Yet another of those occasions when we must embrace the healing power of “and,” I’m afraid.
US Congresswoman Missing For Six Months Found At Dementia Care Home
Local paper Dallas Express recently launched an investigation into the whereabouts of Republican Congresswoman Kay Granger, who has represented Texas’s 12th Congressional District since 1997. The investigation followed reports that she had been absent from office for months.Dallas Express found out from a local resident that Granger was not missing but instead residing at an assisted living facility specializing in memory care.
Here’s more from the reporting:
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. However, we were not permitted to conduct an interview regarding the current spending debate in the House of Representatives and how or if Ms. Granger planned to vote.
Taylor Manziel who is the Assistant Executive Director for the senior living facility acknowledged to The Dallas Express that “This is her home.”
It remains unclear why Granger’s staff declined to disclose her condition to the public, especially given the lack of representation during a crucial voting period in Congress.
And, of course, the term limits conversation on X reignited…
As well it might’ve, and should. Yes, yes, I am aware of the shopworn argument against term limits: we don’t need ‘em, they’re already baked into the cake, all’s we have to do is vote the bastards out. Sorry, but as with so many other failed Constitutionally-set “protections,” those built-in “term limits” no longer work as intended. ZH includes a video that hits all too close to home.
This art installation depicts world leaders as they have aged, yet I feel this is our current government. Old, feeble, unable to move, and possibly brain dead. pic.twitter.com/afdrkJgy1T
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay)
Hey, I may not know art, but I know what I like. Another telling aspect: this Congresscritter fell off the map completely for six fucking months…and not a soul noticed, in goobermint or out.
Two terms and OUT, sayeth I—if not voluntary, then by force of law, since they refuse to go voluntarily into that good night.
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I’ve been for term limits forever. Only Ten years in a government job of any kind*, elected, hired, or appointed. Ten years and no more. For the house a two term limit, Senate one term and out.
Only the presidency would be excepted. It remains as is and doesn’t count against the ten year limit.
NO permanent political class. NO permanent government bureaucracy.
*Edit – excepting the military entirely, forgot to mention that earlier
Her entire congressional staff should be federally prosecuted for employment fraud.
Two terms and OUT FOR GOOD, no more of that bounce between house and senate BS or take a term off. And get rid of fucking lobbyist
90% tax on income over $300,000 and capital gains for every member of Congress, the Executive Branch, and the Federal judiciary, all of their aides and campaign contributors, and immediate families. That should cut short their time in office.
“It must not be forgotten that the members of the legislative body are to have a deep stake in the game. This is an essential point, and happily is attended with no difficulty. A sufficient number, properly disposed, can alternately legislate and speculate, and speculate and legislate, and buy and sell, and sell and buy, until a due portion of the property of their constituents has passed into their hands to give them an interest against their constituents, and to ensure the part they are to act. All this, however, must be carried on under the cover of the closest secrecy; and it is particularly lucky that dealings in paper admit of more secrecy that any other. Should a discovery take place, the whole plan may be blown up.” https://streamfortyseven.substack.com/p/rules-for-changing-a-limited-republican