"She's a joke": Nancy Mace's ex-aides spill the beans after entire staff bails in just 3 months

"Nancy is delusional as a boss. She says nothing publicly without her consultants or senior staffers telling her to, but takes credit for everything.", former Mace aide, to Salon

Salon's Gabriella Ferrigine published one of the more detailed companion pieces to the February 5, 2024 mass staff-departure story, collecting quotes from ex-aides that went beyond the basic facts of the turnover and into the texture of what it was like to work for Mace day-to-day.

Former staffers described a culture of extreme availability demands:

"If she needed us, we had to answer within eight minutes"

That requirement, sources indicated, extended to holidays. The piece also included a striking allegation, attributed by Salon to a former aide, that Mace allegedly used official resources to manage internal conflict:

"At that moment, I felt the most unsafe I ever had on the Hill, when I realized she was using the Capitol Police to intimidate staff"

The Salon piece ran alongside The Daily Beast's original report and The New Republic's companion, creating a three-outlet sweep on the same day that made the staff-departure story unavoidable in political media. The level of on-the-record and attributed detail Salon obtained from ex-aides suggested former staffers had been waiting for an opportunity to speak.

Related coverage

• The Daily Beast: A Major Sign of Trouble in Nancy Mace's Office: Total Staff Turnover
• The New Republic: Nancy Mace Is So Toxic That Her Entire Staff Ditched Her