WFB: Nancy Mace Pledges To Push Back Against Socialism, Put America First.
Nancy Mace, the first woman to graduate from The Citadel, South Carolina’s military college, announced her candidacy for South Carolina’s First Congressional District, a prominent target for national Republicans in 2020.
She will run as a Republican, and aims to face off against incumbent Joe Cunningham, a centrist Democrat who flipped the seat for the first time in decades in 2018.
Mace became the first woman to graduate from The Citadel’s Corps of Cadets in 1999.
Mace’s announcement video pledges that she will be an ally for President Trump and emphasized that her candidacy is a rejection of socialism.
“I want to stop rebuilding the world and start rebuilding America,” she says in the announcement video. “I want to get government off our backs and protect our constitutional rights. And I want to build the wall because supporting America first means securing America first.” more here
I hope she doesn’t get hurt in a traffic accident too!
A slim sliver of hope for our future.
How well did she do at The Citadel? Did she graduate through rigorous work? Or were the standards lowered and she graduated through “affirmative action” as the first female graduate?
And what has she been doing since to prove her “bona fides” as a conservative Republican?
Pardon my cynicism, but we’ve been lied to for too long to take anything any candidate says at face value.
Bio
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Mace
Citadel is a tough place to graduate from. It’s a “trade school” in military slang, one of the few non-Gummint colleges that directly commission their cadets into military service. VMI and Norwich are two more and I’m certain I missed a couple more.
Hey Toxic,
Not sure how well she did in school. Do remember that she graduated. I also recall something of a media rush surrounding it at the time, though not nearly as bad as the circus that hit VMI around the same time. Was in middle of my two years in ROTC. It stood out for me because, back while I was still enlisted, I had seriously considered The Citadel, along with both VMI and Norwich. Ended up at old man’s alma mater, TX A&M.
Not sure whether her father being both an Alum and the current Commandant of Cadets helped or hindered her. She appears to have gone on and done fairly well.
Mansfield,
There are about a dozen or so, but, outside military circles, the Citadel and VMI are probably the better known.
https://www.todaysmilitary.com/education-training/military-schools
TWD