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Absent GOP Congresswoman Found In Assisted Living Home: Report
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By Peter Wade
Republican Rep. Kay Granger, who has missed 100 percent of votes in the House since July 24, has been in an assisted living and memory care
home, according to a report. Her staff denies that she is in memory care, with communications director Valerie Nelson
telling Rolling Stone via email, “Kay Granger is not in Memory Care.”
Nelson also shared a state- ment from the congress- woman, who said she has been experiencing “unfore- seen health challenges over the past year”:
I am deeply grateful for the outpouring of care and
concern over the past sev- eral days.
As many of my family, friends, and colleagues have known, I have been navigating some unfore- seen health challenges over the past year. However, since early September, my health chal- lenges have progressed making frequent travel to Washington both difficult and unpredictable. During this time, my staff has remained steadfast, contin- uing to deliver exceptional constituent services, as they have for the past 27 years.
In November, I was able to return to DC to hold meet- ings on behalf of my con- stituents, express my grati-
tude to my staff, and over- see the closure of my Washington office. It has been the honor of a lifetime to serve the city of Fort Worth—as a city council member, as mayor, and as a Member of Congress.
Thank you for your contin- ued prayers and support that you have extended to me.
Staff writer Carlos Turcios wrote in The Dallas Express that he “received a tip from a Granger con- stituent who shared that the Congresswoman has been residing at a local memory care and assisted living home for some time after having been found wandering lost and con- fused in her former Cultural District/West 7th neighbor- hood.” So he began to look for Granger.
Turcios reported that calls to Granger’s D.C. and dis- trict office went straight to voicemail. He found her district office vacant with “no sign of the office con- tinuing to be occupied.” Employees in the building where her district office was located said that her staff closed the office before Thanksgiving.
Following the tip he received, Turcios visited the assisted living and memory care facility where two employees confirmed she has been living there.
“This is her
home,” Tradition Senior Living in Fort Worth‘s Assistant Executive Director Taylor Manziel told Turcios in a video posted to The Dallas Express website.
Granger was seen in public on Nov. 18 in Washington, D.C., for the unveiling of her new portrait that now hangs in the House Appropriations Committee main hearing room. Granger became chair in Jan. 2023 and announced she would be stepping down from the role in March of this year. She announced she would not seek re-election to Congress in Oct. 2023.
The page on Granger’s congressional website that once listed all of Granger’s votes now shows an error message: “The page you have requested does not exist or is undergoing rou- tine maintenance.”
A snapshot of that
page captured by the Internet Archive on Dec. 16, 2024, reveals the last time Granger cast a vote was July 24, 2024, when she opposed an amend- ment that would reduce the salary of Ya-Wei (Jake) Li, Deputy Assistant Administrator for Pesticide Programs, to $1. She missed the rest of the votes that day and has not voted since.
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