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A county supervisor refused to lower the flag to half staff for Kirk.
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) - A county supervisor in Iowa who defied the governor’s order to lower flags in honor of Charlie Kirk acknowledges that he could lose his job because of his decision.
But Johnson County Supervisor Jon Green believes that he had to take a stand for something that he did not think was fair.
Governor Kim Reynolds ordered flags lowered after someone killed Kirk, a conservative activist, last Wednesday at an event at Utah Valley University.
Green says he has received hundreds of hateful calls and emails. He said strangers showed up and lowered the flag themselves this past weekend.
“It is a difficult environment, but I think people need to see principal leadership standing up in support of the people that I represent,” Green said Monday.
He condemned Kirk’s killing.
But he wrote in a post on X Thursday, after Governor Reynolds ordered flags lowered in honor of Kirk, “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.”
Governor Reynolds and other Republican lawmakers criticized the post, calling it disgraceful..
But Green said lowering the flag for Kirk is not fair since Reynolds didn’t order flags to be lowered after a gunman killed Minnesota’s Democratic House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband in June.
“For the governor to refuse that honor for a speaker, a sitting member of the Minnesota House of Representatives just up the street from us, and to bestow that honor to Charlie Kirk, who never held elected office, guiled me. ”
He will be up for reelection in 2027.
