I lost respect for Chris Christie over this. The flag at half staff for a drug addict? Does he fly the flag at half staff when a service member from his state dies in the line of duty? What could he be thinking?
There is a website that monitors when flags are lowered around the country and I checked it out the other day. It appears he lowers it for service members.
As the article notes, this is normal for New Jersey who honored a Springsteen band member the same way last year.
While not the choice I'd make, it's not my place to tell New Jersey how to handle memorializing its prominent citizens and that's exactly what she was.
Most of all, however, I'm thoroughly and utterly DISGUSTED at the dehumanized, crass, empty moralizing over this deceased person on FR since she died. It's perverse, pathological and beyond the pale.
What could he be thinking?
Well, on the other hand, he didn’t take a sofa ride with nan or show up on the tarmac with a tee shirt....so....