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Home Front: Politix
Oldest House member Eleanor Holmes Norton, 88, scammed out of $4,000, has ‘early signs of dementia' ‐ and is still running for re-election
2025-10-25
[NY Post] Just quit, already
Eleanor Holmes Norton, a non-voting delegate representing the District of Columbia, has the “early stages of dementia,” according to a police report detailing how scammers took advantage of the oldest member of the House of Representatives.
Non-voting and Washington, DC. She could do nothing before, and now she can do nothing without realizing it.
Norton, 88, was duped by multiple suspects Thursday who went to her Washington, DC, home claiming to be HVAC workers, according to an internal police report obtained by NBC News4.

The swindlers charged $4,362 to the Democratic congresswoman’s credit card without performing any work.

Norton’s “caretaker/power of attorney was not at residence” at the time the group showed up, which was just after 3:30 p.m., the report states, noting that it was Norton’s “caretaker” who called DC police after noticing the unscheduled arrival at the congresswoman’s home.

Norton’s apparent cognitive impairment was described in the section of the police report detailing victim information.

“Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (DC) 88 years old, Black Woman, suffers early stages of dementia,” the report states.

Norton, who has served as a member of the House since 1991, has shown signs of mental decline and has struggled to do her job on Capitol Hill in recent years, friends and colleagues told the New York Times earlier this year.

The congresswoman is described as being “unable to function independently,” leaning on aides, close friends and family members for help, the outlet reported, noting that she rarely attends House Oversight Committee meetings and appears at times not to recognize people she has known for years.
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