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Extremely anti-trans (and very public about it) SC Congresswoman Nancy Mace is the subject of what many are calling an explosive expose in a
New York Magazine profile. And it's not pretty.
By focusing on her recent questionable behavior (such as
causing a huge scene at a Charleston airport last year and then
accusing SC Attorney General Alan Wilson of plotting against her) and interviews with former staff members, it paints the picture of an erratic and unbalanced lawmaker.
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Ex-Staffers Are Worried About Her
The publication cites several former staffers, including a former top consultant to her gubernatorial campaign, who described her behavior as erratic and accused her of being abusive. Mace’s office fiercely denied the claims made in the piece and trashed its author in a statement to NYMag.
The picture painted by the former employees detailed some of their concerns with Mace, who was first elected as a representative in 2021. Supporters of the congresswoman argue that Mace instead is a victim of ex-staffers’ axe grinding.
“We were scared of her,” one former staffer told NYMag. “She would make staffers cry. She would threaten to fire them, take their money away, not give them raises, not to give them days off, religious days.”
Another former staffer detailed how early in her career Mace would push for appearances on national and local TV to help her brand. Her staffers thought she had potential, even if her behavior had them questioning her actions.
“Something’s broken. The motherboard’s fried. We’re short-circuiting somewhere,” a staffer told the magazine.
Former staffers said Mace treated them like maids after she arrived in Congress in January 2021, ordering them to clean the multiple properties she was renting out on Airbnb, including her Washington townhouse. Ahead of election night in 2022, Mace instructed her staffers to spiff up her $3.9 million home in Isle of Palms, South Carolina, for a watch party, a former staffer with direct knowledge told New York magazine.
Mace also started dispatching staffers on late-night runs for alcohol to keep parties going at her home. “Look, when I worked for her, our poor scheduler was getting calls at two o’clock in the morning to come bring her bottles of tequila,” one former staffer told New York magazine.
. . . One staffer alleged Mace’s excessive drinking and marijuana use became an issue. They recalled an incident in 2022 when Mace wanted to fire an aide for “doxxing” her because the aide told reporters she was out of the country, even though Mace had already announced her trip to a group of supporters just days before.
“She would definitely do it excessively,” the staffer said of the congresswoman’s drinking and marijuana usage. “And again, not to say that most members don’t or most staff don’t, but it got to the point where it was an issue.”
Mace infamously
transformed herself from an LGBTQ ally to one of its loudest and meanspirited opposers in Congress, often
publicly slurring trans women during hearings. She blames transgender Americans for supposedly changing her mind, particularly the election of the first trans woman to Congress, Sarah McBride. In doing so, Mace also utilizes ugly and untrue tropes about transgender women in bathrooms and locker rooms to justify her change.
A lot of folks have claimed that she was being opportunistic. Perhaps there is more to the story.
Just saying.
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