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Jackson Lee berates staff in profanity-laced tirade
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee calls staff members profanity-based names as she berates one over a calendar event
By Greg Wehner Fox News

Published October 22, 2023 4:22pm EDT

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Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, was recently heard on recorded audio going off on one
of her staff members in a profanity-laced tirade in which she said he and another staff
member had no brains and are "f- -k-ups."

Jackson Lee, a Hillary Clinton-endorsed congresswoman who built a reputation in

Washington as being one of the "meanest" members of Congress, has represented the
same Houston, Texas district in the House of Representatives for over 28 years.

In March, Jackson Lee threw her name in the running to become the mayor of Houston in
an off-year election, which if elected, would bring her time in Congress to an end.

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In audio obtained by Texas newspaper Current Revolt and published on Saturday Jackson
Lee is heard speaking with a male staff member when she asked, "You took a piece of
paper from that woman regarding something that was owned by Duncantell. Where is it?
What date was it?"

The man answered by telling the representative he gave the piece of paper to Jerome, who
took it upstairs. The staff member then tells Jackson Lee he has to call Jerome, before
being cut off.

"Idon’t want you to do a [expletive] thing," she said. "I want you to have a [expletive] brain. I
want you to have read it. I want you to say, ‘Congresswoman, it was such and such a date.
That’s what I want. That’s the kind of staff that I want to have."

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WASHINGTON, DC - NOVEMBER 30: (L-R) U.S. Rep. Lucy McBath (D-GA) and U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas)
depart a leadership election meeting with the Democratic caucus in the Longworth House Office Building on Capitol Hill
November 30, 2022, in Washington, DC. Rep. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images) (Getty Images)

Jackson Lee continued to spew profanity at the staffer as she berated him over how she
expects her staff members to handle calendar events, especially those from Ovide
Duncantell, founder of the Black Heritage Society, Inc.

Rather than pawn it off to someone else, the congresswoman said she needs whoever
took the information about the event to know when and where the event takes place.

But in this case, the staffer sounded on the audio as if he gave it to another staffer.

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SPEECH’

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"When I called Jerome, he only sits up there like a fat [expletive], just talking about what
the [expletive] he doesn’t know," she said. "Both of y’all are [expletive]-ups…This is the
worst [expletive] that I could’ve ever had put together. Two [expletive] big [expletive]
children. [expletive] idiots. Serve no [expletive] purpose.

"Nobody’s respecting him, nobody gives a [expletive] about what you’re doing. And you
ain’t doing [expletive]. And this is an example of it. I gave it to Jerome. This is not child’s
work, ok," Jackson Lee said.

The congresswoman did not immediately respond to Fox News inquiries about the
recording.

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This is not the first time Jackson Lee has gone off on staff members. In fact, in 2011, a
Daily Caller report cited a number of former staff members as saying she used demeaning
language and name-calling when addressing them.

She also was accused of forcing her staff members to work long hours, even into the early
hours of the morning, and demanding them to drive her everywhere she went regardless of
how short the distance.

Jackson Lee was forced to resign as the chairwoman of the Congressional Black Caucus
Foundation (CBCF) in 2019 in the wake of a lawsuit by a former employee who claimed
she was fired as retaliation for planned legal action related to an alleged 2015 rape by a
supervisor.

According to The New York Times which first reported on Jackson Lee's plans to resign,
,

CBCF board members told Jackson Lee to step down as chairwoman or face a removal
vote after the lawsuit became public a week earlier.

In the suit the unnamed former staffer alleged she was raped while a CBCF intern by the
,

foundation's internship program coordinator and her supervisor at the time. Two years
later, she was hired to work for Jackson Lee, who had recently been made chairwoman of
the CBCF's board of directors. Shortly after she was hired, Doe said Jackson Lee received
a text message from the CBCF's chief executive at the time, A. Shaunise Washington.

"Ijust received a notification that you have a new staffer," Washington allegedly messaged
Jackson Lee, mentioning the staffer's name. "Call me, I have background on her."

The staffer said she was fired in March 2018, roughly two weeks after she told Jackson's
chief of staff, Glenn Rushing, that she had "recently learned more about her case involving
Mr. Jones and CBCF and planned to move forward with legal action" against the
foundation.

The lawsuit was dismissed in 2020.

Brandon Gillespie of Fox News Digital contributed to this report.

Greg Wehner is a breaking news reporter for Fox News Digital.

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