(Julianna Frieman, Headline USA) The search for missing Rep. Kay Granger, R-Texas, ended in the memory care unit at an assisted living facility in late December.
Tarrant County residents speculated that Granger’s six-month-long absence was the result of the 81-year-old congresswoman’s cognitive decline. One outraged Texan said on Thursday that Granger was placed in a memory care facility and that her taxpayer-funded salary should be cut off.
I'm hearing she's in a memory care unit. Can't confirm details yet. We need to have standards (something like) 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 (@TXfairfighter) December 20, 2024
“I’m hearing she’s in a memory care unit. Can’t confirm details yet. We need to have standards (something like) 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!” X user @TXfairfighter wrote to one man who asked, “Where’s Kay?”
Granger’s last vote was cast on July 24, according to her roll call vote page. The Dallas Express found no success attempting to reach Granger’s district and D.C. offices on the phone, so the Texas news outlet’s team took their investigation directly to the source.
Upon visiting her district office, The Dallas Express learned the congresswoman, who is retiring and did not seek reelection in the recent cycle, had the place shut down as if she already abandoned her job as a public servant.
🚨BREAKING: A Director for the senior living facility told us that “This is her home.” Congresswoman Granger has not been voting since July. Why have the public/constituents been left in the dark about the nature of her absence? Does CD12 have no representation?@DallasExpress pic.twitter.com/0MByEFsUHe
— Carlos Turcios (@Carlos__Turcios) December 20, 2024
A constituent told The Dallas Express that Granger was locked in a memory facility after she was caught “lost and confused” in her neighborhood. Reporters from the outlet traced down and visited the facility under the guise of requesting an interview on the recent federal spending bill, but they were blocked from seeing the congresswoman.
“This is her home,” Taylor Manziel, an assistant executive director of the senior living facility, told The Dallas Express.
The fact that Kay Granger is unable to leave her nursing home to participate in the most important congressional vote of the year suggests she was already in visible decline when she ran for re-election in 2022.
A sad and humiliating way to end her political career. Sad that… https://t.co/ElXhv6wWcW
— Rolando Garcia (@rdgarcia03) December 20, 2024
Tarrant County Republican Chairman Bo French raised alarm over Granger leaving her constituents without representation in Congress, according to the outlet.
“The lack of representation for CD-12 is troubling to say the least. At a time when extraordinarily important votes are happening, including debt ceiling, disaster relief, farm bills and border issues, Kay Granger is nowhere to be found. The margin in Congress is razor thin and the lack of a Republican vote representing CD-12 disenfranchises 2 million people. We deserve better,” French said.
Julianna Frieman is a freelance writer published by the Daily Caller, Headline USA, The Federalist, and The American Spectator. Follow her on Twitter at @JuliannaFrieman.
