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.”

[Liz]

Quick, somebody give Sheila a copy of American History - The Revolutionary War. This woman is confused. She thinks she's a queen.

[TexasNative2000]

Where are those Federal Air Marshalls when you need them?

[bedolido]

that big butt of hers needs all the room it can get. Arrogant Bas$##d

[Sir Gawain]

I would've told her to sit down and shut up. She works for me, not the other way around.

[steve50]

Somebody needs to remind the author it's a Republic. Seems the author and the subject are worthy of ridicule.

[gridlock]

How is it that airlines are allowed to give these government employees free gifts of airline ticket upgrades and first-class seating? Shouldn't these gifts be reportable under some good-government anti-bribery law?

[GOPJ]

Says it all:

She thinks she's a queen.

[South40]

I wants my own row of seats!

[JennysCool]

Sheila Pingaroonie!

[Puppage]

Ah, yes. The same woman who needs a limo (at OUR expense) to haul her fat fat butt 2 blocks from her DC home to her office.

[governsleastgovernsbest]

Sheila must be ecstatic that Mars is at an historically close point to Earth - gives her a better chance to see the flag the astronauts planted there.

[mewzilla]

This is what happens when a government no longer fears its citizenry.

[I still care]

This is simply another illustration of the "Democratic Queen Bee" thing some of these women have.

I remember a freeper telling this story on how ticked off they were - their plane was delayed at least half an hour because they had to wait to pick up Hillary from her book signing.

[Nea Wood]

Later in the flight she even paid a friendly visit to the people she had refused to sit with.

Oh, how very big of her to deign to visit the "little people." She'd have gotten an earful from me, had I been one of those passengers. At the very least, I'd tell her just what she could do with her "business card."

[Mears]

Shame on Continental airlines. I'll remember that the next time I take a trip.

[Wright is right!]

"Ah, yes. The same woman who needs a limo (at OUR expense) to haul her fat fat butt 2 blocks from her DC home to her office."

No, that was another lunatic, Cynthia McKinney from burban Et-Lanta GA. She's finally gone now.

Michael

[Puppage]

No. You need to relook that...it was the afore mentioned Jackson Lee.

[al_c]

Later in the flight, after realizing she may have pissed off potential voters, 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."

[Theodore R.]

She is Queen in that Marxist-style congressional district there in Houston. People adore and worship her "holiness" Sheila.

[goodnesswins]

This is a REPUBLIC....if it was a (true) DEMOCRACY the rest of the PASSENGERS would have VOTED SHEILA OFF OF THIS FLIGHT!!!!