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The Michael Berry Show

Former Sheila Jackson Lee Staffers Are Coming Forward With Tawdry Tales

The Michael Berry Show

KTRH

News, Society & Culture, Politics

4.82.3K Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2023

⏱️ 6 minutes

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0:00.0

The Michael Berry Show

0:02.0

Two former Sheila Jackson Lee staffers go on record to talk about the abuse they endured and witnessed from her

0:10.1

One staffer quit after just 40 days with the final straw being she-jack's treatment of an online representative.

0:17.0

Another former staffer says the experience was nightmarish as she verbally abused him in front of others.

0:25.4

Houston Chronicle says, quote, in spring 1998,

0:28.3

Rianen Burrus, a veteran congressional Burris, sorry, a veteran congressional staff are now in her 70s said she resigned after some 40 days

0:40.0

as Sheila Jackson Lee scheduler and. Burris attributes her brief tenure

0:45.1

to what she characterized as Jackson Lee's unpredictable outburst.

0:51.4

The breaking point, Burris said, came when Jackson Lee's harsh treatment of flight

0:55.5

attendance allegedly led an airline representative to offer alternative flight

1:00.6

options from a competing airline.

1:03.3

Hey, we'll just put you on another plane.

1:06.7

Shortly after the incident, Burris quit.

1:10.3

Burris' short stint with Jackson Lee is not uncommon in the Chronicles analysis of 229 of her former staffers.

1:17.0

92 stayed in the office for six months or less and 144 left within a year. Why do you think she was named

1:24.8

worst boss in all of Congress? 435 members of Congress and yet she keeps winning the worst.

1:35.0

And that's saying something.

1:37.0

To be the tallest, the shortest, the fattest, the thinnest, the smartest, the smartest,

1:41.0

the most accomplished, the most impressive military record, to do anything out of 435 people,

1:49.3

you've got to really stand out and Sheila stands out. Why does it matter Michael? Here's

1:56.2

everything you need to know. Everything for what she wants. The truth doesn't matter. Decency doesn't matter. Young black men and

2:08.9

women and it is almost all. Young black men and women don't matter.

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