Mace at Press Club dinner: 'Since Marjorie Taylor Greene started behaving, the rate of Jewish space laser attacks is now zero'

On February 8, 2023, Mace delivered a joke at the Washington Press Club Foundation dinner openly lampooning Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's 2018 conspiracy theory that California wildfires were started by a 'Jewish space laser.'

February 8, 2023

At the Washington Press Club Foundation's 77th Annual Congressional Dinner on February 8, 2023, Mace delivered this line to the bipartisan crowd:

"Recently, there's been a lot of talk about antisemitism. But since Marjorie Taylor Greene started behaving, the rate of Jewish space laser attacks is now zero."

The joke mocked Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's 2018 Facebook posts suggesting California wildfires were started by a "Jewish space laser" and was seen as a rare moment in which a Republican colleague openly lampooned Greene's antisemitic conspiracy theories.

Source: Axios · archived

Mace votes against Santos expulsion: 'George Santos is an a--, who, like every other American, deserves the presumption of innocence'

On December 1, 2023, Mace voted against expelling Rep. George Santos despite having called his entire résumé 'manufactured' eleven months earlier, arguing the expulsion vote was about shifting congressional power rather than accountability.

October 11, 2023 · Dispatch

Mace refuses to back Scalise for Speaker: 'I cannot, in good conscience, vote for someone who attended a white supremacist conference'

On October 11, 2023, Mace said on CNN she could not vote for Steve Scalise as House Speaker because he had spoken at an event associated with David Duke's white nationalist organization in 2002; Scalise ultimately withdrew his candidacy.

October 11, 2023 · Dispatch

Mace wears scarlet-letter shirt: 'I will do the right thing every single time'

On October 11, 2023, one week after voting to oust Speaker Kevin McCarthy, Mace wore a red 'A' T-shirt to Congress and described feeling demonized as a woman for her vote.

October 5, 2023 · Dispatch

Mace tells CNN 'I have not been fundraising off of this', contradicted by her own timeline

On October 5, 2023, Mace denied fundraising immediately after McCarthy's ouster on CNN, but reporters had been tipped about a fundraising appeal she sent within one hour of the vote, the same behavior she had condemned in Matt Gaetz nine months earlier.

October 3, 2023 · Dispatch

Mace explains McCarthy ouster vote: 'This isn't about left vs right. This is about trust and keeping your word.'

On October 3, 2023, Mace was one of eight Republicans to vote to remove Kevin McCarthy as House Speaker, citing his failure to keep his word on women's issues legislation and a balanced-budget amendment.