Massachusetts Republican gubernatorial candidates say public employees who appear to celebrate Charlie Kirk’s assassination should be fired, while Gov. Maura Healey called for the political temperature to be lowered.

Mike Kennealy and Brian Shortsleeve, GOP candidates for governor, and Healey are making their stances after the Massachusetts Teachers Association defended educators who have been suspended for reacting positively on social media to the conservative activist’s death.

Kennealy and Shortsleeve say that educators and any government employees should be removed from their positions if they view Kirk’s assassination positively.

“Any expression of joy over an assassination is abhorrent,” Kennealy said in a statement. “It’s indefensible that the Teachers’ Union is defending individ

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