Yet they overwhelmingly re-elect her.
District 18 voters - do you see a problem here?
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Posted on 08/31/2002 9:31:56 PM PDT by GOPcapitalist
Would love to know how Harkin came out on the same survey. He's a mighty nasty guy, and I have read that he is widely disliked by his Senatorial colleagues.
That's right, sheila-flag-on-Mars jackson - let them eat cake.
May she go the way of sinthia mckinney.
Or Barbara Lee, congresscritter from Berzerkeley, CA, the only no vote on the September vote to authorize retaliation against terrorists. (What is it with these black congresscritters named after the Lees of Virginia).
Sorry, my vote still goes to Robert Wexler...and come on, Maxine is worse than Sheila.
Yet they overwhelmingly re-elect her.
District 18 voters - do you see a problem here?
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Regards, Ivan
Somebody goofed.
No kidding. I can't believe I didn't catch that.
I don't know about that. All three are bad, but I still have to stick with Sheila. It's just her style of doing things
Sheila flew all over the nation just so she could stick her face in front of a camera and make Castro's case for him during Elian Gonzales. She has to be at the center of every issue and even the dems concede that she's constantly dumping frivolous amendments onto whatever the current legislation may be just because the amendment bears her name - she does it more that mad maxine, wexler, or any of the others...plus she's always dressed in bright pink when she's doing it.
I don't think Sheila has the same feelings for Castro that our friend from Georgia had for the Arabs. Having lived in Houston (back when Mickey Leland held the seat) I just don't get the sense that Sheila is as much of a traitor as she is being painted in this thread. I think she believed the kid belonged with his father, which admittedly, is how I felt, politics aside. I know I'm not upholding the party line here, but that's what I felt. I also lived in South Florida and know what the Cuban community can be like, and I don't like the idea of a relatively small group of people in the country controlling our foreign policy. Well, you'll probably be calling me a traitor, too. But that's how it goes I guess.
Next time Sheila is on TV, watch and listen very carefully. She doesn't just automatically dump on Bush and other republicans, calling them names and make wild accusations, like Maxine,Cynthia, Robert and (yuck) Nancy.
I respect her for that.
Plus she has the guts to wear bright colors when she's overweight.
I respect her for that, too. :)
The bottom line was that Sheila had practically no business in the matter but stuck herself in the middle of it at every opportunity. It's unusual that a Texas congresswoman would undertake so much effort to stick herself in the middle of a dispute taking place in South Florida as if she knew the issue better than the local reps there such as, say, Lincoln Diaz-Balart.
I also don't believe she cared one bit about the father's rights. For Sheila it was all another publicity stunt. As a constituent I've seen it all too often from her - she's madly in love with the camera and will claw her way to one at every chance. But if some problem in the district doesn't get her publicity she ignores it. I tend to think of her as Mickey Leland without tact, and that's not saying, IMHO, that he had much to begin with.
True, but I think it's something more to do with the fact that it makes her stand out in the crowd as the center of attention. When you're watching the state of the union or something you see a congress full of people in black, blue, and brown. Then there's Sheila in bright pink sticking out like a sore thumb in the middle of it all. I believe she does it because she knows it will make her recognizable when they pan out over the chamber. It's not anything on her part to make some sort of statement about something - it's all "look at me - I'm sheila."
And that's just the way she is. I've heard horror stories about her on airplanes where she's instructed the flight crew that she is to be "treated as a queen." Continental even suggested that she do her travel on another airline once after she got in a fight with the flight crew over a fish dinner or something. The lady is truly obsessed with herself.
I interviewed Leland once when he called a state republican leader a "racist bastard" and "you can quote me on that." So we did.
But I kind of admired him in a way. You obviously know Sheila better than I do, but I probably know the South Florida Cubans and how they operate better than you. I also know a fair amount about the Congressional Black Caucus from a, shall we say, non-traditional perspective. I know Sheila has to play it careful when it came to Bush since he was the governor and all, but I still believe she has a heart and a brain, (despite the way Rush handles her on his show) which is more than can be said for any of the aforementioned members of Congress. In fact, it is rare among congressional members to begin with. I could be wrong. But if I had to purge people from Congress, Sheila would not be first on my list, as already noted. Thanks for not flaming me.
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