Ulta shopper who got into feisty shouting match with GOP Rep. Nancy Mace makes stunning admission
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The man who got into a vicious argument with Nancy Mace has claimed the Congresswoman 'likes to play the victim card' is proud of himself for triggering what he calls Mace's 'meltdown.'
The 47-year-old pulled out her phone inside the Charleston store, recorded the man in the middle of the skin care aisle, and accused him of 'harassing' her after he asked if she was going to host any more town hall meetings this year.
The man - dressed in green shorts, a white button down, and white sneakers - also recorded Mace as he seemed very calm and polite in the beginning, but his tone quickly changed as they continued to interact.
He has now identified himself as Ely Murray-Quick, a small business owner from Charleston, who has started speaking to the press as Mace defends herself on social media and Fox News.
Initially, he told CNN Monday night, he was 'expecting a proper response, a response that you would expect of elected representatives from our state. Maybe even a schedule.'
But Murray-Quick told The Advocate he felt he was asking the questions that needed to be asked of Mace.
'I took the opportunity to ask her the question that a lot of her constituents wanted to know, I asked her when she was hosting a real [town hall],' he told The Advocate.
While Mace defended herself by pointing out she had held a town hall, Murray-Quick quickly decried it as fake.
'She fielded several questions over dinner, over the phone, and didn't give her constituents and the people in South Carolina an opportunity to ask … real questions,' he claimed.
He said that Mace then 'decided to tell me to f**k myself,' though he said that as a gay man in the south, 'I've had my fair share of hurtful insults thrown my way.'
'So a simple 'f**k you' from Nancy Mace isn't going to hurt me the way that she thinks it does.
'Nancy Mace likes to play the victim card, but that's not what happened here. I asked a simple question. As a resident of the state of South Carolina and she couldn't she couldn't answer it. She couldn't meet the demand of the people.'
Murray-Quick said that it took his opinion of the Congresswoman down a few notches to see how she reacted to his questions.
'I think it speaks a lot to her character that this is the type of language she decides to use to someone who is in the same space as her who asked her a simple question,' he said.
He also hit at Mace for claiming she used her record of having 'voted for gay marriage twice' as an excuse to avoid questions from him.
'There are bigger issues I want to vote on, and I want to see it resolved,' he added. 'Insurance, health care, the education system in South Carolina will consistently rank the lowest in the state … and she's not addressing the reason.'
Murray-Quick defended himself, claiming he stayed anywhere from six to ten feet away from Mace 'at all times' and made 'no physical confrontation.'
Mace, for her part, stood by her story on Monday when interviewed on Fox News by Sean Hannity.
'This guy approached me and I will tell you I felt threatened and harassed and as someone who's experienced trauma in her life and a lot of women will understand what I'm talking about, when some guy gets in your face and approaches you in an aggressive manner that he did and you feel like you are in danger, instinctively as women who have been through trauma and survived domestic abuse, you have two options,' she said.
Mace has been open and upfront while in Congress about her history of having been sexually assaulted.
'You can fight or flee and I'm a fighter. I've never stood back down from a fight,' she said.
Murray-Quick attempted to call out Mace for her past accusations against people who have called her out in public, including a trans activist she accused of assault who ultimately had charges dropped.
Their feisty interaction soon went viral, as the clip begins with him asking her when she's going to do a town hall.
'I do them every year,' Mace said of the town halls. 'Want to keep going?'
He then replied, 'I'm asking if you're going to have any more town halls this year!'
'Do you wanna keep going and keep harassing me? You could have gone to a dozen town halls last year...,' she told him in the video she posted to X on Saturday evening.
'I asked if you're doing any more this year. It was one simple question,' he quipped.
'Yeah, I've already done one, I'll do plenty more,' the Republican replied.
'You're always invited,' she added in a friendly tone - but that's when their interaction went completely off the rails.
