Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s participation in Lexington’s Burger Week has been postponed as he continues to get run off (albeit slowly) from participating restaurants by both protesters and officials every time he sits down to eat.

McConnell expected the protesters but was apparently surprised when Burger Week officials challenged the legal status of his Burger Week passport.

“Legally, we can not allow people to participate in Burger Week activities if they show up with an expired Burger Week passport, or without some sort of proof of a Kentucky residence,” said someone we assumed was a Burger Week official. (I think his name was Jeff but he was 8 beers deep and had just switched to a session ale.)

McConnell’s Burger Week status is complicated. He is officially a Kentucky resident but hasn’t stepped foot in the state for about 34 years. However, on Sunday he decided to come back to celebrate the freedom Lexington’s Burger Week grants us all, including the right for our arteries to clot.

“Burger Week is for residents only,” said a Burger Week bunner patrolman as he snatched an aioli burger out of the senator’s hands. Nearby, protestors tried to think up something that rhymes with the word turtle that they could chant.

McConnell has already been chased away from six different restaurants this week, and it’s only Tuesday. “I just came to your restaurant to feed my family,” he mumble-shouted, which is his loudest level of vocal volume. The irony was lost on him, and some ketchup, too.