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Congressional bosses from Hell: Sheila Jackson Lee
The Daily Caller ^ | 03/02/2011 | Jonathan Strong

Posted on 03/02/2011 7:09:59 AM PST by TexasCajun

She’ll make you wait

“I am a queen, and I demand to be treated like a queen,” Jackson Lee once said, and apparently she wasn’t kidding. Her employees describe waiting for their boss for hours on end, sometimes late into the night, while she attends events or even sits in her office watching TV.

“You worked really, really, really late for her. When she was in town, you were in the office. So that meant, two, three, four o’clock in the morning – we were there,” one former staffer said.

“She liked to hold her staff meetings — she would individually pull in the deputy chief of staff, myself and some other people individually to go over different parts of her day. But she would literally wait until super late at night. None of us could go home, because she wouldn’t tell when she was coming back or if she wasn’t. And if she called and you didn’t answer, it was like World War III,” the source said.

Jackson Lee’s designated driver picks her up at her apartment one block from her office each morning and waits for her outside wherever she goes throughout the days and nights.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: 112th; bossfromhell; cbc; civility; democrat; democratcivility; democrats; liberalfascism; liberals; mean; pompousass; progressives; queensheila; rudedems
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To: TexasCajun
As the car drove away, a Secret Service van flashed its lights behind them. “Keep driving,” Jackson Lee told her staffer. Ultimately, the driver pulled over in defiance of the boss’s wishes. At this point, Jackson Lee emerged from the car, screaming, “I’m Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee! Who do you think you are?” to a team of Secret Service agents.

Jackson Lee accused the “white” agent at the gate of racism, claiming she wouldn’t have to deal with “this stuff” when Barack Obama became president. She then filed a formal complaint with the Secret Service, which prompted an investigation. A Treasury official later explained that the accusation had been dismissed because the agent in question was Hispanic, not white.

41 posted on 03/02/2011 7:36:44 AM PST by TexasCajun
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To: TexasCajun

She also goes to every Texas-related event in the Capitol and tries to take credit for whatever has been done, money appropriated etc. when she has had nothing to do with the subject at hand. Among the Texas congressional delegation, Dims and Republicans alike, it is a joke, and she is a joke.


42 posted on 03/02/2011 7:37:06 AM PST by La Lydia
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To: TexasCajun
“’You stupid mother-effer’ was like a constant,” says one. “Like, all the time. But the interesting thing is she would really project that behavior more towards her African American staffers.
43 posted on 03/02/2011 7:38:27 AM PST by TexasCajun
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To: austingirl

She can read?


44 posted on 03/02/2011 7:38:59 AM PST by Stosh
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To: TSgt

The bar of soap is clean and smells good. That’s a difference.


45 posted on 03/02/2011 7:39:15 AM PST by MortMan (What disease did cured ham used to have?)
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To: austingirl

The sad part, there is a whole congressional district of Sheila Jackson Lees.


46 posted on 03/02/2011 7:40:30 AM PST by TexasCajun
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To: TexasCajun

I have a friend who used to work in a bank in Houston. One day sjl comes in to cash a check. My friend didn’t know her from a box of rocks and asked for her ID. She got the “Don’t you know who I am???!!!! How dare you ask for my ID.” My friend stood her ground and made her show it.


47 posted on 03/02/2011 7:40:49 AM PST by reformed_dem
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To: OldEagle

Congressional staffers are, for the most part, salaried employees and are not paid overtime. Only the lowest on the totem poll, data entry, phone answering, etc. get overtime. Everyone else just sucks it up. They can keep track of their hours and claim comp time, but that pretty much puts an end to their career advancement. This is one of the reasons they bail out to K Street and the associations.


48 posted on 03/02/2011 7:43:16 AM PST by La Lydia
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To: TexasCajun

...member of the Science Committee...

Worth highlighting.

Is there any wonder this country is in the mess it's in when ignoramuses like this run things?

