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United Airlines Accused of Evicting Woman from First Class Seat to Make Room for Democrat
Breitbart ^ | 24 Dec 20170 | Katherine Rodriguez

Posted on 12/26/2017 7:05:04 AM PST by Texas Fossil

An attorney and private school teacher from Washington, DC, is accusing United Airlines of removing her from her first-class seat only to give the seat to Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX).

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Airline staff told Simon the seat was taken and gave her a $500 voucher, along with another ticket for the same flight in Economy Plus.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: airline; bumped; congressman; jacksonlee; ntsa; ual; united
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To: trisham

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61 posted on 12/26/2017 8:06:48 AM PST by Liz (One side in this conflict has 8 Trillion bullets; the other side doesnt know which bathroom to use.)
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To: blueunicorn6
Those Democrats all talk a lot of socialism until it comes to them, personally.

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62 posted on 12/26/2017 8:07:20 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Psephomancers for Hillary!)
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To: Eddie01

“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.”

__________________________

Whoopi personifies this to a T.


63 posted on 12/26/2017 8:09:51 AM PST by Chauncey Gardiner
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

Some pigs are more equal than others!


64 posted on 12/26/2017 8:09:55 AM PST by cgbg (Hidden behind the social justice warrior mask is corruption and sexual deviance.)
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To: Texas Fossil

Just don’t crack jokes, don’t say anything to those badge’d up creeps, take your stuff and just move along. I have a special bag of stuff that even they can’t touch; all I have to do is show them MY badge (I carry on the flight deck and have a federal badge to do so).


65 posted on 12/26/2017 8:12:21 AM PST by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~)
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To: Vlad The Inhaler
As if they were sent here to sacrifice their personal lives to serve America and the citizens of their cities, states and the USA itself.

If this were true, you would not find their family wealth increasing by amazing amounts over the years. Harry Reid retired a multi-millionaire after starting his government CAREER almost as a pauper but that is almost a common story for everyone there.

66 posted on 12/26/2017 8:12:56 AM PST by SES1066 (Happiness is a depressed Washington, DC housing market!)
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To: Vaduz

I’ve figured out how the system works.

I was in the airport on a busy travel weekend when flights were overbooked. They paid 5 people $2,000 each to bump. I managed to get a $500 voucher plus a replacement on a short shuttle.

Since I only live 10 to 15 minutes from the airport, it pays to book my travel for leisure with extra time to be bumped. I pick up several thousand dollars a year this way.

I’ve had them rebook connecting flights, pay for hotels and meals, .... You need to know what weekends, which flights, and when to hold for a higher pay to bump.

Yes,it’s a game with a strategy. But it pays.


67 posted on 12/26/2017 8:16:29 AM PST by tired&retired (Blessings)
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To: a real Sheila

She was driven to the airplane by ATL PD. Via the tarmac and when the PD car opened the door she was at the foot of the stairs. I am a living witness to this.


68 posted on 12/26/2017 8:26:07 AM PST by WeWaWes (When I look in the mirror I see an elephant--a bad ass elephant)
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To: ExTxMarine
It sounds like United screwed this woman over

That is exactly what happened. UA decided to screw with one of their passengers to provide the ordinary treatment that Congresswoman Lee has grown accustomed with.

Lee's office said she asked for nothing beyond the ordinary and expected nothing beyond the ordinary. Because UA knows they have been giving her the preferential (ordinary) treatment for a long time.

I remember when George W., after giving a State of the Union speech would go out of his way to acknowledge Congresswoman Lee. He knew she was trouble and needed to minimize damages.

69 posted on 12/26/2017 8:26:41 AM PST by Dustoff45 ( Do not kick the can on DACA, call 911)
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To: Fightin Whitey

Excellent likeness


70 posted on 12/26/2017 8:30:23 AM PST by BigEdLB (To Dimwitocrats: We won. You lost. Get used to it.)
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To: Texas Fossil

Hopefully there is an lovely indictment in her future like some other crooked CongressCretins have gotten recently.


71 posted on 12/26/2017 8:34:33 AM PST by Gasshog (When in trouble or in doubt, run in circles scream and shout!)
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To: Gasshog

Embezzlement and fraud?

