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Shop NowStaff covered up for missing lawmaker Kay Granger. They never notified anyone that the representative for Texas’s 12th Congressional District is physically unable to leave the nursing home. They continue to deny she’s getting memory care but everyone knows she has severe dementia. She was MIA for the recent budget fight. That blew the lid off the cover up, because Granger is supposed to be “chairwoman emeritus” of the Appropriations Committee. They’re “responsible for all federal discretionary spending.”
Missing lawmaker controversy
Nobody noticed that Republican Congresswoman Kay Granger was missing until she had been gone a full six months. Everything was fine until “she suddenly disappeared from the public eye around July this year.”
That’s when “she cast her final vote against an amendment to reduce the salary of Deputy Assistant Administrator for Pesticide Programs to $1.” A decision the DOGE panel would approve of, and so would RFK, Jr., recently appointed secretary of Health and Human Services.
Going on vacation with everyone else, she simply didn’t return. Nobody noticed Granger was missing until the big budget battle started heating up. That’s when “a curious reporter at the local Dallas Express newspaper did some digging on Granger’s whereabouts.”
Her office was closed, as reporter Carlos Turcios soon discovered. He left messages on the still working answering machine but when he didn’t get a call back, he “went to her constituency office only to find absolutely no signs of life or activity.”
Eventually, Turcios talked to the right “local resident,” who tipped him off that “Granger was residing at an assisted living facility specializing in memory care.”
The missing lawmaker had been moved in after “having been found wandering lost and confused in her former Cultural District/West 7th neighborhood.” Employees of the home confirmed she is a resident but wouldn’t say much else.
Raising lawmaker concern
The situation could be much worse than it is. Ms. Granger “had already announced her retirement at the end of this Congress.” Luckily, the shutdown fight is the only big vote the missing congresswoman wasn’t around for.
After the January switchover, “the seat will be held by Craig Goldman, a Republican who was formerly a member of the Texas House of Representatives.” At the same time, it’s raising a lot of concern among lawmakers.
There are a whole bunch of octogenarian members of the legislative branch. Even the ones who physically show up at the office are mentally missing for huge chunks of the day.
Nancy Pelosi recently took a nasty fall on some European stairs, fracturing her hip. Republicans have control of the house but only by a slim margin and everyone’s vote is critical. That incident made Nancy “miss the votes on committee assignments.”
As pointed out by Granger’s fellow Republican from Texas, Tony Gonzales, “Sadly, you know, some of these members wait until it’s too long, til things have gone too far. I think this goes–gets back to the root of it. Congress should do its job, and if you can’t do your job, maybe you shouldn’t be there.”
Missing in action isn’t a valid option. If you’re not going to be there, someone needs to tell the world that you’re out of the game. Senator Mitch McConnell announced his retirement. He “appeared to freeze twice in recent months.” A few days before Nancy Pelosi’s little trip downstairs, McConnell “fell this December and appeared battered and bruised on his face.“
