South Carolina firebrand running for governor allegedly abused agents working without pay during shutdown

The US representative Nancy Mace, a Republican firebrand running for South Carolina governor, is drawing scrutiny after a police report described her berating airport police and TSA agents as she was being escorted to a gate last week.

The profane incident at the Charleston international airport threatens to derail her run as she said she would sue the airport authority for defamation and false reporting.

An initial incident report from the Charleston county aviation authority police department first obtained by Wired describes Mace cursing at airport staff, saying that this was no way to treat a “f—ing U.S. representative”. She invoked the name of South Carolina senator Tim Scott, saying that the Republican lawmaker would not be treated as she was, according to the report.

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    7 hours ago

    While having a buffer of some sort is good practice and certainly a recommended one, pricing and inflation have gone through the roof lately. I don’t know how that may affect one’s financial planning/preparation, esp in a case like this where there is not necessarily an end in sight.

    I would be interested to see how many folks here have something like that and how long it’s able to sustain them. Will it be recovered in the aftermath? Trump does have an allergy to debt-paying…