Reporters with the Dallas Express – which has been described by trustworthy lefty hellraiser Texas journo Steve Monacelli as “right-wing propaganda under the guise of being non-partisan and objective” – nevertheless have broken open a pretty freaking major story: Republican Texas Congresswoman Kay Granger, who up until last term chaired the House Appropriations Committee, has allegedly been living in a dementia/memory care facility since being found wandering the streets of her Dallas-area neighborhood at some point after the last time she cast a vote on July 24th.

Granger, who announced her retirement back in October 2023 and will be replaced by freshman Congressman-Elect Craig Goldman, had not been heard from at all and yet still her staff (and presumably House Republican leadership, who had to know what was happening) made no formal announcement that she was incapacitated. Nobody answered the phone at either her DC or her district offices. Kind of too late now to make a scandal out of it since the 118th Congress is finished as is the damage to the GOP’s majority caused by the 81 year-old’s stealth early retirement.

Bo French, chairman of the far-right extremist Tarrant County GOP, was pretty pissed, telling the Express that “the lack of representation for CD-12 is troubling to say the least. At a time when extraordinarily important votes are happening, including debt ceiling, disaster relief, farm bills and border issues, Kay Granger is nowhere to be found. The margin in Congress is razor thin and the lack of a Republican vote representing CD-12 disenfranchises 2 million people. We deserve better.”

Worth asking how this asshole didn’t notice Granger was AWOL and look into it himself. Maybe the Republican voters in Tarrant County deserve better than Bo French leading their local party.