Posted on 01/23/2019 12:39:14 PM PST by Red Badger
Sheila Jackson Lee To Resign Chair of Congressional Black Caucus Amid Claims She Retaliated Against Rape Victim
NEW: Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee intends to resign as chair of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, after being named in a lawsuit accusing her of retaliating against a staffer who planned to sue the CBCF over an alleged rape by a former CBCF employee https://t.co/2x73FHVJyv
Zoe Tillman (@ZoeTillman) January 23, 2019
Sheila Jackson Lee intends to resign as chair of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, after being named in a lawsuit accusing her of retaliating against a staffer who planned to sue the CBCF over an alleged rape by a former CBCF employee.
Bye, Felicia
BYE FELICIA 🙋🏻♀️ You are an EMBARRASSMENT to TEXANS! Jackson Lee also lost her post as top Dem on a Judiciary Committee! Sheila Jackson Lee ousted as chair of Congressional Black Caucus Foundation after lawsuit Washington Times https://t.co/U0seQFOiBg
Rose (@rosedixontx) January 23, 2019
Also leaving House Judiciary Committee
BREAKING: Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) is resigning from the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation and is temporarily stepping down from the House Judiciary subcommittee after an aide accused her of being fired for reporting sexual assault https://t.co/VWMhKM2Akw
Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) January 23, 2019
What do the white members of the Congressional Black Caucus have to say about this?
Accused-rapist, Damien Jones, of the Congressional Black-Caucus Foundation chaired by Sheila Jackson Lee.
Poor?
Her net worth is near a MILLION DOLLARS.
And that’s not including her campaign war chest, Congressional salary or pension..............
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And that was all..................
She would always say, Peach foe-fie!
Theyd be screaming and demanding this if the person was a man or a republican. Mass protest at their office.
Why does Congress have racial groups? It’s sickening.
Sad thing is that back in the 90’s she was quite attractive and a tiny bit decent. Power and politics has drained every last bit of beauty and charm from the hell hound she has become.
Sheila Jackson Lee is going to run NASA.
It’s a Democrat thing. All they see is ‘race’ or ‘gender’ .
They love to divide people by sarcastically saying they ‘bring people together’ into separate groups.
Ironic.
30 pounds and 30 years will do that to ya................
This is great big.
Thanks for sharing. I wonder how many other women will come forward.
She’ll just bide her time until the noise and public interest goes away......................
LOL! Looking for American flag on Mars!
The congressional Black Caucus Foundation......
One immediately what kind of a slush fund is that?
Of all the things being investigated I would think that bucket of corruption should be in the top 5 on the list.
The swamp must be frained anr the exposed critters must die. It is that simple, that important
The vicious cycle of racism and thievery in the CBC must be broken. Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical left and Islamic terrorism. The Congressional Black Caucus had a front seat to #MeToo with the revelation that $220,000 had been paid out to a staffer alleging sexual harassment by Rep. Alcee Hastings (D-FL), a former judge impeached for bribery whose girlfriend has been on his payroll to the tune of $2.4 million, and that Rep. Conyers (D-MI) had his own sexual harassment settlement. That scandal forced Rep. Conyers to resign and hand the seat to his son at the behest of his wife, Monica, who had been convicted of bribery.
Corruption, fraud and bribery are ongoing problems at the Congressional Black Caucus. After two decades of financial scandals, Rep. Corrine Brown (D-FL) was convicted of running a fake charity and sentenced in December. Rep. Chaka Fattah (D-PA) was sentenced last December for bribery, fraud and money laundering. His son, Chaka Fattah Jr, was already in prison on unrelated bank fraud charges. Around the same time the wife of Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-Il) had wrapped up her prison sentence after her husband had ended his prison term a year earlier on fraud charges.
Hardly a year goes by without a criminal case involving a member of the Congressional Black Caucus. Bribery and fraud, fake charities and money laundering to pay for the high life are familiar CBC themes . Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. bought a gold Rolex, Michael Jackson and Malcolm X memorabilia, and mink capes. Rep. Brown stole from poor children to pay for an NFL luxury box (wont you take a knee) and a Beyonce concert. Chaka Fattah Jr. bought Hermes ties and a Ritz-Carlton condo.
These arent aberrations. Theyre part of the culture of corruption at the Congressional Black Caucus. The year that Barack Obama, a former CBC member whose level of corruption outdid any of his former colleagues by climbing into the high stratospheric billions and using the Justice Department to run a massive slush fund, took office, every single House member investigated on ethics charges was CBC. A former study suggested that a third of CBC legislators had faced an ethics probe. Thats what a culture of political corruption looks like.
