the switch-out, she’s not giving up the fight. And the congresswoman’s response – essentially claiming Simon made a scene because Jackson Lee, as an African-American woman, is an “easy target” – did not calm the waters.

Simon, in an interview with Fox News, rejected the racism allegation.

“That could have been Donald Duck in my seat,” Simon, a Democrat, told Fox News on Thursday. “I could not see who had boarded the flight. I didn’t even know who she was.”

Simon originally accused United of bumping her from her first-class seat on a Dec. 18 flight in order to accommodate the Texas congresswoman.

At first, Simon didn’t know who was in her seat as she argued at the gate. United eventually gave her a $500 voucher and reseated her in the economy plus section. In her original Facebook post, Simon said another Texas congressman then informed her a fellow member of the delegation was in her seat, and “regularly does this” to passengers. ...”

more at link

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/bumped-united-passenger-fires-back-at-rep-jackson-lees-racism-charge-airline


46 posted on 11/06/2018 1:37:22 PM PST by ETL (Obama-Hillary, REAL Russia collusion! Uranium-One Deal, Missile Defense, Iran Deal, Nukes: Click ETL)
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