Posted on 12/28/2017 3:47:12 PM PST by blam
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.
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The most frightening thing is that this repugnant toad is married!
Now I am trying to figure out who is the least envied man in America, Chelsea Hubbell’s husband or Sheila Jerkson Lee’s?
Sheila Jackson just caused a Democrat woman to change her political party to Republican. Hate, it’s what the Democrat leaders project and communicate to their followers, but the followers are rejecting it, finally
I really can’t feel any sympathy for someone who suffers indignities on United Airlines. It is, after all, the most unfriendly airline company in the sky. The staff really does consider the passengers as the unwanted burden they must bear to have the privilege of wearing snazzy uniforms and getting to go to exotic places.
Nope.....She-boon
Don’t discount goats, donkeys, and muslims suffering sexual emergencies and requiring goat faced things to soothe themselves with.
United Airlines is scarred shitless of Sheila Jackson Lee - they won’t say anything against her regardless of the Teacher’s story.
Here is who she follows on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/JeanMarieSimon1/following
Note: She only follows 154 people. One of them is Bernie Sanders. Another is “The Onion”. Another is “The NewYorker”. And more than 10 Harvard Twitter accounts and at several Rice University Twitter accounts.
She is an academic.
Oddly, she has some semi conservatives in the list, for example John Podhoretz.
She appears to be a genuine human rights advocate. That is not necessarily a bad thing.
Thank you sir. I’m certainly not a leftist, but I have a number of Leftist friends on Twitter. They know what I am and I know what they promote.
Some of them are also critical of the Looney Left.
I have reservations about most “academics” but the reasonable ones can surprise you what they admit to.
I am looking at flying and I need to take luggage. They only accept carry on as part of their ticket. Bunch of cheapos.
Cat fight between two liberal women. Make the popcorn, I say.
I am looking at flying and I need to take luggage. They only accept carry on as part of their ticket. Bunch of cheapos.
I’d love to read that Lee was caught in a Fed bribery sting.
Make it happen DJT.
The teacher is much smarter than the slug called a congresswoman. Sheila Jackson Lee would loose any reasonable discussion, of course she will not expose her ignorance there.
Duh bro, coffee be black!
Tell me about it.
I bought a bag that fit under the seat in front of me SPECIFICALLY because I was told it would count as a personal item.
The United Airlines ticket agent took it away from me and forced me to check it for an additional $25.
They are now dead last on my list.
A race baiting whore and ugly as a mud fence.
The 14th Amendment illegally unnaturalized the country. Congress only citizenship power was keeping USA the same natural kind. Sheila Lee and the teacher are not the same natural kind, this is UnNaturalization.
SJL is the same woman who announced that homicide was the leading cause of murder. (True)
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