This right here is Pete Sessions car. The Texas plates with the House of Representatives lettering with House 32 on it sorta gives it away. I've seen it parked here a billion times in the past. This is Terminal C at DFW airport, it's the location from which American Airlines has most of their nonstop flights to Washington DC. Pete's car is often in this very parking spot (I've seen it here a number of times). It's the parking garage closest to the airport for the highest numbered gates for Terminal C.
What bothers me about this isn't what Pete Sessions drives, or his choice of bumper stickers, or the fact that he parks in the 18 dollar-a-day lot at the airport on the taxpayers' dime while then later fire branding about wasteful spending. What bothers me about this is that he parks this roadbeast here
That's his car on the left. If you'll notice that the next two spots to his car's right are empty. That's because it's a one-hour parking area. The one hour parking signs are all reflecting brightly due to the cell-phone camera I used to take these pictures.
If you'll look closely, however, you'll notice that Pete's spot doesn't have a "one hour" parking sign.
It's this part that pisses me off. Anybody who has been to DFW's terminal parking knows that the entire first row of parking, the area directly across from the entrances, are reserved for the valet parkers and the one-hour parking. This is true at every terminal and every garage. Everyone else, even those willing to pay the 18 bucks a day to park, has to hunt for spots up and down the rows. Not Pete. Nope, Pete's too good for that.
Why is Pete different? If Pete was a Democrat, and not just another corrupt Republican, dontcha think Pete himself would be railing against the effete liberal limousine Democrat who couldn't manage to park himself amongst the unwashed masses like everybody else? Probably so, but Pete apparently fancies himself of such upper crust that he doesn't have to follow the rules.
Another thing to consider here is this -- Pete represents one district in one county in Texas. DFW airport serves all of North Texas, and it's situated directly on the county line between Tarrant and Dallas Counties. There are probably a dozen other elected Representatives and at least one US Senator who also fly to DC from DFW out of that terminal, yet Pete is the only one "special" enough to command DFW to create a special "Pete Sessions" parking spot. Not even Kay Bailey Hutchinson, who lives in Dallas, commands the kind of arrogance necessary to pull off such an open "fuck you" elitist move to the people who voted for her. I'm really interested to know if that one-hour parking sign goes back up when Pete returns to Dallas and removes his car. In fact, Dallas / Ft. Worth Kossacks, if you're going to be around Terminal C anytime soon, check it out. If his car isn't there, and that one-hour sign returns, snap a picture of it.
Elitism. It's a word that's thrown around a lot by Republicans to describe Democrats. Sometimes with merit, often not. But how is it that soft-handed Republicans who wouldn't know a hammer from a hammerdrill from being hammered can time and again get away with this sort of open elitism without so much as a peep from either the media, or from Democrats hoping to unseat them.
I don't want to be over reactive here. This parking space issue isn't like he lied about why we had to go to war or something. But it's emblematic of who Pete Sessions is. He's too good to simply park his car in the high-dollar parking lot like the rest of the frequent travelers do. He has to have a "special" spot created just for him out of the one-hour spaces reserved for those coming to pick up their loved ones from the airport.
Who wants to bet Pete isn't paying for this out of his pocket?