NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) -- A day after U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) said repeated security lapses at the Charleston International Airport were to blame for an alleged confrontation with security officers last week, another South Carolina politician who regularly uses the airport is defending his experience with airport staff.

"I have used that airport since long before I was ever in Congress, and every interaction I have had - without exception - has been positive," U.S. Sen. Tim Scott (R) wrote in a Nov. 4 post on Facebook. "The men and women of the airport police are professional, courteous, and go beyond the call of duty."

Scott's comments come after Mace accused the airport's internal law enforcement agency, the Charleston Regional Aviation Authority, of failing to provide her

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