Republican congresswoman from Texas She has not cast a vote in the US House since July while she was diagnosed with “dementia issues” and resides at a senior living facility, according to her family. – something they didn’t open up in public until the Dallas media outlets figured out where that long absence was.
Kay GrangerHe has represented the 81st, 12th Texas Congressional district, which includes part of the Dallas-Fort Worth area, since 1997. And starting in January 2023, he has spent more than a year as chairman of the House of Representatives’ powerful appropriations committee.
But months after announcing plans to retire when his term ends in early 2025, Granger has largely disappeared from the public eye. Her Council website His last vote was on July 24, opposing a measure to reduce the salary of the deputy administrator for the pesticide program to $1 just days after Joe Biden destroyed his re-election campaign for president over issues of age and mental fitness.
That fact was brought up with a reporter Dallas Express to dig where Granger was. Calls to their offices went directly to voice mail, and there were no signs of ongoing business in the office.
The reporter, Carlos Turcios, received a tip from a local resident that Granger moved in to help a special memory care center. After being asked at the facility whether Granger lived there, the assistant executive director confirmed, “This is his house,” according to a story the Turkeys published Friday in the Dallas Express.
Granger’s son later told the match Dallas News that Granger was “having the onset of dementia” and was being moved to a senior living center with a memory community on the same property for treatment. However, he argued that she was treated with care in the community’s memory and said she was an independent living property resident.
Neither Granger nor his staff could immediately be reached for comment on Sunday. The Morning News reported obtaining a statement from Granger’s office, which expressed gratitude for public concern and declared that “unexpected health challenges” made travel to Washington DC often “so difficult and uncertain.”
Local leaders and Republicans were among those who said they were troubled by Granger’s report.
Bo- Gallice, president of the county of Tarrant; TexasThe Republican Party, the Dallas Express, reported a “failure of representation.” [Granger’s district] It is difficult to say the least.”
“Extraordinarily important votes” related to disaster relief, the debt ceiling and the US-Mexico border have occurred since Granger’s last vote, French said. “And Kay Granger [was] nowhere to be found. …we deserve better.”
In a social media post, Texas State Committee member Rolando Garcia added that Granger’s work on a living care facility suggests she may already be “in visible decline” when she successfully ran for re-election in 2022.
“A messy and abandoned road to the end of his career,” Garcia wrote. “It’s sad that no one cared enough to take away the keys” before he reached this moment. And a sad commentary on the gerontocracy of the council.
US House Speaker Mike Johnson and House Majority Leader Steve Scalise – or Louisiana Republicans – called Granger served in Washington DC in November. Johnson hailed her as a “champion for Texas,” a “faithful public servant” and a “loyal friend,” while Scalise described her as a “nails-and-nails conservative.”
Earlier, in February, Johnson and Scalise both signed a statement saying that one of the most troubled parties was the special counsel’s report on the handling of classified documents about Biden that addressed “how the president’s memory had significant limitations”.
After Biden performed poorly in a debate against Trump in June, he invited questions about Johnson’s mental acuity urged allowing the president’s cabinet to call for consideration of the amendment of the constitution, as later, if he was deemed unfit to perform his duties.
Biden, 82, dropped out of the Nov. 5 election on July 21, or three days before the last vote in Congress, Granger said. Vice President Kamala Harris, 60, has agreed to succeed Donald Trump, 78, who won her vice presidency in early January.
Meanwhile, also in February, Granger, House Republicans he demanded that US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin had failed to testify before Congress immediately to the White House to disclose his hospitalization as a result of complications from prostate cancer surgery.
Texas state house representative Craig Goldman in November he won the election to take Granger’s seat in Congress.
Granger was the first woman to serve as mayor of Fort Worth and become a member of the Republican Congress. She was instrumental in spending more money on the military, in part because Lockheed Martin is breaking up its F-35 plant in the country.
On Friday, Granger’s Facebook page featured a photo of her with a group of supporters described as “the best”.
The post was flooded with comments about the scandal broken by the Dallas Express, including those who read: “You are these people who hid you because you [memory] care facility? Fraud!”
The Associated Press reports