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Johnson County supervisors chair Jon Green is defying the governor's order to lower flags for assassinated conservative figure Charlie Kirk.

Green said he would not honor a person who he says denigrated marginalized communities.

Gov. Kim Reynolds and Attorney General Brenna Bird condemned the decision as disgraceful and political.

The chair of the Johnson County Board of Supervisors is saying no to Gov. Kim Reynolds' order that flags on public grounds be lowered to half-staff in honor of assassinated conservative figure Charlie Kirk.

Jon Green posted on social media that by his “personal authority as Chairman of the Johnson County Board of Supervisors," the county, home of Iowa City and the University of Iowa, will defy the governor’s order.

While condemning Kirk’

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