Flags in New York's Nassau County not lowered to half-staff following Jimmy Carter's death

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: CBS News

January 3, 2025 / 10:15 PM EST


MINEOLA, N.Y. — A Republican official who oversees Nassau County on New York's Long Island has seemingly refused to lower flags to half-staff in memory of the late Democratic President Jimmy Carter, who died last weekend at the age of 100.

Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman, a Republican, has not publicly explained his reason for not lowering flags at Nassau County-operated buildings. Following Carter's death Sunday, President Biden called for flags to be flown at half-staff for 30 days at all federal facilities. When reached Friday, a spokesman for Blakeman told CBS News New York that he was "unavailable for comment."

Democratic county legislator Seth Koslow told CBS News New York that honoring a former president should transcend partisan politics, calling the move an embarrassment to Nassau County.

"Politics shouldn't play into this right now. This should be about what's right for a person who represented our country, who guided our country and then served our country when they were done as president, and it's the right thing to do," Koslow said.

Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nassau-county-flags-not-lowered-jimmy-carter/

[Clouds Passing]

1. Petty

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

3. Agreed. It's petty.

And he won't explain why he's doing it. Chickenshit.

[sop]

26. Probably a big Trump supporter who saw his comment about not flying flags at half-staff for Carter.

I expect this will now spread to other red states and counties as a way of showing fealty to Trump.

[11 Bravo]

7. It's the Republican way.

[Emile]

33. It's in the DNA of Right-Wing Fascists to be disrespectful.

[2naSalit]

10. Extremely so.

I hope he gets roasted hard for it.

[NotHardly]

21. Yeah, tell me you're petty without saying you're petty

[Botany]

2. This says more about Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman, a Republican than anything else.

He is a small and petty little man but I am willing to bet that someplace in and or around Nassau
County a family is living in a home built by Habitat for Humanity and millions of people are not
crippled by Guinea Worms in Africa and Asia because of the work by the Carter Foundation.*

Jimmy and Roselyn’s works will live on and Bruce will fade from the planet after he passes.

* https://www.cartercenter.org/health/guinea_worm/index.html

[yellow dahlia]

23. Well said

[Botany]

25. Blakeman is an example of what happens when you listened to Rush, or watch Fox News, or log into ...

…. some right wing web site (aka Russian disinformation in most cases), or are part of some
Christo Fascist Evangelical organization and don’t know or refuse to know that you are being
lied to 24/7. Down thread you can see that he is part of the “saving America from the threat
posed by Trans People” (again an issue that Russia and Putin have pushed in America via
groups such as QANON and the GOP) to see what a sick man he is. BTW if you are past 20
years old you have showered or been in the restroom with GLBT people and nothing has happened
unless you wanted it to happen. It wouldn’t surprise me if he is huge closet case.

[lark]

4. Isn't there anything Hochul can do to force him to follow the law?

Hoping so!

[DeeDeeNY]

38. Blakeman is in violation of a New York State decree. There should be serious consequences.

But I'm guessing there won't be.

https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/governor-hochul-directs-flags-half-staff-honor-former-president-jimmy-carter

[Deuxcents]

5. President Carter served this country in more ways than one. He was a distinguished Naval Officer,

Governor of Georgia, President of US. His non profit Carter Center work for humanity, here and abroad. He was a Nobel Peace Prize recipient. This official from New York could not ever be in the same league as President Carter and I hope the people in his district speak up and show respect

[bronxiteforever]

6. Not for one second can this creep

become part of the United States. He must be the last word even in matters of death and memorial.
My guess is that Bruce Blakeman has done very little to improve the life of his fellow human.

There is no human blood in Blakeman just cold blooded slime. He clearly is a coward as well.He is hiding somewhere because he runs bright yellow.

[hay rick]

8. MAGA has a bottomless well of self-pity and petty reprisals.

[JohnnyRingo]

9. How very small of him.

Show us on the doll where Pres Carter hurt you.

[Lucky Luciano]

11. When his lowness takes his dirtnap, I'll buy a flag for the first time and raise it very high!

Usually, I’m very George Carlin-esque and think of symbols as being for the symbol-minded. In this case, I’ll make an exception!

