John Matthews
WMAL.com
HAGERSTOWN, MD (WMAL) After spending more than three weeks camped out at the Hagerstown Speedway, the remaining drivers of the Peoples’ Convoy are going back where they came from.
Co-organizer Mike Landis told the crowd in a Sunday night meeting that there is pending legislation in the California legislature that would further restrict citizens’ rights to make their own choices about health decisions, and that he believed it was more pressing than the group’s stated mission to end the existing federal state of emergency on COVID. “That’s already in place,” Landis told the drivers, “and we need to stop stuff like these bills from getting in place, otherwise the rest of us who don’t live in California are going to end up being subjected to the same situation.”
Landis told the crowd that the convoy would head Monday morning to a health freedom rally being held in Harrisburg, and he then proposed returning to Hagerstown to pack up and head west.
“We’re not done here, but we’ll go to California to raise awareness on this along the way, and hopefully gain more people like we did on our way here,” Landis told the crowd. “And then, once we stop this [legislation in California], we’ll come back to finish this job.”
Landis asked the crowd if anyone had any objections to that plan, and he heard only cheers, before declaring the decision to leave to be settled. He did not say when the group might return to the D.C. area.
The end of the D.C. portion of the convoy comes after the group’s other leader, Brian Brase, told the drivers earlier Sunday that he was leaving the convoy temporarily, but promised he would be back. Convoy organizers were also days away from losing their camp site at the Hagerstown Speedway, as racing season at the track is about to get underway.
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