IT'S A DEMOCRACY, STUPID, NOT A MONARCHY: Airline makes room for Sheila Jackson Lee

THE HILL ^ | 9/3/03

[Liz]

Members of Congress often use weekend plane trips back to their districts as a way to unwind after a hectic bout of lawmaking. Which could explain why Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) demanded a whole row of seats to herself on a recent Continental flight from Washington to Houston.

Jackson Lee usually gets first-class upgrades from the airline. But on this particular flight first class was full. After cabin attendants delivered the bad news and showed her to the coach section, Jackson Lee exploded, said one witness.

“When she saw that she had to sit with other people, she started shouting that she was in Congress and worked hard. She was really loud. Everybody in the plane could hear.”

Frequent flyers say that such outbursts are common whenever Jackson Lee is on board. The Continental crew seemed to take the whole situation in stride. Attendants scurried around to find her other accommodations, and once Jackson Lee got her own row of seats she quieted down.

Later in the flight she even paid a friendly visit to the people she had refused to sit with. According to a nearby passenger, Jackson Lee “handed out her business cards and invited them to stop by her office.”

[SkyPilot]

The saga of Queen Sheila was posted here on FR several months ago. I could not find it in the search files here, perhaps someone else knows the link.

The most notoable aspects of that piece was her unbelievable sense of entitlement, her monumental ego, warped (very warped) belief in righteous indigantion at percieved slights, rudeness, and lust for special "seafood meals" from the First Class section that better be served to her or there will be hell to pay.

[Allegra]

ALL HAIL QUEEN SHEILA!

(bowing down in great humility and supplication....)

[Flyer]

ALL HAIL QUEEN SHEILA!

Oh Hell, Queen Sheila.

[SuzanneC]

Sheila obviously forgot her name isn't Coretta Scott King.

[CindyDawg]

I wonder if she ever flys SW?

[COBOL2Java]

I thought it was a REPUBLIC, and that a DEMOCRACY can only lead to anarchy/communism

As they say, a democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what's for dinner.

[Liz]

Stupid isn't the half of it with this dork Lee.

[Conspiracy Guy]

The only persons dumber than her are the people voting for her.

[Liz]

Heheh....for sure.

[dpa5923]

Do you think any would make it to Waco?

[reformed_dem]

...you are correct that she is royal...

She's royal alright. A royal pain in the @$$.

[Conspiracy Guy]

Instead of local representatives we would be better off if every Senator, Representative, National Office holder had to win a national election. This Pig Lee couldn't get a dog catcher's job outside her district. If her DEMO district is drawn up like some in Alabama it is an address book not a map of people who promise to vote for whatever democrat gets the party's nomination. We recently dethroned a one term democrat buffoon Earl Hilliard that was hanging out in the middle east more than Alabama or DC. He was beaten by a Young Republican which shows that some of those promised Dem voters were paying attantion rather than towing the line.

[Conspiracy Guy]

Forget National Elections. I just remembered that WJC was elected twice.

[Ff--150]

She's royal alright. A royal pain in the @$$

Got that right!!! But as a member of the United States Congress she is ROYALITY--as difficult and nonsensical that may seem to any of us. She d@mn well knows that, too =-(

[Exit148]

Did she point to her tiara-like-braid, and say "See! You see this crown?"

The sad thing is that this woman is allowed to get away with this sort of behavior..

[CyberAnt]

I'm with you - I don't think the airlines are required to cowtow to an arrogant idiot like her.

[tet68]

Probably habits she picked up on Clinton Airlines.

[Doctor Raoul]

The bitch got booty, so she got snooty, because she knows with that ass in a row there's no rum for even Little Richard, nor his Tuti or Fruiti.

[daddyOwe]

All I can say about Sheila..Is shame on Texas for continuing to elect her.

[cyborg]

Has nothing to do with blackness... to people like Sheila Jackson Lee, all people are little people