Kris Furniss

Kris C. Furniss is a Mount Pleasant, South Carolina resident who, according to his own written statement, became the subject of repeated outreach from Rep. Nancy Mace after she learned his ex-wife was dating Charleston entrepreneur Patrick Bryant. Furniss submitted a detailed written statement in June 2025, after Bryant's legal team asked him to document those contacts, describing a series of unsolicited communications in which he says Mace used him as a conduit to spread unverified allegations about Bryant and to interfere with Bryant's relationship with Furniss's children.

Connection to the Nancy Mace record

Mace's initial contact (late September / early October 2024). Furniss states that Nancy Mace first contacted him in late September or early October 2024, after he had submitted a web-form inquiry through her congressional website. A staffer arranged a 20-to-30-minute phone call in advance, and Mace called from an unknown number. During that call, according to Furniss, Mace told him she had discovered "thousands of images and videos" of naked women on Bryant's phone, some recorded without consent, and asserted that Bryant kept a prescription for the HIV drug Genvoya, framing these claims as evidence of illegal voyeurism and suggesting Bryant was a danger to women and children. She told Furniss she "wouldn't let her daughters come anywhere near him." Furniss states Mace admitted that no law-enforcement action had been taken.

The May 9, 2025 text message. On May 9, 2025, Furniss texted Mace for an update on the matter. Mace responded in a private text at approximately 10:49 a.m.: "I don't know what will happen in the future. He is being investigated for potential wrongdoing and crimes committed against me and other women. I stand by every word in my floor speech February 10th. Happy to send over a transcript. I would never allow my children or any other child or woman or girl around him. Period. End of story." This text message, sent outside any official congressional proceeding, became one of the grounds on which Musgrave's counsel argued that Mace's communications about Bryant were personal rather than official.

How it entered the public record. Furniss's written statement was executed in June 2025 (his clarifying-questions response is dated June 13, 2025) after correspondence between Furniss and Bryant's legal team. The May 9, 2025 text message from Mace to Furniss was submitted as Exhibit X in the briefing opposing the Westfall Act certification in Musgrave v. Mace (D.S.C., No. 2:25-cv-01823-RMG), where it is identified as "Section 13, Kris Furniss Text Messages (May 2025)." Musgrave's counsel cited the text as evidence that Mace's private republication of allegations about Bryant, sent outside any congressional duty, was driven by personal animus and therefore outside the scope of her federal employment. The Furniss statement and the text message are also referenced in publicly filed Bryant motion papers in the Berg v. Bryant federal removal (No. 2:26-cv-00305-BHH-MHC, D.S.C.).

The statements above are Furniss's own attributed account, and the text quoted is drawn from the documentary exhibit submitted in the litigation. Rep. Mace has denied wrongdoing and has maintained that her conduct was undertaken in her official capacity as a Member of Congress; the scope-of-employment question is contested and, as of this entry, unadjudicated. No court has made any finding of fact based on these materials, and the related litigation remains pending.

Sources

• Public court record: Written statement of Kris C. Furniss (June 2025) and text message from Rep. Mace to Furniss (May 9, 2025, Exhibit X), submitted in the Westfall Act / Speech-or-Debate certification briefing in Musgrave v. Mace (D.S.C., No. 2:25-cv-01823-RMG).
• Mace Federal Removal (Berg v. Bryant → D.S.C.), federal docket No. 2:26-cv-00305-BHH-MHC, available on PACER (pacer.uscourts.gov).
• Litigation Overview
• Brian Musgrave

See also

• People in the Public Record
• Patrick Bryant
• Vicki Pittman
• Litigation Overview