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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

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To: al_c
Frequent flyers often get upgrades. On my flights to Chicago and back (to Dallas) I occasionally get moved up to business class and I don't fly even nearly as often as a senator.

Only if She's paying for the tickets.Government employees are not allowed to keep their frequent flyer miles. They have to be turned over. Ask anyone in the militay who has to fly on government buisiness.
81 posted on 09/03/2003 10:08:43 AM PDT by Kozak (" No mans life liberty or property is safe when the legislature is in session." Mark Twain)
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To: Porterville
No, the airline would be afraid of a false charge of "racism" and will therefore give the "Queen" preferential treatment. And she KNOWS this: she is not as dumb as she may sound in the House hearings.
82 posted on 09/03/2003 10:10:24 AM PDT by Theodore R.
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To: TheGrimReaper
i demand my FIRST CLASS SEAT, it is my BIRTHRIGHT! / queen sheila
83 posted on 09/03/2003 10:10:39 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: The Electrician
When is the last time that you demanded a whole row of seats for yourself only, and the airline granted that to you?

I suspect the FBI would be waiting at the airport if I had committed such a stunt.

84 posted on 09/03/2003 10:12:57 AM PDT by Skooz (Tagline removed by moderator)
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To: al_c
So if you are fat, you have to pay for the extra seat, but if you are Phat congresscritter it's on the house?
85 posted on 09/03/2003 10:14:11 AM PDT by Kozak (" No mans life liberty or property is safe when the legislature is in session." Mark Twain)
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To: All
What an arrogant, condescending, elitist b*tch.

But, I'm sure it's all "fer the chilrun" Contempt isn't even close to how I feel about people like this.
86 posted on 09/03/2003 10:15:05 AM PDT by labowski
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To: Liz; Noumenon; countrydummy; hellinahandcart; KLT; Jeff Head; Carry_Okie; Doctor Raoul; dead; ...
Our Minders are More Important than those of us not In Congress.

don't you know that yet?

87 posted on 09/03/2003 10:16:05 AM PDT by sauropod ("How do you know Sheila Jackson Lee's a queen?" "Because she doesn't sit with the little people")
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To: SpyGuy
If she didn't pay for the other two seats, then it should be logged as a campaign donation from Continental against her campaign account.

Isn't Continental based out of Houston? Maybe in her district? Tha explains it, she is Helmsley and thought it was her airline. How dare they keep the owner back with the common folk.

88 posted on 09/03/2003 10:17:22 AM PDT by NonValueAdded ("Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists." GWB 9/20/01)
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To: Liz
Typical elitist, huckster behavior.
89 posted on 09/03/2003 10:19:00 AM PDT by Constitutional Patriot (Socialism is the cancer of humanity.)
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To: xsmommy
I also have it on good authority that, despite her negative publicity last year, Queen Sheila CONTINUES to be CHAUFFERED to the Capitol Bldg EVERY DAY by a GOVT-PAID EMPLOYEE.
(BTW, it's only a 2-block walk....)
90 posted on 09/03/2003 10:20:01 AM PDT by TheGrimReaper (o)(o)
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To: mhking
Jackson-Lee is officially the dumbest person in Congress.

Is she the one who talked about someone making a "360 degree turn" on an issue?

Or is she the one who ranted about Salomon Barney Frank?

I get so confused!

91 posted on 09/03/2003 10:20:40 AM PDT by maryz
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To: Tacis
while the democrat from San Antonio (senior guy, Hispanic, named the conevention center after him,

Henry Gonzalez. Same guy who had his bodyguard hold down a Citizen while he punched him in a restaurant because the Citizen dared to make an unflattering comment to the government mandarin.
92 posted on 09/03/2003 10:21:23 AM PDT by Kozak (" No mans life liberty or property is safe when the legislature is in session." Mark Twain)
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To: Wright is right!; All
More on Queen Sheila (aka, the gentlelady from Mars), including her insistence on being chauffeured to work one block away
93 posted on 09/03/2003 10:21:56 AM PDT by ru4liberty (I don't know what tomorrow holds, but I know Who holds tomorrow. May His Name ever be praised!)
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To: Liz
Seems to me that kind of behavior has resulted in others being arrested for violating some federal law.
94 posted on 09/03/2003 10:22:01 AM PDT by ampat
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To: I still care
I thought that was a 90 minute delay.
95 posted on 09/03/2003 10:23:25 AM PDT by ampat
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To: Puppage
No. You need to relook that...it was the afore mentioned Jackson Lee.

Which one of them made the infamous comment about how their opinion on something had changed "360 degrees"? I can never remember, there are so many of them saying so many stupid things.

96 posted on 09/03/2003 10:24:30 AM PDT by Timesink
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To: Wright is right!
No. That was Jackson Lee.
97 posted on 09/03/2003 10:25:11 AM PDT by A Broken Glass Republican
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To: Kozak
Henry Gonzalez.

You've got to be kidding.

98 posted on 09/03/2003 10:27:12 AM PDT by Skooz (Tagline removed by moderator)
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To: Flyer
"Houston's own royalty" ping
99 posted on 09/03/2003 10:27:29 AM PDT by rustbucket
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To: maryz
The "Salomon Barney Frank" comment was made by Sheila's sister-in-crime, Maxine Waters (D-CA).

Queen Sheila is best known perhaps for her insistence that a NASA technician "pan the camera so we can see the US flag that was planted by the astronauts".... problem is that this was during the Mars Pathfinder mission.
This cretin is beyond ignorant.

100 posted on 09/03/2003 10:27:38 AM PDT by TheGrimReaper (o)(o)
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