49 posted on 03/02/2011 7:43:50 AM PST by Paine in the Neck (Napolean fries the idea powder.)
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To: TexasCajun
And yet for all the nastiness, Jackson Lee also exhibits a zany side. She regularly asks that documents be printed in different colors. She has staff drive her from the Rayburn building to the Cannon building to attend homeland security hearings. She sometimes demands two staffers in two cars pick her up from the airport, one for her, the other for her luggage. On one occasion, she demanded an aide wear a green hat when picking her up.

Can't believe I'm saying this but that green hat is actually a good idea for identifying a staffer if you're not quite sure who it is. More secure than the staffer holding up a sign with her name on it too. Maybe the only good idea she's had after all those years in Congress.

50 posted on 03/02/2011 7:48:03 AM PST by Snickering Hound
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To: TexasCajun
And the article concludes with this gem:

Jackson Lee’s speeches are frequent and eccentric enough to have occasioned a game in other Capitol Hill offices.

Every day, one staffer puts money into a Sheila Jackson Lee jar.

If she speaks on the House floor, as she usually does, the jar moves to the next desk.

On the rare day she doesn’t speak, the staffer holding the jar wins all the money

51 posted on 03/02/2011 7:48:16 AM PST by TexasCajun
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To: andonte
What kind of morons vote for this hag?

Stupid ones.

52 posted on 03/02/2011 7:51:11 AM PST by Jeff Chandler (Judas Iscariot - the first social justice advocate. John 12:3-6)
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To: Jeff Chandler

Unintended consequence of the Voting Rights Act..


53 posted on 03/02/2011 7:54:24 AM PST by ken5050 (Admin Moderators rule!!!!)
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To: MrB
She’s probably the “best and brightest” in her gerrymandered district congress.
54 posted on 03/02/2011 7:55:01 AM PST by Jeff Chandler (Judas Iscariot - the first social justice advocate. John 12:3-6)
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To: TexasCajun
Does this ugly pig know how ignorant she is..She will be elected over and over unless the district she is in is redistricted..They don't care how stupid any of these morons are as long as they have brown skin..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XK3rTUgoQD4&feature=player_embedded

55 posted on 03/02/2011 7:55:01 AM PST by PLD
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To: TSgt

It shouldn’t be too hard for a couple of the staffers, who know that they are going to quit, set her up with some kind of video sting.

It would be simple, have a small video camera with adequate miking wait in some place where she is going to be, and have someone push a few of her buttons. It could be on YouTube in minutes.

Better yet, store up a few and have them leak out as a series.

Gosh that would be fun.


56 posted on 03/02/2011 7:55:39 AM PST by glorgau
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To: Snickering Hound
Can't believe I'm saying this but that green hat is actually a good idea for identifying a staffer if you're not quite sure who it is.

Might be fun to pass out dozens of green hats to random people at the airport waiting to pick someone up on the appointed day. It might produce an epic storm of 'Who are you? Get the hell out of my car, lady!'.

57 posted on 03/02/2011 7:58:33 AM PST by Riley (The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column.)
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To: TexasCajun
“I am a queen, and I demand to be treated like a queen,”

This country began with ousting royalty, now we elect royalty to Congress.

All peoples deserve their respective governments.

58 posted on 03/02/2011 8:01:00 AM PST by TopQuark
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To: TexasCajun

Sounds like (among her many other faults/flaws) she doesn’t know how to tell time.

Someone once said: ‘You can judge a person three ways-

• Who did you marry?
• How do you deal with death?
• How do you treat subordinates?’


59 posted on 03/02/2011 8:04:32 AM PST by SMARTY (Conforming to non-conformity is conforming just the same.)
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To: TopQuark

I’ve never heard anything about real queens in the modern era like Queen Elizabeth treating her staff in anything like this manner. I’ve met two members of royalty (not England’s) and both of them were reserved, dignified, intelligent, polite and considerate- including and especially to people who were serving them.


60 posted on 03/02/2011 8:10:56 AM PST by Riley (The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column.)
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