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Still in office and collecting her congressional paycheck, though. That's the important thing.
Posted on 12/21/2024 12:19:35 PM PST by DFG
Amid the ongoing drama in D.C. with Congress furiously debating and voting on an interim spending bill a key question has arisen from constituents in Texas Congressional District 12, “Where is Congresswoman Kay Granger?”
Some Tarrant County residents have begun to speculate.
“I’m hearing she’s in a memory care unit. We need to have standards. Representatives who miss 3 votes in a row without announcing a legitimate medical reason should have their salaries and benefits frozen. This has to stop!” Fairfighter posted on X.
According to Ms. Granger’s roll call vote page, Grangers last vote was on July 24th, 2024 as she voted No to the “Amendment in the House H.Amdt. 1157 (Miller) to H.R. 8998: To reduce the salary of Ya-Wei (Jake) Li, Deputy Assistant Administrator for Pesticide Programs, to $1.”
Since then, Granger has not cast any votes in Washington on behalf of her Tarrant and Parker County constituents.
The Dallas Express attempted to reach her district and D.C. offices but calls went directly to voicemail where a recorded message from Congresswoman Granger plays.
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We then received a tip from a Granger constituent who shared that the Congresswoman has been residing at a local memory care and assisted living home for some time after having been found wandering lost and confused in her former Cultural District/West 7th neighborhood.
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In the meantime, Congresswoman Granger and her staff are currently remain on the taxpayer’s payroll until January 3rd, 2025, ostensibly taking early retirement and a long taxpayer-funded vacation while District 12 taxpayers have no representation in Congress.
(Excerpt) Read more at dallasexpress.com ...
Unbelievable.
When I asked the X Grok Ai tool about who drafted the original 1500 page CR bill it said Mike Johnson and this Kay Granger (who I’ve never heard of before) woman. How old is she if she’s in assisted living?
Kay Granger is 81. She has represented the Fort Worth, Texas area in Congress since 1997. She was previously the Fort Worth mayor.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kay_Granger
She should run for president!
This is almost certainly The Stayton, just someone call the switchboard and convince the knothead who answers to ring her room. Ask her why she's missed so many votes!
She was going to resign, but it slipped her mind.
On October 31, 2023, it was reported that she would not run for re-election in 2024. On March 22, 2024, she announced that she would be stepping down as chair of the House Appropriations Committee early.
Her staff probably felt if it was good enough for Biden, it was good enough for her. At least her staff had the decency to not try to run her again.
-PJ
She’s 81.
Something as simple as a UTI can cause severe memory loss and confusion at that age. And it’s temporary.
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Still in office and collecting her congressional paycheck, though. That's the important thing.
We need to get memory loss and confusion and forget to pay her salary!
There is no way we’ll hold the House for two years. It’s going to be a mess, with control shifting back and forth as representatives become incapacitated, die or disappear like Granger.
Post of the Day!
It is scary that the staff would cover up her condition for months—whenever I think the Swamp could not sink lower it proves me wrong.
Then there is Republican leadership—how could they not know her situation? (Hint: The Whip is the babysitters and counts votes. When members “disappear” it is their job to find them.)
There is no dishonor in getting old or sick.
There is dishonor in hiding it in a public facing position.
“If Ms. Granger is mentally incapacitated why didn’t she simply retire early .... “
My guess is her staff didn’t want her to resign because they were still cashing in.
Based on their track record, I would expect this from a Democrat, not a Republican.
My guess as to what happened is she starting “losing it” and had to go to a dementia facility in the district.
Her staff and Congressional leadership hoped it would be a short term issue and they could keep it secret.
Days turned into weeks turned into months and nobody wanted to step up and make the tough decision to come clean.
Meanwhile anyone who knew about their lying could blackmail the staff and Republican leadership.
Telling the truth is not only the correct thing to do—it makes life a lot easier for everybody.
Her “team” took the wrong lesson from the Biden debacle.
They focused on how easy it was to cover up the dementia—while failing to focus on the implications if the cover-up failed.
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