It was a traffic nightmare for many in Washington, DC this morning as a result of protesters on horses and mule wagons. No really this is NOT The Onion. It really happened without a scintilla of awareness of the irony of it all on the part of the "authentic cowboys" who journeyed from California across the US to DC to bellyache about the Bureau of Land Management having the audacity to limit their subsidized grazing on drought stressed land.
Ride on, cowboy! Men on horses caused rolling street closures
Horses, a mule wagon and cowboys (yes, you read correctly) could create a traffic problem this morning as they make their way from Prince William County to the District. Virginia State Police said the Grass March and Cowboy Express is on its way along the Route 234 and Route 29 corridors, after starting about 4 a.m., to raise concerns about ranchers’ grazing rights. In the pre-dawn hours, NBC 4 showed a man on horseback in Manassas. The rider said he was headed to the Key Bridge in the District to meet up with a larger group. It was not immediately known at what times the group is expected to hit the D.C. area. They are traveling with a crew of support vehicles as well, the group’s Facebook page said.
The ride was organized by Grant Gerber, a commissioner in Elko County, Nev., to protest the federal Bureau of Land Management’s move to close some grazing areas in Nevada because of severe drought, according to the NevadaJournal.com. According to the group’s Facebook page, they started their journey in late September from Bodega Bay, Calif., and have been traveling along highways, riding about 12 to 15 hours a day.
As many of you would guess - yes the organizer was also hanging around Clive Bundy's ranch a few months back.
If you wander into the article's comments section, you'll see that they really p*ssed off many of us in the DC area. First off nothing unites liberals and conservatives more in the area than traffic. You mess with our commutes you get on everyone's sh*t list!
The other thing that really really frosts residents of the District is folks bellyaching about taxation without representation. You just know these yahoo cowboys are probably against DC statehood too. SIGH.