IOWA CITY — The chair of the Johnson County Board of Supervisors, Jon Green, is defying an order from Gov. Kim Reynolds that flags on public buildings be flown at half-staff through Sunday in honor of Charlie Kirk.

Kirk, the CEO and cofounder of the conservative youth organization Turning Point USA, died after being shot Wednesday at an event at Utah Valley University.

“I condemn Kirk’s killing, regardless of who pulled the trigger or why. 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 to protect, and who did so much harm not only to the marginalized, but also to degrade the fabric of our body politic,” Green wrote in a Facebook post.

Green said he came to the decision in part because a similar ord

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