[NotHardly]

12. Isn't that where Alito lives and flies his Nazi flag?

[Prairie Gates]

18. No, that's Long Beach Island, New Jersey

[Bernardo de La Paz]

13. tRump-kissing maga

Transgender women at county facilities

On February 22, 2024, Blakeman issued an executive order banning women's sports teams that include transgender women from using county facilities. The ban applies to youth, college, and professional sports. Sports teams including transgender men were not targeted. In a press conference beforehand, Blakeman repeatedly referred to transgender women as "bullies" and "biological males," and recommended that they join men's or co-ed teams instead. State Democratic leadership and Long Island LGBTQ advocates condemned the order as discriminatory and illegal under state law, and accused Blakeman of using the controversy over transgender people in sports for self-promotion.[70][71][72]

State attorney general Letitia James issued a cease-and-desist letter to Blakeman; he sued the attorney general in response.[73] In March the Long Island Roller Rebels, represented by the New York Civil Liberties Union, filed suit against Blakeman over the order.[74][75] Later that month Caitlyn Jenner made an appearance with Blakeman in support of the ban.[76] In April, district court judge Nusrat Jahan Choudhury denied a request from Blakeman for a restraining order against James preventing her from blocking the executive order.[77] Later that month, Choudhury dismissed his suit against James.[73]

On May 11, a state judge struck down the order on the grounds that the county executive lacked the authority to impose the ban.[78] The county legislature passed a similar ban the next month, voting along party lines.[79][80][81]

[William Seger]

14. I believe Jimmy Carter was the most Christian president we've ever had...

... and a reminder that Jesus was a progressive liberal. Blakeman is a reminder that the essence of trumpism is just mean-spirited anti-liberalism.

[Dem4life1970]

15. When you are in a cult, it makes sense...

...to act this way. Shame on this ignorant fool. Who raised him?

[IcyPeas]

16. Blakeman is hoping trump notices him.

Must be hoping for a spot in trump administration?

[GiqueCee]

17. The disheartening truth of the matter...

... is that such petty, juvenile disrespect is the hallmark of the sick and twisted monstrosity that was once the Republican Party. Common human decency is anathema to these people. They are congenitally incapable of expressing anything but bilious malice toward anyone and anything that does not conform to their narrow-minded and diseased belief system. Trump's obscene rhetoric and flagrant dishonesty gave these people license to fulminate against the stalwart character of a man who devoted his life to honorable service, in stark contrast to those on the Dark Side of American politics, AKA the Republican Party. Their own venom will ultimately destroy them, but how many will suffer and die at their hands before honor is restored, if it ever is?
I'm not holding my breath in anticipation. The GOP is rotten to its core.

[Quanto Magnus]

19. GOP displaying their hate

of everyone not fascist....

[Martin68]

20. They are all classless assholes.

[jvill]

22. Nassau County doesn't like Jimmy, they are more pro felony rapist.

[union rep]

24. Peckerwood territory

Fuck Nassau county. Bruce Blakeman should pole sit with a flag stuck up his ass instead of Trumps finger.

[lapucelle]

37. Fuck Nassau County? I live in Nassau County

and have been working with the Nassau County DNC for the better part of 30 years. We work hard to elect Democrats every cycle, in elections big and small. We flipped two Congressional seats blue last November.

Who's Peckerwood? Is it a name we should know?

Welcome to DU.

[Mike Nelson]

27. I predict...

... in the next 25 years, many people will be reluctant to do anything to memorialize the death of the current President-elect. I would completely understand... however, I would lower the US flags if requested. Unless I was required to attend as a member of an elected office, I would attend no services. I would follow some old "If you have nothing nice to say..." advice and say nothing. Blakeman is showing his character.

[niyad]

32. The sooner we can start showing that disrespect, the better.

[GreenWave]

35. I'm booking 25 months max,

[niyad]

36. I was going to say, starting today works for me, but, having given the matter

a moment's thought, January 11 works. President Carter's State Funeral will be over, so he cannot interfere with that, and Judge Merchan will have, presumably, handed down TRAITOR**'s sentence.

[madaboutharry]

28. I'm surprised more MAGA didn't behave like this.

MAGA is unAmerican and unpatriotic. These people hate everything that binds Americans together.

The smallness of his actions say everything about him and nothing about Jimmy Carter.

[badhair77]

29. He says all the "right" things.

https://www.nassaucountyny.gov/481/County-Executive

His bio.

[evemac]

30. Maturity of an 2nd grader - ridiculous (nt)

[Gore1FL]

31. In their efforts to look patriotic, the right-wing nuts violate flag codes all of the time

That said, I won't fly anything at half mast when Trump dies. Fuck him.

[City Lights]

34. So disrespectful.

Are all Republicans actually toddlers living in adult bodies? Grow up!