Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) has been whining on social media for two days about unpaid airport security in Charleston, South Carolina, where she cursed at them for allegedly being late to meet her, notes NBC News:
The airport police had arranged for Mace, who is also a GOP candidate in the South Carolina governor’s race, to be escorted to her flight upon her arrival, but there was a mix-up about which vehicle she was arriving in, the report said. Officers then found Mace trying to use an entrance typically used for crew personnel at a TSA security check point.
Multiple officers who made statements for the report said Mace began cursing at them and calling the department “incompetent,” saying this is no way to treat a “f—ing U.S. representative.” Mace also said the police would have never treated South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott this way, according to the report.
After Mace was escorted to her gate and her plane took off, one of the officers said they spoke to the TSA supervisor, Johnny Lynch, who told the officer that Mace spoke the same way to several TSA agents who were upset with her behavior.
TSA agents are among the federal workers who are currently being forced to work without pay during the government shutdown.
The same officer said in their statement that “any other person in the airport acting and talking the way she did, our department would have been dispatch[ed] and we would have addressed the behavior.”
(Sources: Twitter/X, NBC News)