The Daily Wire weighs in on the Sheila Jackson Lee airline ticket fiasco

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Woman Accuses United Airlines Of Giving Her First-Class Seat To Democratic Congressswoman

Then Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee did what she does best: Charge racism

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Jean-Marie Simon, a 63-year-old attorney and private school teacher, was on a loooooong trip back home.

On December 3, Simon had used 140,000 of her frequent flyer miles to buy a first-class, round-trip ticket from Washington, D.C. to Guatemala. On December 18, she was heading back home, flying from Guatemala to D.C. through George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston.

But when Simon went to board her flight for the final leg of her trip, the gate attendant who scanned her paper ticket told her she wasn't in the system — at all. No trace.

"It was just so completely humiliating," she said.

The attendant asked Simon if she had canceled her ticket, and she said, "No. I just want to go home." But Simon was told that the seat she had purchased, 1A — the seat she held a hard ticket for — was already taken. United Airlines offered her a $500 voucher and another ticket in Row 11, Economy Plus. She took it.

When Simon boarded, she saw someone in "her" seat, but not until later did she learn it was Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, Texas Democrat.

Simon posted a lengthy narrative about her ordeal on Facebook, alleging that The Washington Post killed the story:

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