I can understand. I would go walleyed if I needed to listen to Sheila Jackson Lee all day, too.
Posted on 07/12/2011 6:56:09 PM PDT by Kaslin
A congresswoman who has championed the rights of disabled people is being sued by a visually impaired former aide who claims she made 'humiliating' comments about her eyesight.
At one point, the lawsuit claims, Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee told Mona Floyd: 'I don't care anything about your disability.'
The lawsuit, filed last month in District of Columbia federal court, is seeking unspecified pay and compensatory and punitive damages.
Mona Floyd, a lawyer who served as the congresswoman’s legislative director, claims Mrs Jackson Lee's treatment of her amounted to 'unlawful discrimination' and contributed to her resignation last fall.
Miss Floyd, the suit says, suffers from 'monocular vision,' causing eye fatigue and reducing reading speed - symptoms that worsen without adequate rest during the day.
She claims that after she came to work for Jackson Lee as legislative director and chief counsel in February 2010, the congresswoman did not follow through on a pledge from her office to 'accommodate her disability.'
She said the Texas Democrat piled reading assignments on her, often forcing her to work from 7am to 11pm without breaks to get all the work done.
In April 2010, the suit claims, Jackson Lee told her, 'It should not take 10 years to get them done,' in reference to a reading assignment.
The suit went on to question Jackson Lee's legislative efforts on behalf of disabled Americans.
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An inconsistent and shallow Liberal? I for one am shocked!
S-J Lee is such a total embarrassment.
I wonder if she still thinks we have a US flag planted on Mars......
Racism! That's what it is, racism! Oh wait - she really can't play that card here...
I think I know Rep. Lee’s race. Is the plaintiff white?
Dog sued by fleas for scratching.
She's the Jesse Jackson of Congress.
Lee is as cold as ice. It would appear every thing she does is for show, re-election and power.
She may need a double multioptipupiloptomy, a rare corneal inversion procedure.....
I can understand. I would go walleyed if I needed to listen to Sheila Jackson Lee all day, too.
More like an incontinent, shitfaced liberal ahole poster- woman for “I’m still stuck on stupid” month.
235 years, we've outlived the average Republic...we should be celebrating...but of course not.
That is one ugly, big fat welfare momma.
Embarrassment or not, people in TX like Sheila Jackson Lee, well at least in 1/36 of Texas.
Her constituents strongly disagree with what is obvious.
I hope the victim gets $50 million from the racist pig.
I don’t think the aide would have sued for a single careless remark, either. No mortal is on top of his game 100% of the time, and the proper thing for Lee to do when she saw her foot in her mouth like that would have been to apologize. It sounds like Lee was on her case day in and day out.
Sheila Jackson Lee. Thanks Kaslin.
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