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After 15 terms in the House, Sheila Jackson Lee is barely hanging on in her primary
TheHill ^ | 02/27/2024

Posted on 02/27/2024 6:08:33 AM PST by devane617

Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) is an institution in Houston — so much so that although the Houston area may have three female members of Congress, only Jackson Lee is commonly referred to as “the Congresswoman.”

Since she first defeated incumbent Rep. Craig Washington in the 1994 Democratic primary, Jackson Lee has been easily re-elected 14 times. However, on March 5, 2024 Jackson Lee faces her toughest re-election challenge ever from former City of Houston councilmember Amanda Edwards — a challenge that could end the storied congressional career of one of the 21 longest-serving current members of the U.S. House of Representatives.

Jackson Lee’s congressional career began with her 26 percentage point (63 percent to 37 percent) victory over three-term Congressman Craig Washington in the 1994 Democratic primary in Texas’s 18th Congressional District. The district is ultra-safe Democratic. Between 1996 and 2020, the Democratic presidential candidate has won between 71 percent and 77 percent of the vote. The winner of the Democratic primary in this district is thus always a lock to win in November.

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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Texas
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1 posted on 02/27/2024 6:08:33 AM PST by devane617
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Shiela Jackson Lee is a disgrace to the human race.

Her level of incompetence, race-baiting, ignorance, and cruelty to her staff, are legendary.

2 posted on 02/27/2024 6:10:52 AM PST by marktwain (The Republic is at risk. Resistance to the Democratic Party is Resistance to Tyranny. )
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To: devane617

She’s all hair and scarf.

She’s a dim bulb but she’s a loudmouth black woman so gets more attention than she should.


3 posted on 02/27/2024 6:11:24 AM PST by cotton1706
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To: marktwain

And it’s even money her replacement will be ten times worse.


4 posted on 02/27/2024 6:12:00 AM PST by Rastus
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To: devane617

The machine is working hard to manufacture the votes.


5 posted on 02/27/2024 6:12:28 AM PST by IllumiNaughtyByNature (The kernel of our firm's job is to go with lots. - tnlibertarian job offer letter)
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To: devane617

SJL is the poster girl for politicians who think public service means the public is supposed to serve them.


6 posted on 02/27/2024 6:12:48 AM PST by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: devane617

She’s like one of those new lunar landers that landed upside down or on their side. Neil Armstrong’s flag on Mars must be totally embarrassed.


7 posted on 02/27/2024 6:12:59 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (John Oliver is a racist liberal biatch.)
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To: marktwain

IOW she’s a shoe in for another term? Meanwhile in NV, I like Sam Brown but the Clark/Washoe county libgressives will likely put Rosen in again. The rest of the state? Meh!


8 posted on 02/27/2024 6:13:46 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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To: devane617

She is dumber than a bucket of rocks, and so are her Gerrymandered constituents.


9 posted on 02/27/2024 6:14:03 AM PST by fwdude (.When unarmed Americans are locked up for protesting a stolen election, you know it was stolen.)
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To: IllumiNaughtyByNature

Houston will have another voting machine storage/warehouse fire, at any time.

I think everyone in Houston is sick of the grifting SJL, by now, though.


10 posted on 02/27/2024 6:14:07 AM PST by Jane Long (What we were told was a conspiracy theory in ‘20 is now fact. Land of the sheep, home of the knaves)
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Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) is an institution in Houston

That's a huge problem.

NOBODY should be an elected politician for so long as to become an "institution" ...

11 posted on 02/27/2024 6:15:18 AM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

[Neil Armstrong’s flag on Mars must be totally embarrassed.]

Hey, the Mars Pathfinder is so good it can find a flag on the Moon!! C’mon man!!

Mean distance between Mars and Earth’s Moon is about 249 million miles

For those in Rio Linda, mean distance is average distance

Sheila Jackson Lee only missed by 249 million miles. If you apply Common Core Math it was only inches


12 posted on 02/27/2024 6:26:40 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: devane617

15 terms of Zero = Zero


13 posted on 02/27/2024 6:30:05 AM PST by butlerweave
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To: SaveFerris

LOL! And she still refuses to Cancel Culture Club her “Confederate” last name.


14 posted on 02/27/2024 6:33:57 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (John Oliver is a racist liberal biatch.)
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Sheila Jackson Lee has a carefully gerrymandered overwhelmingly democrat district so no Republican has a chance of beating her, but I would love to see her taken out in the democrat primary.

The is literally the stupidest congresscritter there is, and that is saying a lot.


15 posted on 02/27/2024 6:40:41 AM PST by Bubba_Leroy ( Dementia Joe is Not My President)
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To: Rastus

but does her replacement know the difference between the Moon and Mars ?


16 posted on 02/27/2024 6:46:35 AM PST by butlerweave
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To: Rastus

“And it’s even money her replacement will be ten times worse.”

The replacement will be every bit as liberal as Jackson Lee - but hopefully not as dense and obnoxious.


17 posted on 02/27/2024 6:48:23 AM PST by MplsSteve
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To: FlingWingFlyer

It’s so sad to see Houston go for a person like Sheila Jackson Lee - a Maxine Waters level of brilliance and logic

But.....Democrat cities....


18 posted on 02/27/2024 6:48:48 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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You would think that after 30 years, the voters would improve their IQs instead of trying to make decisions based on race.


19 posted on 02/27/2024 6:59:40 AM PST by DownInFlames (p)
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To: Bubba_Leroy

Dumber than Hank “Capsize” Johnson?


20 posted on 02/27/2024 7:18:21 AM PST by GMThrust
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