Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey has ordered that all flags continue to be flown at half-staff through the weekend, marking Charlie Kirk’s death, a directive that has garnered liberal backlash across the state.

Mara Dolan, a Democratic public defender who sits on the Governor’s Council, says the conservative activist should not be honored in the Bay State because he didn’t support “Massachusetts’ historic values.”

Dolan is sticking with a stance she made on X on Thursday that “Massachusetts flags should not be lowered for Charlie Kirk,” whom she has described as “racist, sexist, (and) homophobic.”

“What happened was a terrible tragedy, a terrible tragedy for him, for his family, for his supporters and for the country,” Dolan said in an interview on GBH’s Boston Public Radio on Friday. “T

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