While smiling and telling Mace he would look out for 'an actual invitation' to her townhall meeting, the GOP Rep. cut Murray-Quick off and said: 'And by the way, I voted for gay marriage twice.'
Murray-Quick, seemingly confused by her statement, looked around the store in shock before asking her: 'What does that have to do with me?'
'I'm just saying. It has everything to do with you,' Mace, dressed in blue skinny jeans, a denim top and heels, told him.
He inched a bit closer to her and said: 'You think everything about me has to do with gay marriage?'
'I do,' she replied as Murray-Quick questioned: 'That's your first stance when you speak with me? There's no other humane conversation you can have about me?'
'You wanna get in my face about town halls, you should've shown up to one last year,' Mace said as Murray-Quick stood feet away from her.
Appearing to ignore her previous statement to him, Murray-Quick continued: 'There is no other humane thing you can talk about me then say, 'Oh, I support gay marriage'?'
'Uh-huh, yeah, because you're getting in my face about a town hall you could have gone to last year. Would you like me -,' she said as the bearded man repeated the first question he asked her.
'All I did was ask you one simple question from right over here is if you have any plans to have more town halls. That was one question,' he stated.
'I have over a dozen every year,' Mace told him as he smiled and responded: 'Great! That was my entire question.'
'You didn't have to go into this spiel about everything else,' he added, as Mace, again, cut him off.
'You could have come to any of them last year. I had over a dozen,' she said.
He then clarified: 'And I'm asking you about this year, not 2024.'
'Where were you the year before that? Or the year before that?,' Mace said as the pair started to speak over each other.
While he was busy explaining the 'simple question' he initially asked her, Mace went on a tangent about people on the left being 'crazy.'
'Because you people on the left are crazy. You're absolutely f***ing crazy,' she told him.
'I'm absolutely f***ing crazy?,' Murray-Quick asked as he started chuckling and walking off.
'And get out of my face! Goodbye,' Mace said as the male shopper said: 'You're insane.'
'F*** you!,' the politician shouted at him as he came back and replied: 'F*** me? And you're gonna be voted out so fast this year. I can't wait for you to f***ing go into the dirt.'
'I'm not, I'm not! I won by so much,' she shouted at him.
'You're a disgrace to this state. That's what you are. You're a disgrace. I asked you a simple question and you just go on this tirade and tell me f*** you? Disgusting,' he told her.
'Yeah, f*** you! Get out of my face,' she responded as the pair went back and forth cursing at each other while an Ulta employee stared at them in confusion.
The worker then walked in the opposite direction as Mace asked him: 'What's your name?'
He then replied: 'You're a nasty b****, that's my name. You say f*** me? That's the first thing you're gonna say to me for asking you a question?'
'Absolutely, get the f*** out of my face... now,' Mace told him as the pair exchanged more curse words before the video ended.
Mace, clearly left enraged by the interaction she had with the unnamed man, called him a 'lunatic' in her caption.
'Some unhinged lunatic, a man, wearing daisy dukes, at a makeup store, got in my face today,' she wrote.
'Dems are nuts. So I went off - and I won't be backing down. I hold the line 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. Try me.'
She then posted under the video: 'I just wanted some face wash on my afternoon off lol.'
Mace was recently slammed for skipping a town hall held by the Lowcountry Accountability Alliance in the state in March.
In a post to X about her absence, Mace said: 'This is FAKE NEWS. This event is being driven by left-wing extremists and paid agitators with a clear agenda.
'I WILL NOT be attending. We're staying away because it's not safe, and we refuse to be bullied by individuals who are threatening me, my employees, and my family.'
She hosted her first town hall of the year on April 8 over the phone and only announced it was happening on X when it began.
Just a day before she held that event, she posted a video of herself talking about the 'deranged town hall fakers' who made 'BS calls' to her office about her bailing on the town hall last month.
'Do something nice for somebody in the Lowcountry. Stop being this way. Stop being violent with your words. Stop being ugly and hateful,' Mace added.
