SHEILA JACKSON LEE GOES APE 🦍 ON HAPLESS STAFFERS AND CHIMPS OUT EPICALLY

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Juanita Broaddrick - JUST IN: Leaked audio of Sheila Jackson Lee in the “Raw”. What a mouth on this woman. 🤡

https://www.houstonchronicle.c....om/politics/houston/

Republican social media sites on Saturday circulated an unverified recording of what they say is U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee unleashing a string of profanities at a staffer, calling him and another employee "two goddamn big-ass children" and "idiots."

Jackson Lee, a front-runner in Houston's open mayoral race, has long had a reputation as a demanding, sharp-talking boss. But any audio- or video-recorded evidence of her berating anyone has never surfaced, so the unverified recording immediately took off on social media, being re-shared thousands of times on X, formerly known as Twitter.

Before the undated recording hit social media, it was emailed anonymously to the Chronicle and other media on Friday morning, shortly before the beginning of early voting this upcoming Monday. The individual who shared it did not respond to repeated inquiries, sending the message under an apparent alias.

The Chronicle since Friday had been asking Jackson Lee's campaign staff if the voice on the recording is Jackson Lee's. On Saturday night, the campaign issued a statement that didn't answer that question, but instead tied the recording's release to Jackson Lee's leading mayoral contest rival, state Sen. John Whitmire.

“This is a low handed political tactic meant to discredit a thriving mayoral campaign and distract voters ahead of the early voting period,” Jackson Lee’s campaign said in its statement to the Chronicle. “It’s unsurprising that these attacks have originated from extremely conservative blogs and political operatives backing John Whitmire.”

The campaign for Whitmire, the other front-runner in the race for mayor, rejected any connection to the release of the recording.

“We don't know any of the people who put this out on Twitter,” said Sue Davis, Whitmire’s spokesperson. “We know nothing about it other than what everybody else does. And to try to accuse our camp of leaking it is just trying to take attention away from what is in the recording.”

In the 95-second audio clip, a woman is heard berating a man who sounds like a staffer, who was meekly explaining that a different member of a congressional team had the information she demanded about an assigned task.

“I want you to have read it. I want you to say, ‘Congresswoman, it was such and such date.’ That’s what I want,” the woman says in the recording, before lambasting him and the other staff member as “f---ed-ups and f---ing assholes,” "two goddamn big-ass children, f---ing idiots," who "serve no goddamn purpose."

"You ain't doing sh--, and this is an example of it,” she adds. The woman also makes reference to one person's weight.

The Chronicle reached out to current Jackson Lee staffers, and former staffers who seem to have been identified in the recording. None would verify the recording's authenticity.

Over the past three decades, critics have repeatedly attacked Jackson Lee and her top aides for demanding workloads and high turnover rates. Congressional staffers have also routinely voted for Jackson Lee as the “meanest” employer on Capitol Hill in Washingtonian Magazine’s “Best and Worst of Congress” lists.

LegiStorm, an online portal that monitors congressional staff, places Jackson Lee at the top of the list for historical turnover among Texas House members and tenants nationwide. Her turnover rate also has notably increased in recent years, placing her fourth among all U.S. House members in 2021 and 2022.

Jackson Lee previously told the Chronicle some of her loyal staffers have stuck with her throughout the years or have come back to work for her after some time. And those who've left, she said, have gone on to pursue successful careers elsewhere.

“What I can say is this, that everybody that leaves the office gets greater and greater because they have come from Sheila Jackson’s office,” she said. “I’ll always be proud of my staff and I wish them all well."

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