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The important part is that she’s still officially a member of Congress. People voted for her to represent their interests. If she’s no longer able to fulfill that duty she should have stepped down and let someone else do it. As it stands she and her staff are still collecting salaries paid by the American people. It’s also if interest because of the general tend of geritocracy - our elected officials are really old, and it calls into question the decisions they’re making and their ability to lead.
She is still a member of the Texas state legislature but is incapable of performing her duties. Instead of stepping down and being replaced, she stopped showing up for votes, stopped answering her phone messages, closed her offices, and checked into a memory care unit where she is unable, or unwilling, to speak to the press or apparently anyone else.
In what world is this “relatively normal”?
She is a member of the US House of Representatives, not Texas State Legislature.
I misread that. Thanks for pointing it out. That, if anything, makes it even worse.
I wasn’t really a fan of term limits before but now I am because these people cannot be trusted to retire before their brains turn to mush.
I mean, she probably forgot. Hence being in the memory care unit.
She announced she was not seeking re election last year and her replacement has already been elected. She was basically a lame duck.
Lame duck representatives still have the power and duty to vote on legislation!
Sure, but even if she had formally resigned, Texas would not have replaced her. TFA says her offices are abandoned, so likely no staff getting paid. She, herself may or may not be getting paid, but as near as I can tell, a congress person drawing 5 months of salary while being hospitalized out of DC is a pretty low level shitty-politician behavior. Besides, she’ll be collecting probably 80% of that salary as pension, anyway.