IT'S A DEMOCRACY, STUPID, NOT A MONARCHY: Airline makes room for Sheila Jackson Lee

THE HILL ^ | 9/3/03

[Liz]

Members of Congress often use weekend plane trips back to their districts as a way to unwind after a hectic bout of lawmaking. Which could explain why Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) demanded a whole row of seats to herself on a recent Continental flight from Washington to Houston.

Jackson Lee usually gets first-class upgrades from the airline. But on this particular flight first class was full. After cabin attendants delivered the bad news and showed her to the coach section, Jackson Lee exploded, said one witness.

“When she saw that she had to sit with other people, she started shouting that she was in Congress and worked hard. She was really loud. Everybody in the plane could hear.”

Frequent flyers say that such outbursts are common whenever Jackson Lee is on board. The Continental crew seemed to take the whole situation in stride. Attendants scurried around to find her other accommodations, and once Jackson Lee got her own row of seats she quieted down.

Later in the flight she even paid a friendly visit to the people she had refused to sit with. According to a nearby passenger, Jackson Lee “handed out her business cards and invited them to stop by her office.”

[Liz]

Quick, somebody give Sheila a copy of American History - The Revolutionary War. This woman is confused. She thinks she's a queen.

[TexasNative2000]

Where are those Federal Air Marshalls when you need them?

[bedolido]

that big butt of hers needs all the room it can get. Arrogant Bas$##d

[Sir Gawain]

I would've told her to sit down and shut up. She works for me, not the other way around.

[steve50]

Somebody needs to remind the author it's a Republic. Seems the author and the subject are worthy of ridicule.

[gridlock]

How is it that airlines are allowed to give these government employees free gifts of airline ticket upgrades and first-class seating? Shouldn't these gifts be reportable under some good-government anti-bribery law?

[GOPJ]

Says it all:

She thinks she's a queen.

[South40]

I wants my own row of seats!

[JennysCool]

Sheila Pingaroonie!

[Puppage]

Ah, yes. The same woman who needs a limo (at OUR expense) to haul her fat fat butt 2 blocks from her DC home to her office.

[governsleastgovernsbest]

Sheila must be ecstatic that Mars is at an historically close point to Earth - gives her a better chance to see the flag the astronauts planted there.

[mewzilla]

This is what happens when a government no longer fears its citizenry.

[I still care]

This is simply another illustration of the "Democratic Queen Bee" thing some of these women have.

I remember a freeper telling this story on how ticked off they were - their plane was delayed at least half an hour because they had to wait to pick up Hillary from her book signing.

[Nea Wood]

Later in the flight she even paid a friendly visit to the people she had refused to sit with.

Oh, how very big of her to deign to visit the "little people." She'd have gotten an earful from me, had I been one of those passengers. At the very least, I'd tell her just what she could do with her "business card."

[Mears]

Shame on Continental airlines. I'll remember that the next time I take a trip.

[Wright is right!]

"Ah, yes. The same woman who needs a limo (at OUR expense) to haul her fat fat butt 2 blocks from her DC home to her office."

No, that was another lunatic, Cynthia McKinney from burban Et-Lanta GA. She's finally gone now.

Michael

[Puppage]

No. You need to relook that...it was the afore mentioned Jackson Lee.

[al_c]

Later in the flight, after realizing she may have pissed off potential voters, she even paid a friendly visit to the people she had refused to sit with. According to a nearby passenger, Jackson Lee "handed out her business cards and invited them to stop by her office."

[Theodore R.]

She is Queen in that Marxist-style congressional district there in Houston. People adore and worship her "holiness" Sheila.

[goodnesswins]

This is a REPUBLIC....if it was a (true) DEMOCRACY the rest of the PASSENGERS would have VOTED SHEILA OFF OF THIS FLIGHT!!!!

[Liz]

“When she saw that she had to sit with other people, she started shouting that she was in Congress and worked hard. She was really loud. Everybody in the plane could hear.” Frequent flyers say that such outbursts are common whenever Jackson Lee is on board.

My, my, my. Having a fit b/c she has to sit with other people?

