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IT'S A DEMOCRACY, STUPID, NOT A MONARCHY: Airline makes room for Sheila Jackson Lee
THE HILL ^ | 9/3/03

Posted on 09/03/2003 8:40:21 AM PDT by 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.”


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Extended News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: airline; airrage; congresscritter; d; democrat; demonrat; govtlargeass; govtlargess; houston; mediabias; queensheila; sheilajacksonlee; terrisn; texas; waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
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To: StolarStorm
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.

161 posted on 09/03/2003 12:58:01 PM PDT by SkyPilot
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To: JennysCool; humblegunner; RikaStrom; Xenalyte; Flyer
ALL HAIL QUEEN SHEILA!

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

162 posted on 09/03/2003 1:22:45 PM PDT by Allegra (Terrisn!)
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To: Allegra
ALL HAIL QUEEN SHEILA!

Oh Hell, Queen Sheila.

163 posted on 09/03/2003 1:27:08 PM PDT by Flyer (---[~~~]---)
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To: mhking
Sheila obviously forgot her name isn't Coretta Scott King.
164 posted on 09/03/2003 1:47:25 PM PDT by SuzanneC
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To: Flyer
I wonder if she ever flys SW?
165 posted on 09/03/2003 1:57:51 PM PDT by CindyDawg
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To: Porterville
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.

166 posted on 09/03/2003 1:58:58 PM PDT by COBOL2Java
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To: Flurry
Stupid isn't the half of it with this dork Lee.
167 posted on 09/03/2003 2:17:26 PM PDT by Liz
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To: Liz
The only persons dumber than her are the people voting for her.
168 posted on 09/03/2003 2:28:22 PM PDT by Conspiracy Guy (Of course I like it here. I just may not like you.)
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To: Flurry
Heheh....for sure.
169 posted on 09/03/2003 2:34:45 PM PDT by Liz
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To: Liz
Do you think any would make it to Waco?
170 posted on 09/03/2003 2:50:01 PM PDT by dpa5923 (Small minds talk about people, normal minds talk about events, great minds talk about ideas.)
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To: Ff--150
...you are correct that she is royal...

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

171 posted on 09/03/2003 2:50:02 PM PDT by reformed_dem (You can fool all the people some of the time, some people all the time, but you can't fool mom.)
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To: Liz
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.
172 posted on 09/03/2003 2:50:31 PM PDT by Conspiracy Guy (Of course I like it here. I just may not like you.)
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To: Liz
Forget National Elections. I just remembered that WJC was elected twice.
173 posted on 09/03/2003 3:01:08 PM PDT by Conspiracy Guy (Of course I like it here. I just may not like you.)
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To: reformed_dem
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 =-(

174 posted on 09/03/2003 3:41:11 PM PDT by Ff--150 (we have been fed with milk, not meat)
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To: Liz
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..

175 posted on 09/03/2003 4:03:03 PM PDT by Exit148
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To: Sir Gawain
I'm with you - I don't think the airlines are required to cowtow to an arrogant idiot like her.
176 posted on 09/03/2003 4:45:50 PM PDT by CyberAnt ( America - "The Greatest Nation on the Face of the Earth")
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To: Liz
Probably habits she picked up on Clinton Airlines.
177 posted on 09/03/2003 4:48:58 PM PDT by tet68
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To: Liz
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.
178 posted on 09/03/2003 5:45:41 PM PDT by Doctor Raoul
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To: whoever
All I can say about Sheila..Is shame on Texas for continuing to elect her.
179 posted on 09/03/2003 5:57:38 PM PDT by daddyOwe
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To: South40
Has nothing to do with blackness... to people like Sheila Jackson Lee, all people are little people
180 posted on 09/03/2003 6:00:25 PM PDT by cyborg (i'm half and half... me mum is a muggle and me dad is a witch)
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