This year the super bowl was held in Sheila Jackson Lee’s (D-TX) hometown of Houston, TX and apparently the congresswoman made a point to be there to enjoy the festivities. Jackson Lee reported campaign expenses of $4,900 for “Super Bowl LI tickets” and another $4,901 campaign expense for dinner at a local Houston Italian restaurant.
The congresswoman even posted pictures to social media of being “OnlocationatSB51.”
I don’t begrudge braidylocks her enjoyment of the Super Bowl, but I would think that it’s an ethics violation to use campaign funds to do so.
And they will still vote for her. She’s been caught doing this type of stuff so many times but hey, she’s black and she’s dem, so she gets to keep her job. Isn’t she the one saying we walked on Mars? lol
Well, if the idiots in her district want to donate, I would rather she waste her campaign funds on that than smearing her opponents.
Ethics? That’s too much to expect.
Her hometown is not Houston. She is from New York and was set up by the Dems to be elected by the idiots in the 5th ward of Houston. That’s the only place in Houston where there are enough dindu-nuffins to elect such an idiot.
Sheila Jackson Lee eating at an Italian restaurant? Isn’t that cultural approbation?
Time for a basic reading, writing, and arithmetic quiz before being able to vote. This idiot would lose 95% of her voters. Might not be a bad idea to test her too.
Where ethics are concerned. The D attached to their name stands for devoid.
WE ain’t surprised,THEY could care less, with zero consequences…So why bring it up?
http://ethics.house.gov/campaign-activity/proper-use-campaign-funds-and-resources
Among the particular uses of campaign funds that are specified in the FEC regulations as constituting an impermissible personal use are payments for the following:
•Admission to a sporting event, concert, theater or other form of entertainment, unless part of a specific campaign activity;
Don’t anticipate the FEC or the so called Congressional Ethics committee to hand down any “penalty” beyond a slap on the wrist.
Congress and Ethics in the same sentence? Funny.
Proud black woman ain’t gotta play by Whitey’s rules! Slabery, reparashuns an sheeit.
She invited all her campaign workers, should be ok to use campaign funds on campaign workers! Logic 101 it ain’t.
Now she’ll have to buy more tickets to buy off her fellow caucus members, so they can poo-poo her transgressions. I say eat that poo-poo.
“In 1997, while on a trip to the Mars Pathfinder operations center in California, Jackson Lee confused the planet Mars with Earth’s own moon, asking whether the Pathfinder had succeeded in taking a picture of the flag planted on Mars by Neil Armstrong in 1969.”
She also presented a Confederate flag before congress with 17 stars, rather than the proper 13, arguing for it to be banned. No one in Congress noticed.
Koonta should be in jail. Or better yet hanging from a tree.
Just like her dindu nuffin colleague, featured here in a thread last week, HER First Amendment rights are greater than those not so blessed by other dindu nuffins who bother to vote. And, just as long as whitey keeps on getting screwed, those votes keep coming in.
Nigga’s have special dispensation in off set of white privilege to do this.
Move along, nothing to see here.
She actually does represent her district.
The next one elected from there will be no different.
Ethics? Ain’t nobody got time for dat!
She is a black female democrat, so she can commit first-degree murder and walk.
One of the few times she didn’t steal from the taxpayers?
izlamo delenda est …
I can’t believe anybody gave that wench $10,000 in the first place!
Shiela, you can get some great shit at the Dollar store… an accountant isn’t one of them. So Glad He Moved that Dollar from one side of the ledger to the other. Imagine if He’d put 50 cents in each…….. Embarrasing !
Ohhh one cent ? well Half a Cent that could be even more embarrasing.