A Republican Congresswoman who has been “lacking” for the previous six months has lastly been discovered.
Rep. Kay Granger has served because the consultant for Texas’s twelfth Congressional District since 1997.
Nevertheless, she all of a sudden disappeared from the general public eye round July this 12 months, when she solid her closing vote in opposition to an modification to cut back the wage of Deputy Assistant Administrator for Pesticide Packages to $1.
A curious reporter on the native Dallas Categorical newspaper did some digging on Granger’s whereabouts and has lastly been capable of give her constituents some solutions.
The reporter, Carlos Turcios, started by contacting her places of work, from which they went on to voicemail.
“I’m sorry we’re unable to reply your cellphone proper now,” Granger stated. “We’re actually glad you known as us.
“Please depart your title, cellphone quantity and a quick message and somebody in our workplace will name you again as quickly as doable.”
The reporter then went to her constituency workplace solely to seek out completely no indicators of life or exercise.
Seemingly at a lifeless finish, Turcios then acquired a tip-off from a neighborhood resident that Granger was residing at an assisted dwelling facility specializing in reminiscence care.
His report explains:
We then acquired a tip from a Granger constituent who shared that the Congresswoman has been residing at a neighborhood reminiscence care and assisted dwelling dwelling for a while after having been discovered wandering misplaced and confused in her former Cultural District/West seventh neighborhood.
The Dallas Categorical group visited the ability to verify whether or not Granger was residing there and to inquire about how she deliberate to vote on the spending invoice. Upon arrival, two staff confirmed that Granger is certainly dwelling on the facility.
Nevertheless, we weren’t permitted to conduct an interview concerning the present spending debate within the Home of Representatives and the way or if Ms. Granger deliberate to vote.
Taylor Manziel who’s the Assistant Govt Director for the senior dwelling facility acknowledged to The Dallas Categorical that “That is her dwelling.”
It stays unclear why Granger’s family members or employees declined to reveal her situation to the general public.
Amongst these to specific their displeasure on the state of affairs was State Republican Govt Committeeman Rolando Garcia, who described it as a “unhappy and humiliating strategy to finish her political profession.”
The truth that Kay Granger is unable to go away her nursing dwelling to take part in crucial congressional vote of the 12 months suggests she was already in seen decline when she ran for re-election in 2022.
A tragic and humiliating strategy to finish her political profession. Unhappy that… https://t.co/ElXhv6wWcW
— Rolando Garcia (@rdgarcia03) December 20, 2024
Granger had already introduced her retirement on the finish of this Congress.
From January, the seat will probably be held by Craig Goldman, a Republican who was previously a member of the Texas Home of Representatives.
