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Protestors across America rallied against Project 2025, including at the State Capitol and in Columbia.
COLUMBIA — Rallies were held across the nation Wednesday opposing conservative policy agenda Project 2025, but a group of older adults in Columbia said they couldn’t make it to Jefferson City for the nearest local demonstration.
So, the group of around 10 people, who called themselves “The Concerned Seniors,” gathered at the corner of West Nifong Boulevard and Bethel Street on Wednesday afternoon in solidarity with protesters rallying against Project 2025 at the state Capitol.
Project 2025 is a detailed policy agenda guide created by the Heritage Foundation, a conservative group. The 900-page book outlines a plan for the “next conservative president” to create radical change to the federal government.
Doris Lackey helped organize the event in a Current Affairs Club she co-chairs. She said the group saw a post on Facebook encouraging people to rally at their state Capitols that inspired them to do a demonstration themselves.
“We’re seniors — we’re 80 and 90 years old — and we thought it would be pretty hard to get to Jefferson City today,” Lackey said. “So we thought we could show solidarity and do our own protest here in Columbia.”
The group demonstrated by holding signs made by an organizer’s granddaughters.
John Rudder was a veteran and worked for the Department of Defense. He said he took the oath he made to the Constitution seriously then, and takes it “very seriously now.”
“(President Donald Trump) is turning that on its head,” Rudder said. “I just don’t see how anybody can stand by and watch this happen. It’s just not American.”
The group demonstrated by holding signs made by Lackey’s granddaughters.
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