Let's hear it for Johnson County (Iowa) Supervisor Jon Green. 👍❤️
Johnson County official defies Reynolds’ flag order in honor of Charlie 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.
“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 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. ”
https://www.kcrg.com/2025/09/15/johnson-county-official-defies-reynolds-flag-order-honor-charlie-kirk/