From the Houston Chronicle’s endorsement of Shiela Jackson Lee;
When someone in Jackson Lee’s district needs help with the federal government, they know who to call.
“I’m not over the hill,” Jackson Lee told us. “I’m on the Hill.”
We believe she should stay there. Source
Below is what the Houston Chronicle editorial staff describes happened while interviewing Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee and Amanda Edwards:
Cesar Espinosa bought his plane ticket in the morning, not knowing if he’d be able to make the 7 p.m. flight from Houston to Mexico City. His grandmother had passed away, and he wanted to take his mother and other family members home to the funeral. But first, Espinosa needed special emergency permission to leave the country, because he’s here as a “Dreamer,” an immigrant awarded Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals status. Getting that permission required physically showing up to a federal office and, hopefully, securing the support of his U.S. congressional representative, Sheila Jackson Lee.
He got more than that.
Jackson Lee, 74, wasn’t in her office. She happened to be sitting in a conference room with this editorial board and one of her primary challengers, former Houston City Councilmember Amanda Edwards. All through the endorsement interview, she kept one eye on her buzzing phone. As soon as the interview ended, she set up office on a couch in the Chronicle’s lobby and began working that phone, calling everyone she could on Espinosa’s behalf.
Jackson Lee, Espinosa told us, “has a track record of really stepping in for families.”
That record rarely shows up in the Congressional record, where the congresswoman is consistently ranked one of the most effective lawmakers. But what really makes her effective is her seniority, her institutional know-how, and her ability to get the right person on the phone when her constituents need it — whether it’s opening an emergency warming shelter in northeast Houston during a hard freeze or making sure a grieving grandson can make his evening flight. Source
That describes the Sheila Jackson-Lee that I know. She has always been there. The editorial staff for the Houston Chronicle just refused to see her for who she is. Not the person that the MAGA cultists like to hate.
Ghostbusters…
If there’s somethin’ strange in the neighborhood
Who ya gonna call (Sheila)
There’s somethin’ weird and it don’t look good
Who ya gonna call (Sheila)
I ain’t afraid a no ghost
I ain’t afraid a no ghost
Who ya gonna call (Sheila
Who ya gonna call (Sheila)