This woman has a long history of acting like a complete and total a**hole.
...in February 1998, things finally came to a head. On a flight home to Houston, Jackson Lee became enraged when flight attendants failed to produce the seafood special she liked. "Don't you know who I am?" she reportedly thundered. "I'm Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee. Where is my seafood meal? I know it was ordered!"
...at a March 2, 1998, reenactment of the march on Selma, an irate Jackson Lee called her scheduler in D.C. demanding to know why she hadn't been given a ride to the event by the organizer, as a white colleague had been. According to the aide--who quit after just a month and a half on the job--Jackson Lee shrieked, "You don't understand. I am a queen, and I demand to be treated like a queen."
For details of this and more of her true craziness, see:
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000%5C000%5C000%5C867aejst.asp
That Lee is a member of Congress is proof of reverse racism. I’m happy to explain this in more detail for those who don’t see it that way. We tolerate people like this in our high level elected offices because we have come to accept and look the other way when there is an issue of race. That, in and of itself, is perpetuating racism. There are so many great and qualified minorities in the country that are never heard, but we tolerate someone like Lee who is arrogant, vituperative, and ill-informed.
A friend of mine used to be a bank manager in Houston. Back when she was still a teller, sjl came in to cash a check. She had never seen her before and asked her for her id. Well, sjl started on the “don’t you know who I am?????” She apparently made quite a scene, but my friend was firm and insisted on seeing her id.