Nancy Mace Applauds SC Congressional Leaders Putting Parris Island First

October 9, 2020 (Charleston, S.C.)  — Today, U.S. Representatives Joe Wilson and Ralph Norman (R-SC) introduced the Parris Island Protection Act in the House of Representatives. This bill will provide overdue protections for our crowned jewel, the Parris Island USMC training base in Beaufort County, by ensuring that federal funds cannot be used to close Parris Island.
Congressman Joe Cunningham (D-SC) and National Democrats played politics with the NDAA and they got caught. Now, members of the SC delegation are stepping up to provide our military the assistance and resources they need. The military provided National Democrats with clarity on exactly what was needed to meet their mandates but Congress Joe Cunningham and his party ignored it which could cost Beaufort County 6,000 jobs and $800 million in economic activity in the region.
Nancy Mace issued the following statement:

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About Nancy Mace:  State Representative Nancy Mace grew up in Goose Creek, S.C. and eventually graduated from Stratford High School, but not before working at the Waffle House on College Park Road in Ladson. She graduated magna cum laude from The Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina, where she was the school’s first female to graduate from its Corps of Cadets in 1999. She later earned a masters degree in Mass Communication from The University of Georgia. She is the author of In The Company of Men: A Woman at The Citadel (Simon & Schuster, 2001). Her business experience stems from corporate technology consulting to starting her own company as well as commercial real estate. Mace also served as a Coalitions Director and Field Director for Donald J. Trump for President, Inc.; she worked in seven different states during the 2016 presidential primaries and played a pivotal role in the Lowcountry’s First Congressional District during the South Carolina primary. She is the mom of two children aged 11 and 13.