Texas Rep. Kay Granger Found At Senior Living Facility After Missing Months Of Crucial Votes

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Huff Post

Dec 22, 2024, 03:45 PM EST


After nearly five months without casting a vote, the case of absentee congresswoman Rep. Kay Granger (R-Texas) appears to have been solved.

In an investigation published on Friday, The Dallas Express revealed that it had found that the outgoing legislator was living at an assisted living home in Fort Worth, Texas.

The paper made its discovery while trying to track down Granger, 81, to learn how she was voting on a contentious stop-gap spending bill which had put factions of the Republican party at odds with one another.

Granger has represented Texas’ 12th Congressional District since 1997 and is set to retire from her role at the end of this term. Looking into the congressional roll call, the outlet found that the former mayor of Fort Worth’s last vote in Washington, D.C., was on July 24.

Read more: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/texas-kay-granger-senior-living-facility-dementia_n_67684ef6e4b0a0e013ac53ae

[leftieNanner]

1. Guessing she's been collecting a paycheck

All this time.

[IronLionZion]

6. Sounds like welfare

[erronis]

2. The only good repuglicon is

one who doesn't cast a vote.

[LeftInTX]

8. That's why she didn't tell anyone. She was actually somewhat decent. Her predecessor is not.

[FeelingBlue]

3. Is it legal to receive federal pay...

While not showing up for work? Isn’t that fraud? Or some other kind of crime? Like, it’s illegal to keep a dead person’s Social Security check. Right? Seems similar.

[LeftInTX]

9. Yes. It happens alot.

[IbogaProject]

22. The House have their own rules

If Gaetz got out with no punishment this incident won't even get a hearing.

[Kali]

4. she is a Texas repuke so probably an asshole, I don't know anything about her

but that is kind of a sad story...geez

[LeftInTX]

10. One of her constituents said she wasn't too bad. She was the former mayor of Ft Worth. Her predecessor sounds bad.

Mayors of large cities are used to compromise and in Texas, the positions are non-partisan. She was recruited by both the Democratic and Republican parties and chose to go with the GOP.

[niyad]

12. see post 11

[niyad]

11. She was one of the 8 who spent July 4, 2018, in moscow with putler.

[LeftInTX]

14. The guy who is replacing her is much worse.

https://www.craiggoldman.org/issues/

https://directory.texasscorecard.com/craig-goldman

https://www.tcta.org/texasteachersvote/find-candidates/texas-house-candidates/craig-goldman


ENDORSEMENTS

Governor Greg Abbott


Lt. Governor Dan Patrick



Former TRUMP Secretary of Energy and Former Governor Rick Perry

Former U.S. Senator Phil Gramm

[niyad]

16. I understnd that. I was simply responding to the poster who knew nothing

about her.

[LeftInTX]

18. Thread here

https://www.democraticunderground.com/107869882

[oasis]

20. Sen. Phil Gramm, who decided to retire just

before the Enron scandal broke. If I recall correctly, Phil’s wife was on Enron’s board of directors.

[LeftInTX]

21. Yes. Ugh.....

Apparently, he lives near me, but I wouldn't recognize him probably because he looks like so many other people around here.

He's got a fancy place out in the country. Helotes, Texas. (Next to San Antonio) I'm sure he frequents the Lowes near me.

[raccoon]

5. So...who's been doing her job.

Yall quit laughing.

[Diamond_Dog]

7. Talk about unnecessary spending!

Has Eloon been informed of this?

[niyad]

13. So nobody noticed she was missing for months? Or did they just assume

that she was back in moscow?

[BumRushDaShow]

15. They kept that hush hush out of the news

But see, if the GOP had any sense of decency and had continued former Speaker Pelosi's "proxy voting" option in their Rules, then Granger could have voted that way. But their spite job version of "governing" bites them in the ass every time.

[niyad]

17. Understood.

[LeftInTX]

19. No proxy votes. I think she didn't want Abbott to call a special election. Her replacement would have won.

She was in Washington on Nov 19th. So it was her decision not to make this public.

[BumRushDaShow]

24. The GOP-controlled House refused to allow proxy voting during their 118th Congressional session

which even prompted the lunatic (R) Anna Luna to protest not allowing it for pregnant members and demanding a Rules change the past couple years. And it was left out again as they continue to negotiate the new Rules for the House in the 119th Congress - https://www.aol.com/rep-luna-calls-speaker-johnson-000435996.html

So they knew about Granger and kept it under wraps while pointing and laughing at Biden and other Democrats (in order to hide their own issues by projection).

[LeftInTX]

27. Yeah. Pretty sure they knew. But there is nothing illegal about what she did.

She "went on leave" without telling the public. Of course, honesty is the best policy. I think she was afraid she would be pressured into resigning.

[BumRushDaShow]

28. "I think she was afraid she would be pressured into resigning."

And THAT is a problem that gets pushed by the GOP when it comes to Democrats instead of having some "decency and compassion".

Watch what happens when the new session starts and you have Emeritus Nancy Pelosi now with a new hip (and what will be weeks of PT and OT), where they will tear her a new one. They gave Turtle many passes but it was drama for Patrick Leahy (before he retired a couple years ago) when they were wheeling him into the Senate after hip surgeries -

[riversedge]

23. Odd story. She is being cared for and feel for anyone whose life ends

with dementia.

But being a public servant, she and her family and or Republican Party of Texas should have said she was not well at least.

[BumRushDaShow]

25. The issue isn't so much that you have members who are only "human"

with all the potential health issues that can crop up - particularly as one ages (she is 81). The problem is the rank hypocrisy of the GOP along with their lapdog M$M, with their complete lack of any decency attacking Democrats experiencing health issues (they worked over Fetterman when he had a stroke, demanded that Biden resign for what they allege are "health issues", and I won't even get into Dianne Feinstein or RGB fiasco and their continual drumbeat demanding they leave).

[Hugin]

26. My opinion is that the Republicans were fully aware of the situation...

And chose to do their usual, every accusation is a confession, routine to somehow protect their razor thin majority in the House.

It’s not like one day Granger woke up with a case of the dementia.

[BumRushDaShow]

29. Exactly.

You had people like David Trone (D) (MD-6) rolled in right out of surgery to vote (one of the many House Speaker votes Jan. 6, 2023) -

If they would allow proxy voting like was done under Democrats when we controlled the House, this whole thing wouldn't have been an issue.

[madville]

30. Never understood those that can't retire

On either side, they want to cling on until the bitter end, even at the detriment to their own party and its agenda. I guess some want the “honor” of dying in office, instead of just fading away.