Rep. Kay Granger Found At Senior Living Facility After Missing Months Of Crucial Votes

LOADING ERROR LOADING After nearly five months without casting a vote, the case of absentee Rep. Kay Granger appears to have been solved. After attempts to contact Granger’s Washington and home district offices by phone, reporters paid a visit to the congresswoman’s Fort Worth headquarters, where they “found the door locked, front door glass window covered, no one inside, and no sign of the office continuing to be occupied.” Rep. Kay Granger arrives at a House Republicans caucus meeting in Washington on Oct. 13, 2023. JULIA NIKHINSON via Getty Images Employees at the office complex told The Dallas Express that Granger’s staff “had packed up and closed the office before Thanksgiving.” The vacant office space led reporters to pursue a tip claiming the congresswoman has been living at a memory care and assisted-living home for “some time.” During a visit to Fort Worth’s Tradition Senior Living, two employees told reporters she was living there. The residence’s assistant executive director, Taylor Manziel, subsequently confirmed Granger was in their care, telling The Dallas Express, “This is her home.” Following the release of the investigation, Granger’s family shed some light on the congresswoman’s extended absence from the House, telling The Dallas Morning News she has been “having some dementia issues late in the year.” Her son, Brandon Granger, disputed claims that his mother had been placed in the facility’s memory care unit, however, claiming she was residing in the independent living section of Tradition Senior Living. In a separate statement from Granger’s office, representatives told The Dallas Morning News her health issues had made travel to Washington “both difficult and unpredictable.” “As many of my family, friends, and colleagues have known, I have been navigating some unforeseen health challenges over the past year,” the statement said.