National rally supporting Trump, protesting stay-at-home orders drives through Bluffton
Debra Schutz smiled Friday as she worked to tape a white poster to the side of her car.
“LET MY PEOPLE GO.... TO WORK,” it said in outlined letters.
Schutz, of Ridgeland, was dressed in her “Women for Trump” shirt and ready to rally.
She organized the local driving event as part of the “MAGA Mayday Rally For Freedom” to show support for President Donald Trump and protest stay-at-home coronavirus orders. About 50 driving rallies were planned across the nation.
The Bluffton rally along U.S. 278 included eight vehicles and about a dozen people from Beaufort and Jasper counties.
For Schutz, it’s about her Constitutional rights.
“I should have the right to go to any store I want to if we want to take the risk,” she said.
Fellow rally participants echoed Schultz’s sentiments.
“I believe (S.C. Gov. Henry McMaster) and the president have done a great job, but it’s time to reopen America,” Sun City resident George Lipsky said. “We need to do more. If America doesn’t go back to work then there won’t be an America.”
Karen Wyld, also of Sun City, agreed.
“Enough is enough,” she added. “We need to get back out instead of being cooped up at home.”
Just after noon, the caravan of vehicles decorated with American flags, Make America Great Again gear, and posters with sayings such as “Make America Open Again” and “America works when America’s Working” departed on its route, which passed The Island Packet and TV stations’ offices.
“It’s just time,” Helen Spalding, of Beaufort, said. “We were scared in the beginning and we did stay at home, but it’s time to start opening things again.”
