To paraphrase an old saying, there is none so blind as Sheila Jackson Lee.
The Texas Democrat, who attempts to soften her public image by advocating for the visually impaired, has a completely different attitude when it comes to her own staff.
The Washington Times reports on Jackson Lee, which rhymes, coincidentally, with hypocrisy:
…a former top aide to the Texas Democrat, said the lawmaker’s public support for the disabled was nowhere to be found in her own congressional office when it came to the aide’s vision impairment. Mona Floyd, who served as the congresswoman’s legislative director, has monocular vision. She said she was told by Mrs. Jackson Lee in a private conversation within weeks of the hearing, “I don’t care anything about your disability.”
Our liberal friends may choose to interpret “I don’t care anything about your disability” as meaning “I choose not to judge people by their physical disabilities.” But they’d be wrong.
Another time, when Ms. Floyd, a lawyer, brought up her disability, she said another staffer told her the congresswoman had said, “I don’t give a damn about her disability.”
Harsh, Ms. Jackson Lee, harsh.
The accusations were outlined in a sharply-worded lawsuit filed recently in federal court in Washington, which seeks unspecified pay and compensatory and punitive damages. According to the complaint, Ms. Floyd, who did not return phone messages this week for comment, received reasonable accommodations for her vision disability when she went to work for the congresswoman in August 2007. But Ms. Floyd said in the court papers, the congresswoman became dismissive when she returned in February 2010 to become Mrs. Jackson Lee’s legislative director.
Short of starvation, we cannot think of a condition that would induce us to take a job with Sheila Jackson Lee.
“The representative regularly made these types of derogatory comments about the speed of Ms. Floyd’s work, which the representative knew was a result of her vision impairment,” the lawsuit said.
Despite her visual impairment, we trust that Ms. Floyd now sees Sheila Jackson Lee for what she really is.
Source: Washington Times
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Okay call me a racist, but the last thing I saw this ugly was in a zoo.
In the Party of Weiners, even the women are dicks.
LMAO!
That is a good one.
Bravo, sir, bravo!
OMG, that's a classic!!
To George Carlin -- " Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that ".
If Lee represents someone intelligent from her district , who elected her , the mentally or morally impaired ? If she is this stupid , in all of her abundant quotes , how stupid are the rest ? They must have some REALLY bad teachers there. One could go on and on here.
Lee reminds me very much of Oblvious . They both remind me of Peggy West. For a real treat google her. They all remind me of Congressman Johnson-- Guam Boy. Again google ( Johnson/Guam ) and laugh your ass off . It goes all the way to the top , with hoards of fellow ORCS waiting in the wings to out " tard " one another.
Was he the leftard that thought Guam would tip over from the extra Marines?
Oh wait, it turns out he was only speaking rhetorically, isn't that how the Ministry of Truth explained it?
I guess his hands were speaking rhetorically too, as they demonstrated the act of turning over. It's absolutely hilarious. And the Admiral, who was quite obviously stunned by the stupidity, did quite a job of not bursting out in laughter.
Sometimes you can just look at a person and tell they are evil.
Ugly bitch needs to be retired. Hope she takes that lunatic that thinks Guam is going to tip over with her.
It scares me the mentality of the people that keep voting for these cretins.
Congresswoman Sheila Jackson-Lee appears to have an ongoing problem with the people who work for her. Per the Huffington Post, she has had eleven chiefs of staff in the past eleven years (while the the average work life for chiefs of staff in the rest of Congress is 6.7 years). It's reported Sheila can be overbearing and verbally abusive toward those who work for her. So is she a bad boss or just unlucky with the people she hires? Apparently the former.
Yep, her perspective kind of reminds me of this:
http://babbleon5.wordpress.com/2010/12/10/tangled/#more-5616
The writer did a great job of capturing the twisted mindset of a megalomaniac -- which I prefer to call 'Olivia-itis' for lack of a better term.
I think she got the huckster gene from her daddy! What a load of whores whooey!
I'll sum Ms. Lee up in 1 word....COW!!!!!!!
Sheila Jackson Lee has the IQ of a refrigerator bulb.
Incandescent or CFL ?
Burned out.
I would think she would be more understanding of disabilities, what with the spare tire coming out of her head and all.
It took me a moment to figure out why you said that... LOL
I suppose she paid plenty for that hairdo, but I do wonder if the name for it is the "Michelin Bun".