Nancy Mace to announce primary challenge against Lindsey Graham

dailycaller.com ^ | 8/1/13 | W. James Antle III

[cotton1706]

The first woman to graduate from the Citadel is planning to challenge South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham in the Republican primary next year.

Charleston businesswoman Nancy Mace will head to Goose Creek Saturday to announce her Senate campaign, The Daily Caller News Foundation has learned.

“This isn’t about one senator,” Mace told TheDCNF. “The only way to change Washington is to change who we send to Washington.”

“Washington is out of touch,” she added. “Voters are frustrated. They’re looking for someone authentic.”

In a June fundraising email, the Senate Conservatives Fund listed Graham as one of three Republican senators the group would support a primary campaign against if “strong, conservative challengers emerge.”

Mace, who has written articles for The Daily Caller, is a Fort Bragg native who graduated from South Carolina’s military college in 1999, becoming the first woman graduate since the Citadel was founded in 1842. She later wrote a memoir of her experience at the school and runs a public relations firm in Charleston.

Last year, Club for Growth president Chris Chocola told a Christian Science Monitor event that Graham was a potential target.

“If you’re looking to the horizon of 2014,” Chocola said, “the sun may rise over South Carolina.”

South Carolina Republican state Sen. Tom Davis predicted to TheDCNF last year that “someone will challenge Lindsey Graham.”

After Graham spoke out in support of the National Security Agency’s data collection practices under the Obama administration, Mace wrote a scathing post at the conservative blog RedState chastising the senator.

“In Senator Graham’s world, the Constitution doesn’t exist,” she wrote. “In Senator Graham’s world, the entire Bill of Rights is negotiable.”

[cotton1706]

I just sent money too!

[cotton1706]

The site’s up. I just donated.

http://nancymace.net/

[pogo101]

Technically I think that’s a flail, but heck with it, it works in a headline after primary day: “MACE FLAILS GRAHAM.”

[Travis McGee]

It’s a mace in my book; a flail is something to beat wheat kernels into grain and chaff, I thought.

[itsahoot]

I'm still hoping Trey Gowdy might step up.

Trey is an Amnesty sell out, be careful what you wish for.

[Alamo-Girl]

Buuuump!

[Robe]

She didn't "BUST the Citadel"
Shannon Faulkner did.
Don't spread false information.
Get the facts first

[SharpRightTurn]

“Now if we can only get primary challengers for Collins and Cornyn”

And Alexander.

[Resettozero]

All the complaints are coming from outta-State posters on FR.

[Resettozero]

I don’t think much of the woman that busted the Citadel running as a Conservative. Is that the best they can do?

Outta-State snarker!

[Viennacon]

Thanks for the heads up! Lets smash the RINO!

[Resettozero]

If someone told me John McCain set Nancy up to run to save his little buddy I probably wouldn’t be shocked.

Thanks for your political insight regarding S.C. conservatives' politics, Wisconsin. The outta-State support we get on FR continues to amaze.

[Resettozero]

First Bevin, now Mace. The battle has begun!!! now we'll have two conservatives battling Graham... bad news...they'll split the conservative vote...

Where are you getting all your erroneous information?

[Resettozero]

Yes, conservatives must work together and put up the best of the three. No other way to oust Graham.

Thanks, Tennessee, for the insight and advice. None of us here had ever thought of that on our own.

[Resettozero]

Trey (Gowdy) is an Amnesty sell out, be careful what you wish for.

Bald-faced lie that is being repeated here on FR by posters like you.

[tillacum]

Isn’t that what Mace will do to Graham?

[Jane Long]

What is Gowdy's position on immigration?

Does he support Blue Slipping the Senate Bill?

Does Gowdy at least want to secure the border first, before ANY additional legislation is offered up? Does he support amnesty to "dreamers" or ANY path to citizenship?

Just curious. Thanks.

[bmwcyle]

Where can I send money?

[Resettozero]

What is Gowdy's position on immigration?

REPRINTED FROM REP. TREY GOWDY'S WEBSITE:

Gowdy Immigration Bill Passes House Judiciary Committee
June 18, 2013
WASHINGTON -
Today the House Judiciary Committee approved the Strengthen and Fortify Enforcement Act, the SAFE Act, introduced by Immigration Subcommittee Chair Trey Gowdy (R-SC). The SAFE Act improves interior enforcement of our nation's immigration laws. Congressman Gowdy released this statement after the Committee voted 20-15 to approve the SAFE Act:

"Ensuring public safety and protecting national security must be the primary objective of immigration reform. Our history of selective enforcement of immigration laws has made our nation vulnerable, threating the wellbeing of every citizen."

"The SAFE Act represents a common sense approach to the enforcement of our nation’s laws. Utilizing the law enforcement infrastructure existing in every state and community across this country to support enforcement efforts increases accountability and effectiveness, while using resources wisely.

"America is a nation of laws and a democracy comprised of a people who have a deep and abiding respect for the rule of law. The open process is long and tedious but absolutely necessary for all perspectives to be heard. The passage of the SAFE Act by the House Judiciary Committee is the first step in a larger reform process."

Key Components of the SAFE Act:
· Grants States and Localities the Authority to Enforce Immigration Laws: The bill grants states and localities specific congressional authorization to assist in the enforcement of federal immigration law and includes provisions to facilitate their assistance. It also allows states and localities to enact and enforce their own immigration laws as long as they are consistent with federal law. In addition, the bill withholds specific grants from sanctuary cities that defy federal immigration enforcement efforts.

· Strengthens National Security: The bill makes it more difficult for foreign terrorists and other foreign nationals who pose national security concerns to enter and remain in the United States. Of note, the bill bars foreign terrorists or removable immigrants who threaten national security from receiving immigration benefits, such as naturalization and discretionary relief from removal, among other things. The bill also requires that no immigration benefits can be provided to immigrants until all required background and security checks are completed.

· Protects American Communities from Dangerous Criminal Aliens: The bill protects the American public by facilitating and expediting the removal of criminal aliens. In the instance a dangerous criminal immigrant cannot be removed from the U.S., the bill allows the Department of Homeland Security to detain them.

· Improves Visa Security: The bill improves our nation’s first line of defense, the visa issuance process. The bill expands the Visa Security Program to additional high risk posts, strengthens the integrity of the student visa program, and authorizes the Department of Homeland Security and State Department to revoke visas to foreign nationals if in the security or foreign policy interests of the U.S., among other provisions.

· Helps ICE Officers Better Do Their Jobs: The bill assists U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers in carrying out their jobs of enforcing federal immigration laws by allowing them to make arrests for immigration violations, federal felonies, federal criminal offenses for bringing in and harboring unlawful immigrants, and offenses against the U.S. The bill also allows them to carry firearms and provides them body armor.

· Strengthens Border Security: The bill prohibits the Departments of Interior and Agriculture from preventing Border Patrol agents access to federal lands within 100 miles of the border. This will better enable Border Patrol agents to secure our border and prevent illegal activity, such as illegal immigration, smuggling, and drug trafficking. It also prohibits the interference of Border Patrol activities, such as construction and maintenance of roads and barriers, use of patrol vehicles, and deployment of tactical infrastructure.

· Reviews Administration’s Abuse of Prosecutorial Discretion: The bill requires a report to Congress each year on the abuse of prosecutorial discretion by the Administration.

REPRINTED FROM REP. TREY GOWDY'S WEBSITE

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

First Bevin, now Mace. The battle has begun!!!

Yes! The Tea Party is alive and well.

The Tea Party learned that street demonstrations aren't very effective. We simply changed tactics.

We don't show our hand anymore, so the RINOs won't see us coming, until it's too late.