This woman is clearly delusional ....she has the psychotic notion that a member of Congress is royalty.

[al_c]

How is it that airlines are allowed to give these government employees free gifts of airline ticket upgrades and first-class seating?

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.

[Ff--150]

She thinks she's a queen

Sadly, you are correct that she is royal, and people are beginning to understand that retched truth from what has happened with Judge Moore.

As the judges are honored, and therefore royality and above our mundane law--such as the Constitution--congressmen too are honored and until recently addressed as such: "The Honorable, Ms. Lee," for example.

[shortstop]

I can't wait to read about this incident in the New York Times.

[Liz]

LOL.....you won't most probably.

[Pontiac]

Any other passenger who had made such an out burst would have been warned to sit down and calm down.

Had they continued they would have been arrested and charged with interfering with a flight crew and removed from the plane in hand cuffs.

Queen Sheila should have received the same courtesies

[Liz]

LOL.......good one.

[.cnI redruM]

I thought we were keeping terrorists off of our airplanes.

[Liz]

ROTFLMCO........did they check her shoes?

[gridlock]

Frequent flyers often get upgrades (to first class)....

When you fly on the FedGov's dime, the frequent flier miles belong to the FedGov, and can't be used by the traveler for upgrades or any other consideration.

[South40]

This reminds me af a time a man refused to sit next to me probably bacause I am black. Delta removed him from the plane.

So why can a black congresswoman get away with refusing to sit next to other passengers?

[Liz]

....... (she should )....have been arrested and charged with interfering with a flight crew and removed from the plane in hand cuffs. ..........

That I would have liked to see......SJL in hamdcuffe. LOL.

[dogbrain]

"Shame on Continental airlines. I'll remember that the next time I take a trip."

You got THAT right.

Also, I can't believe NOT ONE PERSON spoke up!

[Pontiac]

When you fly on the FedGov's dime, the frequent flier miles belong to the FedGov

Why would she be flying on the government dime?

There is no indication that her trip back to her district is government business.

[Liz]

.....reminds me af a time a man refused to sit next to me probably bacause I am black. Delta removed him from the plane.....

Good for Delta. Who was this creep? Maybe he had his sheet packed?

[Liz]

Why would she be flying on the government dime? There is no indication that her trip back to her district is government business.

You must be kidding. There's a saying in DC....once they're in office, they never, ever spend their own money..........on anything. Their "expense vouchers" are a laugh riot.

[South40]

Good for Delta. Who was this creep? Maybe he had his sheet packed?

I believe his last name was Byrd.

"I vow never to fight with a Negro by my side. Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds."--Robert Byrd

[steplock]

you'll NEVER see this article printed in the houston area liepapers.

[dts32041]

Whats wrong with these people she is a know associtates of terrorists and they are letting her fly like she is Hiltery.

I would love to try that line.

But since I don't fly any more, someone else can try it.

[Liz]

Oh, my......talk about hate crimes.......gives me the shivers to read his despicable thoughts.

[Liz]

Well, you could always take out an ad.

[af_vet_1981]

“When she saw that she had to sit with other people, she started shouting that she was in Congress and worked hard. She was really loud. Everybody in the plane could hear.”

I really, really, wish the crew had told her to shut up and sit down, that she would be treated the same as ordinary citizens.

[mhking]

Jackson-Lee is officially the dumbest person in Congress.

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[Pontiac]

I can't wait to read about this incident in the New York Times.

I hope that it gets a lot of press back in Texas.

The good people of Texas should not tolerate such behavior in their public servants

This should definitely be a campaign issue used by her opponent in the next election.

[Porterville]

I thought it was a REPUBLIC, and that a DEMOCRACY can only lead to anarchy/communism

[Cooter]

I think they actually did those passengers a favor. Would you want to sit next to her on that flight?

[goldstategop]

Some politicians think they're Leona Helmsley. Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee seems to be one of them.

[Porterville]

Shouldn't they restrain out of controll passangers??? Don't they have tazers and restraints for such unrully folks??

[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?

[gridlock]

Why would she be flying on the government dime?

It would be an interesting question, whether or not she was flying on th FedGov's dime...