The incident sparked outrage online after the sitting lawmaker was found in a dementia care facility after not being seen in public for several months.
Texas Republican Rep. Kay Granger was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1997 and announced at the end of 2023 that she will not seek re-election. She also abruptly resigned from the powerful House Appropriations Committee, last voting on it in July.
“We have sclerotic gerontism.”
an investigative reporter dallas express Deputies were unable to locate the 81-year-old woman until she received information that she had been found wandering and was admitted to a local memory care facility in Fort Worth.
Many people reacted angrily to the revelation online.
“I knewKay Granger has been around since she was a school teacher. No matter what you think about her politics, whoever decided to hide her condition from voters should rake up the stables tomorrow. ” answered Journalist Jodi Dean.
“According to records, she has 25 staff members. If any of them knew, and it would be difficult not to know, they are accomplices.” answered Angela Morabito.
Some used the incident to call for term limits.
“Kay Granger's prolonged absence reveals the problem with a Congress that values seniority and relationships over merit and ideas. We have a sclerotic gerontocracy.” said California Representative Ro Khanna, Democrat. “We need term limits. We need to get big money out of politics so a new generation of Americans can run and serve.”
Granger's son Confirmed She told The Dallas Morning News that her mother lives at Tradition Clearfork Center, but is in the independent living wing, not the memory care wing. However, he admitted that Mr Granger “had some issues with dementia later this year”.
Her office issued a statement denying that she was receiving memory care, as did a statement from a member of Congress.
“As many of my family, friends and colleagues know, I have been navigating unexpected health challenges over the past year,” Granger said in a statement.
He added that since September, “evolving health issues have made frequent travel to Washington difficult and unpredictable.”
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