Probably present.


72 posted on 12/26/2017 8:36:41 AM PST by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: tired&retired
When I worked for GTE (pre-Verizon days), I used to fly from Dallas to Tampa about once a quarter. The last two flights from Tampa to Dallas on Friday nights were ALWAYS overbooked! So, I would schedule for either of these flights and I averaged about $800 in vouchers per bump, a free hotel stay, a free dinner and a First Class flight on Saturday morning (with free alcohol and breakfast)! Same thing from Seattle to Dallas!! WORKS LIKE A CHARM! If you know how to play the strategy game!

Every once in a while you get some "newbie" that takes the first $100 offer, which slows down the offers - and THAT'S how you knew they were a "newbie"!! UGH!! LOL!
73 posted on 12/26/2017 8:40:30 AM PST by ExTxMarine (Diversity is tolerance; diverse points of views will not be tolerated!)
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To: SkyDancer
Untied[sic] does have a PR problem but they shrug it off as they’re too big to fail.

They shrug it off, because people like She-Jackass-Lee would never let them fail...it would mean she might have to lug her big-a$$ on a Southwest Airlines flight or something!
74 posted on 12/26/2017 8:45:32 AM PST by ExTxMarine (Diversity is tolerance; diverse points of views will not be tolerated!)
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To: Texas Fossil
United Airlines Accused of Evicting Woman from First Class Seat to Make Room for Black Democrat

Or, if warranted, United Airlines Accused of Evicting White Woman from First Class Seat to Make Room for Black Democrat

Two possibly more truthful versions of the headline. 'Cause everything is race.

75 posted on 12/26/2017 8:51:39 AM PST by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: WeWaWes

You didn’t realize that entitled blacks and professional widows were better than you even back then?


76 posted on 12/26/2017 8:52:49 AM PST by RJS1950 (The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
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To: Texas Fossil

Why the hell are we paying for them to ride in First Class?


77 posted on 12/26/2017 8:53:50 AM PST by kempster
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To: ExTxMarine
I purposely write Untied because they are - I saw it written as such on the side of a United Airlines service truck.
78 posted on 12/26/2017 9:00:14 AM PST by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~)
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To: trisham

I did!! I knew it was bad from the moment W. suggested to make all airports have the same stupid procedures, etc...

More importantly, I saw it BEFORE 9/11! I was at the SeaTac airport, trying to fly back to Dallas and I had a stress ball - a bead-filled squeeze ball (they were popular back in the late 90’s, and I was trying to give up some bad habits (and that worked...for a little while)). Anyway, I had flown with this thing in my pocket for more than twelve separate flights from various cities (Dallas, L.A., Tampa, Seattle, Chicago, etc...) and NEVER had a problem - ever!

I was rushing to catch an early flight back to Dallas (got off work early, I wanted to get home - paid extra to change flights)! I had already gotten through the check-point, grabbed my coat, pulled this out of the pocket and went to head to my gate when I got stopped by two rent-a-cop, wannabes. They wanted to know what that ball was. I explained it to them. They said they needed to scan it. I explained that they had already scanned it when it was in my coat pocket. They scanned it again. Then they wanted to know what was inside. I said beads or something.

Then they said I couldn’t take it with me, as it might be a bomb or something. I told them that they could keep it, so I can make my flight. They told me that I had to throw it away, in the trash can next to them, then I could go.

After having seen the lack of mental power of these two dweebs, I KNEW giving these type of people ANY kind of “authoriti” was going to be DISASTROUS!! Most of these single-digit IQ idiots truly believe they are saving the WORLD from annihilation!

Besides, my sister-in-law worked for the airport security at DFW, before it was TSA, and she told me the level of stupidity among their ranks. They had bag scanners back then and said that, AT-BEST, they caught less than 10% of hidden items in test bags! She quit because it was such a joke of a job.


79 posted on 12/26/2017 9:01:54 AM PST by ExTxMarine (Diversity is tolerance; diverse points of views will not be tolerated!)
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To: JimRed

To ComDem’s everything is always race.


80 posted on 12/26/2017 9:05:20 AM PST by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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