Joe.My.God. LGBT News
Wired reports:
Nancy Mace, the South Carolina Republican congresswoman, often tells her staff that she’s a self-taught coder—just one aspect of how Mace presents her tech expertise, as befits her role in shaping the GOP’s policies on technology and work as chair of the House subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Information Technology, and Government Innovation.
“I would say [it was] at least a weekly comment, if not daily,” says one of several former Mace staffers who spoke with WIRED. Another found her high regard for her skills somewhat at odds with her demonstrated ability.
A principal—and unusual—use to which Mace put her skills, according to former staffers, was setting up burner accounts on a variety of social media platforms to monitor what people were saying about her and bolster her image. They also claim she requested that staffers make their own burner accounts to defend her online.
Read the full article. Last week it was alleged that Mace plotted to blackmail her former fiance into giving her ownership of two homes.
Scoop: Nancy Mace’s fmr staff tell me they were assigned to create burner accounts to bolster their boss online.
“We were congressional staff, and there were actual things we could be doing to help the constituents,” one said. 1/https://t.co/RT96k6BeNO pic.twitter.com/rvZYXk2StU
— Jake Lahut (@JakeLahut) May 28, 2025
Some of this reporting comes from a recent deposition in South Carolina civil court (2/) https://t.co/RT96k6BeNO pic.twitter.com/3KvU7vBj0k
— Jake Lahut (@JakeLahut) May 28, 2025
On the lengths to which Mace will go in her combined enthusiasm for technology (+ shaping the GOP’s policy therein), her understanding of the attention economy, and her branding as a self-taught coder.
“I never saw her coding shit. Ever.”
(3/3)https://t.co/RT96k6BeNO pic.twitter.com/5B3c4MVIbt— Jake Lahut (@JakeLahut) May 28, 2025