But the Congressional Black Caucus has consistently blamed all of its corruption troubles on racism. And CBC members would always play the race card. Rep. Corrine Brown had improbably claimed that Obamas DOJ had targeted her because I'm a black woman with a mouth. Its the same old racist excuse. And racism is the usual cover story for CBC corruption.
When Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) was accused of stealing a womans first class airplane seat, she claimed that it only happened because I was an African American woman, seemingly an easy target. The woman she casually accused of racism had no previous idea of who even stole her seat. And as a Democrat and a human rights activist was probably angry about her lost seat, not the politicians race. No one can be too surprised at a politician receiving preferential treatment at the expense of ordinary citizens. Especially a politician who had once allegedly howled, You dont understand. I am a queen, and I demand to be treated like a queen. Its the eagerness with which CBC members shut down any conversations about their corruption with casual accusations of racism that is the real problem.
The worst offender in the Conyers sexual harassment case wasnt actually the congressman in question. It was another Black Caucus member who came to his defense by accusing his victims of racism. Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-S.C.) allegedly claimed that Conyers accusers were all white women. And suggested that the accusations were somehow racially motivated. Other CBC members threatened Democrats who criticized Rep. Conyers and there were suggestions that the calls for his resignation were racist. Do you go and stalk white peoples houses or just come to the black neighborhoods and stalk our houses? Monica Conyers demanded.
The claim that Rep. Conyers accusers were all white women proved to be a lie. But it shouldnt have mattered what race the women accusing a politician of sexual harassment were. Nor should it have mattered what race the passenger whose seat Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee allegedly stole might have been. The reflexive accusations of racism by Congressional Black Caucus members hurled at their alleged victims and at any attempt to bring them to justice is at the root of the CBCs culture of racial corruption. The Caucus is a racially exclusive body. And it uses race and racism as weapons to protect its privileges of power. It doesnt admit white politicians who represent African-American districts.
"It is critical that its membership remain exclusively African American, Rep. William Lacy Clay Sr. (D-MO) had written. Referring to a white Democrats membership bid from an African-American district, he declared that, he does not, and cannot, meet the membership criteria unless he can change his skin color. Its the same familiar mantra of slavery and segregation but with a politically correct twist. Rep. Clay has paid out nearly a million dollars in campaign funds to his sisters law firm.
"We supported the tradition that only African-Americans have been full members of the CBC," insisted Rep. Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick (D-MI), whose son and husband would be convicted on charges that included fraud and racketeering. Urban political machines have a long history of exploiting ethnic and racial solidarity to maintain their grip on power. The Congressional Black Caucus did not invent an original form of corruption. Tammany Hall went through various ethnic incarnations as one immigrant group made way for another.
The Congressional Black Caucus is not uniquely corrupt because it is black. But it uses racial solidarity and animosity to protect its insidious corruption. The CBC uses the idea of racial persecution to convince the African-American areas it preys on to turn a blind eye to its corruption. And it depicts its critics and victims, whether they are the women groped by Rep. Conyers or the poor children ripped off by Rep. Brown, as pawns or perpetrators of a racist conspiracy against black people.
The CBCs merger of xenophobia and corruption is nothing new. But its a uniquely toxic tactic to utilize during a time of racial tensions. The Caucus styles itself as the conscience of the congress, but it has no conscience. Its become a gang of thieves united by greed, racial solidarity and racial animosity. The Congressional Black Caucus is uniquely destructive to black people and to the entire country. Its corrupt civil rights icons have long since become mirrors of the very thing they once fought against. And their accusations of racism are reflections of their own racism and their own racial privileges.
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee and Rep. Clyburns accusations show how the perniciously corrupt culture of the CBCs racial solidarity has turned race and racism into unlimited justifications for their own abuses. The Caucus racism and corruption feed into each other in a vicious cycle that spurs its members to greater ethics violations and noisier accusations of racism. The corruption charges then become proof of racism.
The more CBC members are arrested and jailed, the more the Caucus doubles down on the conviction that the only reason they were jailed is racism. And then it exploits that sense of racial grievance to justify even more corruption. This vicious cycle of racism and thievery in the CBC must be broken.Congress has a racism problem. Its name is the Congressional Black Caucus.
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Obama didnt just wake up one morning and decide he was going to run for president. He needed backing, organization, support...................and a lot of money.
The Congressional Black Caucus suppressed this image of the then-Ill state Sen with Nation of Islam head Farrakhan to dupe Americans into voting Obama as president.
There is so much voter fraud in Houston, SJL will be dead and still win two more terms.
The White congressional caucus should olive branch her and appoint her a special liaison........oh wait....there is no White congressional caucus. Never mind.
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