A Republican Congresswoman who has been “missing” for the past six months has finally been found.
Rep. Kay Granger 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.
[…]We then received a tip from a Granger constituent 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 confused in her former Cultural District/West 7th neighborhood.
The Dallas Express team visited the facility to confirm whether Granger was residing there and to inquire about how she planned to vote on the spending bill. Upon arrival, two employees confirmed that Granger is indeed living at the facility.
To be fair, dementia is not much of a hindrance for making GOP policies.
It’s not cognitive dissonance if you can’t remember what your values were to begin with.
Her voters would still vote for her
gotta own them Lib’s
Texas GOP sees this as an absolute win
It’s not a hindrance for either party. Did you watch the first presidential debate?
wush
Don’t get mad at me. I’m not the one who fielded a brain-damaged presidential candidate.
Still not sure which you’re referring to here
TBH, me neither.
Gotta love that a functioning brain is no longer a requirement to be president.
I’m not sure if the people downvoting you didn’t watch the debate or are so tribal that they’re offended by legitimate criticism of Biden
It’s not even criticism, really.
It’s just an observation, no different than looking up and saying the sky is blue.
Truthfully, though, this is a criticism of both parties. Trump is clearly brain-damaged too, and he showed is several times during the campaign. The difference is he’s still able to behave as expected, more-or-less, where Biden is not.
It appears like angry and demented is sustainable branding. You can keep getting paid as a politician long after your mental acuity has flown the coop.
Worked for Reagan
It’s working for Biden as we speak.
“We think there is no nefarious cause of the drones”
Gottem.
Quite the opposite, it’s almost a requisite at this point
tbf a magic 8 ball would do a better job
Who’s been doing her job since then? There is no way that can be legal. I’d bet the farm the same thing is happening to Mitch McConnell. No way that old bag of dust and bones is competent enough to do his job.
The interns have been accepting all the bribes and spending it on beer.
Don’t tell mom
the babysitter’s deadthe Congresswoman’s senileI’d watch this movie
We already are
I don’t wanna live it … just watch it
Heyheyhey! In America we call those “bribes” free speech for corporations. Bribes are illegal.
As a rep, her only job is to vote. She hires staff to carry out other responsibilities.
Kind of crazy how I get fired if I miss one day of work but senators can just not show up for weeks
Granger never let a little thing like legality stop her. Why start now?
My question is “How did they tell she was demented?”
GOP Congresswoman
Yeah, it’s a tautology
Some presidential candidates ripen before the election. Its natural.
Let me guess, Granger continued to collect her paycheck while “missing.”
Let’s talk about that woman later. Wtf is going on in Texas?? “An amendment to reduce the salary of Deputy Assistant Administrator for Pesticide Programs to $1” what did that person do that they put that on the agenda? Why is it possible to set a salary that low?
Realize that’s she’s a US house member, not a state legislature member. They were trying to defund the EPA in general by reducing salaries for individuals to $1 and it wasn’t just Texas.
Which is funny, because both Texas and Oklahoma ignore the EPA anyway. The Oklahoma turnpike authority is trying to pollute Norman’s drinking water, and build a turnpike through land that endangered toads live on. They aren’t conducting any sort of environmental impact assessment, because Oklahoma gave them permission not to. Texas has probably hundreds, if not thousands, of improperly shut down oil wells which spew all kinds of pollution.
From what I see his name was Jake Li and he was attempting to safeguard endangered species against pesticides. So… His position is now vacant. Guessing Texas couldn’t stand for it
He/they released this, so maybe I would have to more digging to gain further understanding.
https://texasfarmbureau.org/epa-releases-final-endangered-species-herbicide-strategy/
Edit: it appears he was “brought in” to that position when Biden entered office, and he is moving to the Department of Interior’s fish and wildlife division. I suspect that they knew the upcoming and current cuts to the EPA would thin them out and the Fish and Wildlife department is less likely to be gone after, as that’s who you get your hunting/fishing etc licenses from. I imagine the establishment that gives out licenses to shoot animals for fun, isn’t likely to be targeted by Republicans
I can see your angle on not hurting the licensing agency, but I could also see it as a tactic to make it all so inoperable that licenses effectively become unnecessary. A temporary order to not enforce licenses starts making it normal. It’s a stretch.
Unlicensed hunting leads to culling to much of a species in an area and ultimately it dying out. For the most part, even the dumb hunters understand if you kill to many this year hunting, there won’t be anything to hunt moving forward. So they wouldn’t want to chance not having the ability to hunt anything anymore I imagine. Same thing goes for the fishing and such. Though invasive species such as lionfish should be open season year round. But that is commonly done with diving gear, nets and spears usually because they have poisonous spines on them. (They do taste delicious though). They started an annual lionfish contest at a place I lived at about 7 years ago, so they had enough to feed everyone who came.
