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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: Liz
Maybe it was his time of the month...
181 posted on 09/03/2003 6:02:47 PM PDT by cyborg (i'm half and half... me mum is a muggle and me dad is a witch)
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To: Liz
I thought Continental had banned her? Or was that a different airline?
182 posted on 09/03/2003 6:39:40 PM PDT by NovemberCharlie
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To: Flurry
Voter fraud most likely enables these people to get elected.
183 posted on 09/03/2003 7:01:17 PM PDT by Liz
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To: NovemberCharlie
Probably all the airlines would like to ban her, she's such a damn nuisance.
184 posted on 09/03/2003 7:31:12 PM PDT by Liz
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To: Liz
YUK! This woman is so sickening! Uppity affirmative action witch. The people in coach were probably thrilled to have her out of there!
185 posted on 09/03/2003 7:36:08 PM PDT by ladyinred (The left have blood on their hands.)
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To: Sir Gawain
"I would've told her to sit down and shut up. She works for me, not the other way around."

Amen! She need her ears boxed. Some people should never have much money or any power.
186 posted on 09/03/2003 7:37:37 PM PDT by avenir
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To: Liz
Wake up, Liz! Didn't you know Congress PEOPLE are royalty? Sheez! They are treated like royalty therefore they are royalty.

I think it's time I turned in my Continental frequent flyer club card. If all of us would stop flying Continental they'd have plenty of room for Acorn Head.

187 posted on 09/03/2003 7:41:36 PM PDT by Terry Mross
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To: 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."

Don't know about all that, but she surely does have a Texas-size azziponer.
188 posted on 09/03/2003 8:02:49 PM PDT by OldEagle (Haven't been wrong since 1947.)
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To: OldEagle
I don't want to say she has a big ass, but when she backs up it goes, "beep...beep....beep...."beep....
189 posted on 09/03/2003 8:26:29 PM PDT by Doctor Raoul
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To: Terry Mross
Wake up, Liz! Didn't you know Congress PEOPLE are royalty? Sheez!

Darn it all. I keep forgetting. I gotta write that down. LOL.

190 posted on 09/04/2003 2:34:37 AM PDT by Liz
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To: Liz
I see dead people, voting.
191 posted on 09/04/2003 4:10:21 AM PDT by Conspiracy Guy (Of course I like it here. I just may not like you.)
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To: Liz; All
I just recently deployed overseas with my squadron. For a variety of reasons, I was forced to go on commercial air.

After showing my military I.D. and orders, I was searched down to my shoes TWICE, and wanded both times. I was put in the very LAST seat in coach, and spent five hours with my knees in my chin in a seat which could not even recline. Oh, and no stewardess managed to pass me without bumping my arms, so no sleep was possible as a respite. All so I could leave my wife and infant son for six months+, and "relax and unwind" in loveley Keflavik, Iceland.

Somehow, I feel little sympathy for Ms. Lee.

192 posted on 09/04/2003 4:20:14 AM PDT by Long Cut (Even in Summertime, Iceland is COLD!)
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To: Liz
What no video? This would make great "reality" TV watching the "royal" among us making a "donkey" of themselves.
193 posted on 09/04/2003 4:31:13 AM PDT by Just mythoughts
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To: Nea Wood
My exact thoughts... dittos.

I'd been asking the commie bi+ch if she needed ketchup with those cards.
194 posted on 09/04/2003 4:40:42 AM PDT by TLI (...........ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA..........)
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To: Liz
SJLEE is a great argument for pre-voting literacy tests.
When she retires from Congress she should audition to be Whoppi Goldberg's stunt double.
195 posted on 09/04/2003 4:43:39 AM PDT by ConservativeStandUP (SJLEE Houston's not too silent shame...)
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
 

 

 

The the second image is an artist's depiction of a more natural position during Campaign Finance Reform Debates.

196 posted on 09/04/2003 4:55:24 AM PDT by TLI (...........ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA..........)
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To: Liz
She clearly thinks she's a queen.

But she'd better be careful,

Bwitch Shrillery will slap her down good.

Or some 'queens' from San Francisco will tell her to . . . well, anyway.
197 posted on 09/04/2003 5:06:09 AM PDT by Quix (DEFEAT her unroyal lowness, her hideous heinous Bwitch Shrillery Antoinette de Fosterizer de MarxNOW)
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To: Sir Gawain
Absolutely.

And I'd not have been too careful about splatter when I spoke.
198 posted on 09/04/2003 5:06:48 AM PDT by Quix (DEFEAT her unroyal lowness, her hideous heinous Bwitch Shrillery Antoinette de Fosterizer de MarxNOW)
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To: South40
What a disgrace to humanity.
199 posted on 09/04/2003 5:07:52 AM PDT by Quix (DEFEAT her unroyal lowness, her hideous heinous Bwitch Shrillery Antoinette de Fosterizer de MarxNOW)
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To: ConservativeStandUP; Quix; Long Cut; Just mythoughts; Flurry
I keep thinking....."the bigger they are....the harder they fall."
200 posted on 09/04/2003 5:11:42 AM PDT by Liz
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