A Republican Congressman Disappeared for Months and Nobody in Washington Seems to Care.
For nearly four months, a sitting member of Congress — representing one of the most competitive battleground districts in the country, in the middle of an illegal war and an economic gut-punch — simply vanished. No explanation. No public schedule. No votes. Tom Kean, New Jersey’s 7th District, last cast a vote on March 5th. He missed well over 140 votes after that. And almost nobody in Washington or the corporate press seemed to give a damn.
Now he’s back. And the explanation is that his doctors recommended hospitalization for depression.
Let me be very clear about something before I say anything else: depression is real. I’ve lived it. It took real work to climb out of that hole, and I know exactly how it wrecks you — mentally, physically, all of it. I’m genuinely glad Kean got care. I mean that. Nobody should be shamed for getting treatment for a mental illness, and the more public officials who are honest about that struggle, the better — it opens the door for other people to get help too.
But here’s the thing. Kean isn’t just some guy. He’s a member of Congress. And that comes with a different standard.
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