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.
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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.

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      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?

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        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.

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    this is why health reporting requirements should be made publicly available prior to election, imo

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    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.

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    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.

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    sounds like she’s clearly just getting in touch with the local population

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    How the fuck does a Senator go missing for SIXTH FUCKING MONTHS and no one bothers looking for them.

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      Her aids were probably running the show for years. What happens with these congress critters is that they create a support network around themselves to do the real work while they campaign for the next election. It gets to the point that the congress member themselves becomes superfluous. If it goes on long enough, they fall into dementia, but the aids don’t want to start over again with someone new, so they just tote their boss around from time to time like Weekend at Burnie’s. It happened with Dianne Feinstein. It’s probably happening with Mitch McConnell.

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          Also with Trump, Regan… the list goes on.

          Now that the election(and America) is over, I’m willing to openly agree with Biden being in mentally not there. Gerontocracy always lead to a decline in a nation.

          If it’s acceptable to have a minimum age to vote or hold office, it should also be acceptable to have a maximum age. Retired senior citizens shouldn’t get to decide matters such as worker’s rights or environmental issues.

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          Probably, but I haven’t heard much from him in a while. In my defense, if he has done something terrible recently, a lot of terrible things have been happening. It’s hard to keep track.

          Not that the election is over, I’m also willing to throw Biden on the pile. More then a few times in the past few years, he’s done things that remind of me of my old, conservative acquaintances. Biden pardoning the Kids for Cash asshole cemented that.

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      People from her office absolutely knew where she was, they just didn’t bother telling anybody else.

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      She is in Congress, not the Senate - so there’s a couple hundred more of them in general, and not all of them turn up to work every day… so it’s not hard to lose one for 6 months and not notice.

      Especially when they’re Republicans, since they do sweet fuck all most days anyway.

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      Asking people with power to give up that power willingly almost never works, unfortunately.

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          Great thinking!

          I’ll just check exactly who makes the rules, one second…

          Man, you won’t believe this, but the old hags that would have their careers end are the same ones in charge of systemic changes.

          Who would have thought.

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          But that’s the problem - they make the rules and they’re not going to make up rules to their own detriment.

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    To be fair, dementia is not much of a hindrance for making GOP policies.