Nancy Mace

Nancy is a single mom and the first female graduate from The Citadel, an historically all-male and highly-respected Military College. Nancy was elected to Congress in 2020 and has spent her time in office working on improving Lowcountry infrastructure, supporting our nation’s veterans, and being a Republican voice for climate change and improving our environment. She also became the first Republican to introduce a comprehensive bill on marijuana.

If you tend to swoon over trendy real estate, there’s a good chance tiny homes have taken over your social media feeds. But when they’re not being done up for lavish photoshoots, these mini domiciles can serve a really important purpose. Nancy introduced the bipartisan Tiny Homes for Homeless Veterans Act which would create a pilot program to distribute grants so communities can build individualized and sustainable tiny homes in villages for homeless veterans. Let the tiny home revolution continue! For everyone.

Nancy was specifically focused on veterans this year. Nancy introduced legislation to direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to create an outreach program to educate veterans on cyber risks. Nancy also introduced the Veterans CARE Act, which also directs the VA Secretary to conduct research on the use of medical cannabis to treat veterans suffering from PTSD. In addition, she introduced the Military Sexual Trauma Retirement Pay Equity Act, which allows veterans who have been sexually assaulted to receive both their full retirement and disability compensation. She teamed up with PP leader Rep. Sara Jacobs to cosponsor the Ending Veterans Homelessness Act to make the Shallow Subsidy program permanent and more robust. In a final move for veterans and others, Nancy introduced a bill to federally legalize marijuana, which is the first Republican bill introduced on marijuana.

So the saying goes, and applies to Nancy this week. Following our quasi-profile/celebration of her last newsletter, indeed the realities of politics settled in this week, in the form of a new Democratic challenger for her seat. Tim Lewis, a former Marine who has worked with several Fortune 100 banking companies, is the current chairman of the Dorchester County Democratic Party. His reasons for running are simple: “She’s neither here nor there. She’s hot and cold,” Tim said. In other words, too inconsistent in her policy. Case in point, she voted no on infrastructure thus angering Democrats, but has been critical of Trump thus angering Republicans. She’s no doubt going to be battling it from all sides this mid-term.

Many politicians are calling on the U.S. Postal Service to crack down on illegal animal-fighting shipments. You heard that right. Investigations showed that thousands of fighting roosters are shipped annually throughout the U.S. and in the last four years over 10,000 birds have been shipped to Guam. Nancy led a letter to the United States Postal Inspection Service calling out these issues. Since 2002, the U.S. has prohibited any interstate or foreign transport of animals for fighting purposes. Felony-level penalties for those crimes were established by Congress in 2007, including a provision that specifically prohibits any person from using the US Postal Service to promote or further any animal fighting venture. Seems hard to miss a rooster in transit, but hopefully Nancy can move the needle for these cockadoodle-dudes.