Congressional bosses from Hell: Sheila Jackson Lee « » Print The Daily Caller – Breaking News, Opinion, Research, and EntertainmentBy Jonathan Strong - The Daily Caller 03/02/2011
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The Houston Democrat addressed one of her employees as “you stupid mf.” And not just once, but
“constantly,” recalls the staffer, “like, all the time.”
Another Jackson Lee aide recounts the time her parents came to Washington to visit: “They were really
excited to come to the congressional office. They’re small town people, so for them it was a huge deal. They
were actually sitting in the main lobby waiting area….[Jackson Lee] came out screaming at me over a
scheduling change. Called me a ’stupid idiot. Don’t be a moron, you foolish girl’ and actually did this infront of my parents, of all things.”
Nathan Williams, who quit his job when Jackson Lee threw a cell phone at him, told the Houston Chronicle
in 2002, “I don’t think I ever got home before 11 o’clock at night.”
The ‘Queen’ doesn’t wait…for anything
Even though she delays others for hours, Jackson Lee won’t wait a second for her demands to be met. “She
expected you to run – all the time,” says a former staffer. “There was no walking. Nobody could walk, you
always had to run – everywhere. She viewed walking as being lazy, so everyone always had to run.”
Another former aide added that the congresswoman would clock her on how long it took her to run an
updated schedule print-out from Jackson Lee’s office in the Rayburn building to the House floor. “She
would actually physically time you in terms of from office to getting to the [House] floor and finding her,
hunting her down,” the staffer said. Then Jackson Lee would demand, “what took you so long?”
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Her former drivers say the congresswoman demanded they run red lights and drive on highway shoulders
around traffic. This caused at least one accident. As Jackson Lee was yelling at a staffer to drive faster she
turned too sharply, smashing the side of her car into a wall.
Jackson Lee on race
Jackson Lee has always been quick to assign racism as a motive of her political opponents and others. In
1997, for example, The Hill reported that the newly-elected congresswoman asked NASA officials whether
the Mars Pathfinder photographed the American flag astronaut Neil Armstrong had planted on the surface of
Mars. When it was pointed out that the flag in question was on the moon, not Mars, Jackson Lee cited
bigotry. “You thought you could have fun with a black then chief of staff wrote in a letter to the editor.
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