I’d be more concerned with sadistic tourist trophy hunters. Stuff like the multi-millionaires doing illegal African game hunts, but the local multi-hundred-thousandaires instead. But yeah, let’s hope there’s enough sensible hunters to help maintain any deregulation issues. And all this is IF it’s even at risk.
But who fuckin knows. You’d think clean air would be a safe bet to maintain as a positive, but big oil is getting their way both with the government and the propaganda to convince society it’s a masculine right to stroke the gas pump cock.
Sorry is this the onion or not
This community is for articles that you would think are from The Onion because they’re so crazy, but these articles are in fact genuine.
Back on the other website, someone once joked that surely /r/theonion+nottheonion must be the same as /r/all
The sum of all human knowledge isn’t Wikipedia, it’s the combination of two books:
- What They Teach You at Harvard Business School
- What They Don’t Teach You at Harvard Business School
this is why health reporting requirements should be made publicly available prior to election, imo
Imagine not showing up to your job for 6 months and people just going, “hmmm, I wonder where they are.”
They clearly cared a lot about her. She must be a very nice person.
I’m pretty sure the most important among them have known but were colluding in hiding it from the public.
This seems like a pretty important job to not just shuffle the person doing it into an old folks home! Like come on!
Literally a limited number per state. Even an midmanager would get called for running out of PTO way before then.So? I’m MUCH Happier with my Tax Dollars going to HER Salary then to Feeding Starving American Children!
Salaries for these folks is minuscule compared to expenses of War. Focus on what matters.
That’s right! Her salary should go to help pay for the war! /s
Is this what they mean by Reaganism?
She’s only 81, which is kind of young to be suffering that level of dementia. She has been diagnosed with Covid at least once. I wonder if that is related.
This can happen to anyone.
81 is current average US female life expectancy. Where would you suggest people ‘get old’?
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we were talking about dementia, not “getting old”. 81y life expectancy means if you look at the cohort of females born 81 years ago, about half of them will have already died, heart disease being the biggest cause. The relevant question is how many of them (both the dead and living ones) will have had bad enough dementia to have needed to be in a care home for it specifically? I don’t mean for mild forgetfulness, occasional senior moments, etc.
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81y (actually 80y per 2021 table, https://www.ssa.gov/oact/STATS/table4c6.html ) is the life expectancy at birth. For a 80yo US female, life expectancy from the same table is 9.38y. So the ones who are still alive at 80 still have some “gas in the tank”. My mom is up there in age and she needs a lot of assistance getting around etc, but it’s mostly physical issues.
She is in a “adult community” (i.e. apt. complex for old folks) and I spend a lot of time there seeing her. I see tons of over-80’s there. A few really do have serious dementia, but most are at other levels of independence with many rolling around in wheelchairs while still mentally present. Dementia care is a different thing and it’s not that common for someone who is “only” 81 to need it.
My mom at 81 was still mentally quite sharp. She’s slowed down since then but it’s mostly mobility and sleeping a lot. President Biden seems to have some dementia issues but again, they aren’t severe enough that he needs to be in a care home for it.
- It now sounds like Kay Granger is/was in a care home but at least according to the spin, it wasn’t specifically for dementia, so who knows.
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My dad died of dementia when he was 83. He was in a nursing home for a year before he died.
It was before COVID.
I’m sad to hear that. Yes it happens but it’s not really common from what I can tell. Currently theory about Alzheimer’s is that it is also caused by sustaining viral infections earlier in life.
Alzheimer’s is not the only form of dementia. My father did not have Alzheimer’s, he had frontotemperal dementia.
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/frontotemporal-dementia/symptoms-causes/syc-20354737
Risk increase for vascular dementia is 65.
We need a maximum age for politicians. At all levels. And term limits. At all levels.
And a god damn attendance record.
My kid’s school told me flat out that if a kid misses too many school days, they will be left behind.
So these “politicians” get paid and don’t even have to show up?
Weirder still the ones that do show up tend to cast votes of absentees with sticks they proudly carry around for just that age or somehow both accepted and legal.
Okay. Make it happen then.
Suuuuper helpful response.
at least they didn’t reelect her for 2025-26
Only because she decided not to run again lol
I’m not entirely sure that stopped Feinstein from being reelected.
She had competition in every election she was in, actually. I was curious.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_history_of_Dianne_Feinstein
Are you not running for office again congresswoman?
“Who are you?.. What office?”
You heard it here first folks, The congresswoman is still deciding if she will be running for office, back to you Terry.
