The People’s Convoy’s time has come and gone, at least at Hagerstown Speedway because they were given the boot from the facility Friday, according to The Herald-Mail.
The Speedway’s General Manager, Lisa Plessinger, said she asked the 100 or so people that remain in the convoy to leave the facility just two days after they returned because she tired of the infighting in the group as it tried to decide what it might do next.
“I’m not a babysitter,” she told the newspaper. “I didn’t sign up for that. So when they got to acting like a bunch of kids it was time for them to go home.
“Just like with any unruly child, you only put up with so many temper tantrums before you say, ‘Enough. Put them in time out.’ So that’s what I did.”
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The People’s Convoy was the group that was, and maybe still is, protesting the government’s COVID-19 mandates among other things.
According to the Herald-Mail, the convoy first called the speedway home on March 3, and the area became a “staging area” as the group planned it’s “parade of big rigs, cars and campers to protest in the Washington, D.C. area.”
When Plessinger needed the entire facility for the racing operations, the convoy trekked out to California with the promise that they would be back. And it did come back on Wednesday, with a reportedly much smaller group, for all of two days before being ejected.
Plessinger told the Herald-Mail the problems began when the convoy began to disband and faced a leadership crisis.
“I want one convoy, one leader, one person that I have to deal with,” she said. “I don’t want to deal with a dozen. I don’t have time for that.”
She said the group’s stay was initially supposed to be a short one.
“Initially they were just to be there one day, one night, and it just turned into … like when your mother-in-law comes to visit and decides to stay,” she said.
The Herald-Mail said the People’s Convoy website could not be found on Saturday, but that it posted on its Facebook page on May 20 saying that it “declares victory and announces its conclusion of the national convoy portion of this great movement.”