'Missing' GOP Congresswoman Not Seen For Six Months Finally Found Living at Dementia Care Home

[Nevilledog]

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/12/missing-gop-congresswoman-not-seen-six-months-finally/


A Republican Congresswoman who has been “missing” for the past six months has finally been found.

Rep. Kay Granger, 81, has served as the representative for Texas’s 12th Congressional District since 1997.

However, she suddenly disappeared from the public eye around July this year, when she cast her final vote against an amendment to reduce the salary of Deputy Assistant Administrator for Pesticide Programs to $1.

A curious reporter at the local Dallas Express newspaper did some digging on Granger’s whereabouts and has finally been able to give her constituents some answers.

The reporter, Carlos Turcios, began by contacting her offices, from which they went directly to voicemail.

“I am sorry we are unable to answer your phone right now,” Granger said. “We are really glad you called us.

*snip*

[question everything]

1. And was re-elected last November? On edit, no.

Last edited Sat Dec 21, 2024, 07:29 PM - Edit history (1)

[SheltieLover]

2. Seriously???

[Self Esteem]

3. No. She announced back in 2023 she would not run for reelection.

https://www.keranews.org/texas-news/2023-10-31/kay-granger-not-running-for-reelection

[Attilatheblond]

8. Doesn't seem she was running, so, no, not re-elected

https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/rep-kay-granger-announces-she-will-not-seek-re-election/3375437/]

By Deborah Ferguson and Tahera Rahman • Published November 1, 2023 • Updated on November 1, 2023 at 6:28 pm

Longtime Fort Worth congresswoman Kay Granger will not run for re-election.

“Today I am announcing that I will not seek re-election to the United States House of Representatives in 2024. Serving my community has been the greatest honor, and I have always fought to improve the lives of my constituents," Granger announced in a press release on her website.

