Official Defies GOP Governor's Order To Fly Flags At Half Staff For Charlie Kirk
Source: Huff Post
Sep 13, 2025, 04:34 PM EDT | Updated 8 hours ago
A local official in Iowa defied the governor’s orders to fly flags at half-staff in honor of Charlie Kirk, saying he did not want to honor a man “who did so much to harm not only the marginalized, but also to degrade the fabric of our body politic.”
Jon Green, chair of the Johnson County Board of Supervisors, shared a screenshot on Facebook of a note he had sent to elected officials in the county, which includes Iowa City. In the note, he ordered flags to fly at half-staff on 9/11 in remembrance of those who died in the 2001 attacks, and asked “that we keep all victims of gun violence, including the slain Colorado students, at front of mind as we serve.”
The students he mentioned were shot at a Denver-area high school on Wednesday, the same day Kirk, founder of the conservative group Turning Point USA, was assassinated in Utah. While Green didn’t explicitly mention Kirk in his note to staff, he did address Kirk’s death in his Facebook post.
“I condemn Kirk’s killing, regardless of who pulled the trigger or why,” he wrote on the social media platform. “But I will not grant Johnson County honors to a man who made it his life’s mission to denigrate so many of the constituents I have sworn an oath to protect, and who did so much to harm not only the marginalized, but also to degrade the fabric of our body politic.” Green, a Democrat, noted he would “accept any consequence, whether legal or electoral, for my decision. It is mine alone.”
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all over our area here in Oregon.
For Charlie Kirk? I’m very sorry for his family and others who cared about him. But all the flags in and around Portland at half staff - for HIM? He was a political operative who had some higher-profile credits. But his name and reputation hadn’t had much of an impact on the general public. But gee whiz, flags at half-staff for him?
I guess he’s no longer a political operative now. He’s a freakin’ STAR!
if I did, I would not fly the flag at half staff for kirk or any other hate and violence advocate. abbott can go fuck himself. trump as well.
WTF! 
