Congresswoman and disabled rights advocate sued for 'humiliating' visually impaired aide

Mail Online ^ | July 12, 2011 | Daily Mail Reporter

[crusader71]

She’s always come across as an aggressive bully. Saw a video clip of her during the healthcare debacle at a town hall for constituents. One of the voters was asking her a question and Lee didn’t like it, so she took a cell phone call and ignored the questioner.

A large cow too, grazing quite well on federal salary and benefits. Jackson looks like she ate Lee and became Jackson-Lee.

[achilles2000]

That’s “Queen Sheila” to you, buddy. Her constituency is black neighborhoods in Houston. Talk radio and the rest of us find her entertaining in an odd sort of way. We can’t do anything about her, so we might as well laugh at her antics.

[Hoodat]

It wouldn’t surprise me one bit to learn that a Democrat-controlled Congress exempted itself from the Americans With Disabilities Act, just like they exempted themselves from the Civil Rights Act back in the 60s.

[Sporke]

I wonder....when someone gets hired by the most Honorable Mz. Lee, do they bother to ask about retirement benefits?

Has that woman EVER had an employee last longer then 3 years? :-/

[Marty62]

The Houston Chron had this yesterday. But isn’t it strange that none of the msm in U.S picked up on the story? It comes from a UK paper.

[Kaslin]

I saw that too. Then there was also this

Congressional bosses from Hell: Sheila Jackson Lee

[Pan_Yan]

Dear Texas,

We understand. We had Cynthia McKinney.

Regards,
Georgia

[Milton Miteybad]

Embarrassment or not, people in TX like Sheila Jackson Lee, well at least in 1/36 of Texas.

If ignorance, arrogance, stupidity and abject buffoonery were felonies, Sheila Jackson-Lee would be serving a life term without the possibility of parole.

[constitutiongirl]

There should be a basic minimum competency test in place that must be passed for a person to run for congress. This loon would have flunked for sure. My 4 year old is brighter.

[MV=PY]

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.

They are eating their own. Break out the popcorn!

[stylin19a]

she said, she said, plus here-say.
But Miss Floyd alleges that when she brought up her disability on one occasion, another staffer told her that the congresswoman had said: 'I don’t give a damn about her disability.'

[Jedidah]

Who says Lee ever “championed the rights of disabled people??”

I’ve been watching old Sheila for years, and the only cause she champions is herself.

A joke and a shame to inner-city Houston.

[Iron Munro]

Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee is a token - that's why she is in congress.

No, she's not a token representing the blacks.
She's a token representing the clueless idiots although she is also a racist.

Houston we have a problem here!

“The Congressional bonehead award goes to Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) who, on a visit to JPL, asked if Mars Pathfinder had taken an image of the flag planted there in 1969 by Neil Armstrong!

Quipped Rep. Vernon Ehlers (R-MI) to the Washington Times: “We just don’t teach enough science.” Worse, Jackson Lee, who represents Houston, is a member of the House Science Committee’s space subcommittee. Perhaps some committee reassignments are in order…”

Sheila Jackson-Lee is the Chairperson of the House Subcommittee on Transportation Security and Infrastructure Protection.

She also sits as a member on the following committees:

House Committee on Foreign Affairs

• Subcommittee on Africa and Global Health
  
• Subcommittee on The Middle East and South Asia
  

House Committee on Homeland Security

• Subcommittee on Border, Maritime, and Global Counter terrorism
  

House Committee on the Judiciary

• Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property
  
• Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security
  
• Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law
  

[PieterCasparzen]

Now I want popcorn... grrr...

[rcrngroup]

How is it that a racist, bigoted, dumb ass, rude, crass, revolting, downright bitchy Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (TX-D) goes on year after year, without someone, ANYONE, cold clocking her sorry ass into the next county. I would think it would be worth the assult charges.

She's dumber than sh_t and yet her staff puts up with her insults & rudeness, and allows her to berate them for not finishing assignments? I would throw the papers back in her face and scream back at her... JUST STFU you dumb ass beeeeotch!

[tal hajus]

I know this may sound weird but when I read the headline I instantly thought of two things, coloured and SJL. god. Maybe I need a life or I’ve been FReeping too much.

[jimt]

Sheila has the highest staff turnover of any sitting Congresscritter, I believe.

She’s also a racist commie.

The stories of Queen Sheila and her constant demands for special treatment, her rudeness, her ignorance and her just plain atrocious manners are legion.

I hope this staff member sticks it to her good.

[Gondring]

I think I know Rep. Lee’s race. Is the plaintiff white?

It seems that the plaintiff once got a Congressional Black Caucus Foundation Fellowship, if that answers your question.

[Gondring]

None of the pictures of her under Google images show her with glasses. She must not be TOO "visually impaired". Maybe she just didn't want Jackson Lee to call her Four Eyes.

Hmmm...put on your reading glasses and try the article again? Not all "visual impairments" are helped by glasses, I think.