"As I announce my decision to not seek re-election, I am encouraged by the next generation of leaders in my district. It’s time for the next generation to step up and take the mantle and be a strong and fierce representative for the people."

~~~~~~~~~~~~

Texas House District 12 General Election Results 2024

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-elections/texas-us-house-district-12-results]

The race in Texas's 12th Congressional District is between Democrat Trey Hunt and Republican Craig Goldman. The race is for an open seat. The seat is currently held by a Republican.

[onenote]

10. It pays to read linked articles before commenting on them.

The article specifically states: "Granger had already announced her retirement at the end of this Congress.
From January, the seat will be held by Craig Goldman, a Republican who was formerly a member of the Texas House of Representatives."

Maybe you want to delete your post?

[question everything]

20. No. The four paragraphs that we post should be the relevant ones, not the first four

Many of us who post stories, especially long ones pay extra attention to post the most relevant paragraphs, with a lot of "snips" in between.

Why read the posts here if we have to check the links?

That sentence of not running for re-elections was at the bottom of the relatively short story and the OP should have included it.

[Attilatheblond]

34. "Why read the posts here if we have to check the links? "

Um, because it pays to be better informed? Not every pertinent point can be quoted here. It's nice when the OP provides a link for those interested in actually getting the whole story.

[question everything]

35. Of course, and many do. But the OP should provide the main points. Here it was a relatively short

story and the very last line was that she was not planning to run again. This should have been included in the OP.

Too often some here just post the links. I never click. If the OP was too lazy to provide a few relevant paragraphs then I am not going to do their work. Yes, my loss.

Most of us, who regularly post stories, myself included do take the time to include the relevant paragraphs, especially if the source is restricted like the WSJ, WaPO, NYT and others.

[Attilatheblond]

36. I appreciate that you, and others, including myself will post excerpts from linked sources

But copyright laws do limit what can be shared, and perhaps what you or I consider to be the MOST important portions do not match the OP's evaluation or views. The OP cannot read your mind, nor mine to tell what WE personally think is most relevant.

If ya don't like the OP, do it yourself, your way.

[question everything]

42. The OP of this thread is not mine! So what are you talking about?

I usually don’t go back and forth but you jumped in the middle so why not read from the beginning?

I will recap:

I commented on the OP because the last sentence of the story - an important one - was not included.

Someone suggested that I read the link and I replied that we should get the important points from the OP without clicking on the link.

And yes, we can accomplish this within the copyright guidelines. I, and many here have for years.

[Bread and Circuses]

4. So, collecting federal pay check

As a congressperson.

Where are her staff? Who’s running her DC Office and local Office ?

And doesn’t the Speaker know? Or does he and he’s covering it up.

It’s Texas , Rat Republicans lie about everything and covering up this?
Hey Gov Greg Abbott, clueless and part of the coverup?

This is insane! Need an investigation, her TX GOP delegation didn’t notice ???
Scamming the taxpayers

[paleotn]

18. Republicans have offices and staff?

Why would they need them?

It's not like they do anything useful and their votes are pre programmed. Even the Freedumb Caucus. They just vote no on everything no matter what it is.

[Bluethroughu]

22. Disgusting! This IS the GOP!

[Attilatheblond]

5. Considering the thin GOP margine, I would like a peek at 'her' recorded votes in the last 6 months

Has someone been voting for her?

[Self Esteem]

9. Looks like she's missed a lot of votes the last few months.

Since July, there have been 182 votes and she's only cast 28. My guess is that most those votes were in the early session (around July) as she cast zero votes (out of 62) in the November/December sessions.

[malaise]

19. Great question

Rec

[blogslug]

6. sigh

I'm not denying the veracity of this news but the Gateway Pundit sucks, as does the Dallas Express.

Kay Granger announced in October 2023 that she was retiring. Craig Goldman ran to replace her and won. He will be representing TX 12th in the upcoming 119th Congress.

[malaise]

7. Was she re-elected in November?

Help

[Attilatheblond]

11. Nope, She was NOT running in Nov 2024

[onenote]

14. It says in the linked article that she had announced her retirement and someone else had been elected in November.

This is why I encourage folks to read linked articles before commenting on them.

[malaise]

16. LOL

Not for a Texas Rep😀

[Marthe48]

12. Get all of the rwnj out of the House

and into a home.

[Diamond_Dog]

13. What a blatant disregard not only for her constituents

But for the taxpayers too.

[jls4561]

15. Damn! Read the title and was hoping it would be MTG!

Virginia Fox would be OK also.

[MagickMuffin]

17. Granger was my Rep. I never received an answer to why she was in Moscow

On our nation’s independence with Vladimir Putin. Hopefully her retirement community keeps her safe from windows!

[eppur_se_muova]

21. Just one ? Well, it's a start. nt

[3auld6phart]

23. That is indeed

A sad state of affairs, the’pukes can’t look after their own. But other than that she is no loss, After all she is a TEASS puke….

[spooky3]

24. So, for at least the first 3 months of 2025, GOP holds only one seat more

Than Dems do (since Granger can’t vote)?

[blogslug]

25. Granger did not run this year. Craig Goldman ran and won and will take the oath this January.

It's wrong that Granger did not step down. It's wrong that her office and the entire GOP kept her dementia secret. However, Craig Goldman will be among the total GOP members of congress in the next session.

[spooky3]

26. Thanks. Nt

[karynnj]

27. This may not be true -- this House article says she was honored this last November

https://appropriations.house.gov/news/blogs/members-celebrate-texas-tough-kay-granger

[blogslug]

29. With photos!

Thank you for finding this.

[karynnj]

31. I am mystified seeing this story creep from fringe to less fringe to mainstream today

Yesterday, when I saw the story, I googled to see if better sources had it. One hit that came up was this House PR article. I kept thinking maybe I missed something or that the date was earlier. I then reread making sure it was written as if she was there. At this point, it is possible she is suffering from memory loss/dementia and her staff or family insured she made it to this ceremony.

