Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds on Facebook, criticizing Jon Green, current chair of the Johnson County Board of Supervisors, for deciding the Johnson County would not lower its flags in honor of Charlie Kirk.
It’s disgraceful that a locally-elected official has chosen to put politics above human decency during a time like this.
Instant a politician criticizes another politician for being political you can ignore the rest of their argument.
The truth is that “politics” and “human decency” do not align well unless your politics are “human decency” which often, unfortunately, isn’t very popular in practice (see: NIMBYism). Of course accusing a politician of putting politics above human decency is hypocritical and in bad faith.
Update: Ironically, Supervisor Green is reportedly getting death threats. The “human decency” Gov. Reynolds says she wants, includes, at least in my mind, not threatening to kill locally elected officials who decide to…[checks notes]…fly the American flag at full-staff. I look forward to her condemnation of these threats.