Two hours northeast of Los Angeles, Adelanto is best known for its prisons. Gabriel Reyes, the city’s part-time mayor — a Republican who runs a small currency trading and marketing business — said the city-owned stadium, which once hosted a minor league baseball game, is little used outside of the annual Kushstock cannabis festival.
“I haven’t seen us make a lot of money from this,” he said, “but if they all want to fill up at our gas station in Arco and we get this California tax, then, hey, we’ll say, “Thank you.” you!'”
On Wednesday, the mayor’s wife sang the national anthem to the truckers before they left for their next stop in Kingman, Arizona. Among the speakers at the rally was Dr. Pierre Corey, an active supporter of the use of the antiparasitic drug ivermectin is not recommended as a cure for Covid-19, and Pastor Rob McCoy, a Republican politician and evangelical leader in Southern California who gained notoriety for defying pandemic regulations and calling Gov. Gavin Newsom “Gov. Newsolini.”
Ms Dundas, who hosted the event, said: “It’s been two years and it’s time to open up the damn economy without any restrictions.”
The list of organizations backing the column included those led by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., leader of the anti-vaccine movement, and General Michael Flynn, a former Trump administration national security adviser.
This latest group, the America Project, has combined its efforts to challenge Covid-19 policies with the relentless promotion of pro-Trump conspiracy theories. The group is led by Patrick Byrne, former CEO of Overstock.com, who, along with General Flynn, played a central role in whimsical plot convince the former president to use the military to take over the voting machines in an attempt to stay in power.