Park Rangers Back Down for Roadside Inn

[Jackson]

Roadside inn reopens after feds tried to shut it down over budget impasse

The owner of a privately run inn along the Blue Ridge Parkway in North Carolina is back in business five days after the federal government forced him to close as a byproduct of the D.C. slimdown.

A posting on the company’s Facebook page said the inn was reopening at 5 p.m. Suggesting an agreement was reached with the feds, the post thanked the National Park Service “for working with us through all of this mess.”

O’Connell was among a growing group of business owners who argued that the federal government was needlessly choking off their ability to earn a living, and were fighting back. O’Connell had been vocal about looking into his legal options following the forced closing.
Congress’s inability to come to a compromise on bills that would have kept the government fully funded forced the inn, which is in a leased building on federal land, to shut down last Thursday.

On Monday, O’Connell told FoxNews.com that there were three cars and five rangers stationed outside his business in what he called a “24/7 blockade.”

“It appears to me the Obama administration is choosing to make this shutdown as painful as possible by unnecessarily forcing privately run small businesses to close just because they happened to be located on public lands, especially when this didn’t happen in the last government shutdown,” Rep. Doc Hastings, chairman of the House Committee on Natural Resources, told FoxNews.com in a statement.

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“Roadside inn reopens after feds tried to shut it down over budget impasse | Fox News


The National Park Service couldn't stomach this game any longer and gave into the owner of a privately owned inn along the Blue Ridge Parkway. That's like thumbing their nose to Obama. Just one more section of the population to do so.

 

[Vox]

Good. Finally some common sense.

Personally, I think park service employees just caved to the opinion pressure of their fellow citizens - they live in the area and are not flown from DC every morning.
So they have to deal with people who might tell them what they think very straight to the face.

 

[Jackson]

I hope it's just the beginning.

 

[bodecea]

Let the cars come and go...and any accidents, etc......not the government's problem.

I LOVE small government!

 

[Jackson]

Let the cars come and go...and any accidents, etc......not the government's problem.

I LOVE small government!

It never was their problem.

 

[LordBrownTrout]

Let the cars come and go...and any accidents, etc......not the government's problem.

I LOVE small government!

I didn't know that govt runs local fire depts and ambulance services.

 

[R.C. Christian]

It's time we start finding these park rangers and administer a little pay back. We can start with dog shit in their mailboxes.

 

[Jackson]

It's time we start finding these park rangers and administer a little pay back. We can start with dog shit in their mailboxes.

Just wondering...do you belong to a union?

 

[Hoffstra]

It's time we start finding these park rangers and administer a little pay back. We can start with dog shit in their mailboxes.

I'm former NPS and have friends who are current NPS.

You wouldn't dare mail them a postcard.