Nancy Mace Is Not Okay
A sweeping multi-source profile based on interviews with multiple former staffers alleging Mace made aides run late-night liquor runs, clean her Airbnb rentals, upvote Reddit posts ranking her among the 'hottest women in Congress,' and operate burner social-media accounts on her behalf. Staffers described erratic, emotionally volatile behavior. Mace denied all allegations, calling it a 'hit piece.'
"Our poor scheduler was getting calls at two o'clock in the morning to come bring her bottles of tequila.", former Mace staffer, as quoted in corroborating coverage
New York Magazine's Intelligencer published what became a widely cited multi-source profile describing what it characterized as dysfunction inside Mace's congressional operation. Drawing on interviews with multiple former staffers, the piece alleged that aides were dispatched on late-night liquor runs, required to clean Mace's Airbnb rentals, directed to upvote Reddit posts ranking her among the "hottest women in Congress," and tasked with running burner social-media accounts on her behalf.
The portrait that emerged from the reporting was of a congresswoman who treated her official staff as personal assistants and demanded a level of personal devotion that drove experienced Hill staff to resign. One former staffer told reporters:
"She's not okay. There's nothing here I can point to and say, 'Oh, this is normal.'"
Mace denied the allegations and called the piece a "hit piece." Her office did not provide a detailed rebuttal to individual claims.
The story landed the same week as a cluster of amplifying coverage, ABC News 4 reported on the investigation, and The New Republic published a companion writeup. Together they cemented what critics described as a pattern of erratic office management that paralleled the mass staff-turnover story that had already broken two years earlier.
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