A former staffer of South Carolina Rep. Nancy Mace (R) is urging the lawmaker to seek help after she accused her former employees of sabotaging her.
In an interview with the Daily Mail published Friday, Mace said her former staffers spied on her, mismanaged funds, sabotaged her and hack into her devices.
“This seems to be stemming from paranoia and trust issues,” a former staffer told the Daily Mail. “She’s clearly unwell and I hope she gets help.”
Mace told the Daily Mail that her former staffers signed her name on documents they weren’t suppose to, deleted files from her server, didn’t pay bills or file paperwork and mismanaged close to $1 million in her office budget.
She also said former staffers invaded her privacy by hacking into her devices to keep tabs on her.
“Literally, they could see where I was at all times,” Mace said. “They could see my kids’ calendars, my doctors’ appointments, my medical information. The stories I have from some of my former staff are horrific, and were a massive invasion of my privacy.”
Former staffers denied the allegations and said they didn’t hack Mace’s devices because she gave them access herself.
“Everything the staff had access to was granted by her.” one staffer said. “She had a personal calendar, a political calendar, and official calendar. All three of those calendars were managed and shared with senior staff so that we could go about the daily operations. No one hacked her accounts. She set them all up.”
The ex-staffer added that Mace “routinely would try to revoke access, be like ‘you can no longer see my calendar’ for a couple of weeks. And you know what, we couldn’t do our jobs.”
Earlier this year it was reported that Mace’s office has a 100% turnover rate, meaning every staffer who worked for her quit except her former chief of staff Dan Hanlon, who was fired.
Hanlon has since filed to run against Mace in the GOP primary in South Carolina’s first congressional district.
The former staffers called their old boss “delusional,” “abusive” and said the work environment was “toxic.”
