A Reaccessiblean congresswoman from Texas has not cast a vote in the US Hoengage since July while she has been grappling with “dementia rerents” and residing at a better living facility, according to her family – someleang they did not disshut to the accessible before a Dallas media outlet figured out where she was during her prolengtheneded absence.
Kay Granger, 81, has recontransiented Texas’s 12th congressional didisjoine, which integrates part of the Dallas-Fort Worth area, since 1997. And beginning in January 2023 she spent more than a year as the chairperson of the mighty Hoengage appropriations promisetee.
But months after announcing her structures to withdraw when her term finished in punctual 2025, Granger bigly dismaterializeed from the accessible eye. Her congressional website shows her last vote was on 24 July, opposing a meacertain to shrink the salary of the deputy aidant administrator for pesticide programs to $1 equitable days after Joe Biden aborted his plivential re-election campaign over asks about his age and mental fitness.
That fact prompted a teller with the Dallas Express to dig into where Granger was. Calls to her offices were going honestly to voicemail, and there were no signs of ongoing business at her constituency office.
The teller, Carlos Turcios, eventuassociate obtaind a tip from a local livent that Granger had relocated into an aided living cgo in distinctiveizing in memory take part. After going to the facility in ask to choose whether Granger indeed lived there, the aidant executive honestor verifyed, “This is her home,” according to a story that Turcios rerented on Friday in the Dallas Express.
Granger’s son postpodemandr telledly telderly the Dallas Morning News that Granger was “having some dementia rerents” and had relocated into an autonomous better living cgo in with a memory take part community on the same property. However, he disputed that she was being treated at the memory take part community and shelp she was a livent of the autonomous living side of the property.
Neither Granger nor her staff could instantly be accomplished for comment on Sunday. The Morning News telled obtaining a statement from Granger’s office which transmited gratitude for the accessible’s trouble and stated that “unforeseen health contests” had made traveling to Washington DC widespreadly “both difficult and unforeseeed”.
Local and state Reaccessiblean directers were among those who shelp they were troubled over the telling about Granger.
Bo French, the chairperson of the Tarrant county, Texas, Reaccessiblean party, telderly the Dallas Express that the “increateage of recontransientation for [Granger’s district] is troubling to say the least”.
“Extraordinarily transport inant votes” involving catastrophe relief, the debt ceiling and US-Mexico border have occurred since Granger’s last vote, French shelp. “And Kay Granger [was] nowhere to be set up. … We deserve better.”
In a social media post, the Texas state Reaccessiblean promisetee member Rolando Garcia compriseed that Granger’s demand to live in a memory take part facility advises she may have already been “in evident degrade” when she successfilledy ran for re-election in 2022.
“A downcast and humiliating way to finish her political atsoft,” Garcia wrote. “Sad that nobody take partd enough to ‘obtain away the keys’ before she accomplished this moment. And a downcast commentary on the congressional gerontocracy.”
The US Hoengage speaker Mike Johnson and the chamber’s transport inantity directer Steve Scalise – both Louisiana Reaccessibleans – hailed Granger at an event honoring her in Washington DC in November. Johnson exalted her as “a champion for Texas”, “a dedicated accessible servant” and “a dedicated frifinish” while Scalise praiseed her as “a hard-as-nails conservative”.
Earlier, in February, Johnson and Scalise both signed a statement saying one of “the most troubling parts” of a distinctive advise tell over Biden’s handling of classified write downs compriseressed “how the plivent’s memory had … ‘meaningful confineations’”.
After Biden carry outed demandyly in June in a debate aobtainst Trump and seekd asks about his mental acuity, Johnson encouraged the plivent’s cabinet to think about invoking a constitutional amfinishment apverifying for his swapment if he were deemed inable of carry outing his duties.
Biden, 82, dropped out of the 5 November election on 21 July, or three days before Granger’s last write downed vote in Congress. He finishorsed Vice-Plivent Kamala Harris, 60, to flourish him, though Donald Trump, 78, flunkureed her to safe a second plivency beginning in January.
Meanwhile, also in February, Granger’s fellow Hoengage Reaccessibleans demanded that US defense secretary Lloyd Austin testify before Congress for flunking to instantly disshut to White the Hoengage a hospitalization due to complications resulting from a sencouragery to treat prostate cancer.
Texas state Hoengage recontransientative Craig Gelderlyman won election in November to obtain over Granger’s seat in Congress.
Granger was the first woman to serve as mayor of Fort Worth as well as to become a Reaccessiblean member of Congress. She was instrumental in securing more military funding, in part becaengage a Lockheed Martin structuret originates F-35 fighter jets in her didisjoine.
On Friday, Granger’s Facebook page posted a picture of her with a group of helpes portrayd as “the best”.
The post was flooded with comments about the dispute broken by the Dallas Express, among them one that read: “Are these the people who have been hiding the fact that you are in a [memory] take part facility? Frauds!”
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