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1. **From the article--looks like two other officials from two other cites also kept Flags at Full Staff...........

Sun Sep 14, 2025, 03:57 PM

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I initially did not see as ads were floating around and I missed it.

https://www.tampafp.com/dem-mayor-in-illinois-orders-flags-at-full-staff-defying-presidents-charlie-kirk-proclamation/

...............The controversy in Aurora is not an isolated incident. Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass also reportedly kept flags at full staff, and Johnson County, Iowa Board of Supervisors Chairman Jon Green defied a similar order from his state’s Republican governor, Kim Reynolds.

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Good - we need more push back. yellow dahlia Sunday #2

Pritzker was wrong on this one IMHO. rzemanfl Sunday #5

Did he order that the flag be lowered? choie Sunday #7

That's what the article said. n/t rzemanfl Sunday #8

This message was self-deleted by its author rzemanfl Sunday #6