I think she still was chair, which is very strange that she was not replaced in leadership. Even if she were just a backbencher her absence should have been questioned especially as the speaker had bills where he needed every vote he could get.

Something is very fishy here. I wonder if it is a trap for MSM if untrue. Saying that they trusted Gateway and other RW sites, the daily mail, and the daily beast are not good reasons for not investigating what should be a jaw dropping story.

[blogslug]

40. Here is a reliable source

Her son says that she's in an independent living facility, she has memory issues but she is not currently in memory care:

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2024/12/22/republican-rep-kay-granger-texas-missed-votes-dementia/

archive link: https://archive.ph/ZVtbb

From South Carolina, Brandon Granger, 52, told The Dallas Morning News Sunday morning, “It’s been a hard year,” adding it has been a surprise how quickly it progressed.

Brandon said his mother is living at Tradition Senior Living in Fort Worth, but she is not in a memory care facility, as some media reports have stated. He said that while the facility has a memory care community on the same property, Rep. Granger resides in the independent living facility.

On its website, Tradition Senior Living says it offers “resort-style living with ultra-inclusive services” on “approximately six acres along the Trinity River with miles of walking trails.” Brandon said she made the move because she wanted to be in a more active community of other older people.

“There’s nothing wrong with someone wanting to live in a community with other folks their age,” he said. “She’s in a building with a lot of other folks her age that are super active that she really loves. She has exercise classes, she gets to be around people all the time, it’s wonderful for her for this point in life.”

[karynnj]

45. Thank you.

Her son's description is similar to many high end independent living places. It sounds like a nice place.

I hope there will be answers about both her DC and district offices. It sounds like the district one closed at the end of November. It sounds like constituent services may have stopped then. If the DC office was not active, you would think other Representatives would know, especially those in nearby offices.

[Srkdqltr]

28. How sad. The poor woman. No one noticed? No family or secretary to announce her illness? How sad.

[Emile]

30. She and her staff need to refund our tax dollars that went to pay their salaries.

[Blue_Tires]

32. Donnie needs to join her

[Blue_Tires]

33. Gateway pundit? 🤨

[Emrys]

37. Yup. If you hadn't responded, I was about to.

I never expected to see Gateway Pundit, a site described by Wikipedia as "a far-right fake news website", founded and run by Jim Hoft, long notorious as "the dumbest man on the Internet", cited as a source on DU.

For all I know, its story this time may be accurate, but that would be an extreme rarity.

I don't think this place should be giving it clicks, especially when it seems there are plenty of other sources for this story.

[Emrys]

38. Some skepticism about this story's been expressed above.

I'd seriously question using Gateway Pundit as a source for anything. It's been notorious since 2004 for being pretty much the worst wingnut disinformation site in the USA, if not the world.

From Wikipedia:

The Gateway Pundit is known as a source of viral falsehoods and hoaxes. It has been described by the Harvard Journal of Law & Technology as one of the websites that "primarily propagate fake news", by Newsweek as a fake news website, and by CNN as a website "prone to peddling conspiracy theories".

In August 2019, journalism professors Erik P. Bucy and John E. Newhagen observed that "the most aggressive fake news sites and associated YouTube channels, such as InfoWars, The Gateway Pundit, and The Daily Stormer, are routinely sued by victims of these published reports for libel and defamation." As a result of a number of lawsuits against The Gateway Pundit over its false stories, it was reported in March 2018 that Hoft had told his writers to be more careful: "I don't want any more lawsuits so we have to be really careful with what we put up." Hoft said that he believed the lawsuits were "part of a multi-pronged effort to attack media outlets on the right".

In November 2019, the Wikipedia community deprecated The Gateway Pundit as an untrustworthy source of information, due to it "publishing hoax articles and reporting conspiracy theories as fact".

In July 2021, a spokesperson for Google said that the company had demonetized The Gateway Pundit's homepage and some of its articles: "We have strict publisher policies that prohibit content promoting anti-vaccine theories, COVID-19 misinformation, and false claims about the 2020 U.S. Presidential election – and our enforcement can be as targeted as demonetizing a specific page. We already actioned the majority of pages shared from this report back in 2020 or early 2021 and similarly stopped serving ads on the site's homepage last year. We will continue to take appropriate action if new content is uploaded that violates our policies."

In September 2021, Google demonetized the entire site. A Google spokesman said "We gave the Gateway Pundit ample notice to address persistent policy violations before we took action. We will not serve Google ads on the site until they can comply with our guidelines." The decision took place a few days ahead of the airing of a French documentary in which a Google representative was confronted with printouts of ads on the site.

Plenty more at the link about its long record of spreading concocted stories about Democrats, Hillary Clinton etc. At the very least, I don't think DU should be sending traffic its way.

[Nevilledog]

39. ...

Link to tweet

Ken Klippenstein
@kenklippenstein
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The claim that no one knew about congresswoman Kay Granger's dementia is laughable. Here she is speaking before Congress back in March, stammering and stumbling over every sentence while relying verbatim on a written script. This is painful to watch:


3:21 PM · Dec 22, 2024

[Emrys]

41. And what has that to do with the fact that Gateway Pundit is a notorious and atrocious right-wing propaganda site?

A quick Google search showed many non-right-wing media covering this. That's why citing Gateway Pundit is mystifying.

[Nevilledog]

43. They were the first to report it, that's when the OP was posted. Other media has caught up.

[Celerity]

48. Please take it down. It's an hard RW CT and fakes news shit site.

Cheers,

Cel

[Skittles]

44. another example of someone who should have retired long ago

seems like being a congress critter isn't that hard if you can do it from a nursing home

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

46. politicians never want to retire

[Celerity]

47. The Gateway Pundit is an American far-right fake news website. The website is known for publishing falsehoods, hoaxes,

and conspiracy theories.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gateway_Pundit


You should delete this OP.

[ThePartyThatListens]

49. Of course