In December, it emerged that Flynn — a Rhode Island native, retired lieutenant general and former national security adviser who pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI and was later pardoned by Donald Trump — would be inducted into the Hall of Fame at its annual banquet this spring.

At least nine members of the organization’s board resigned in response. Some of this year’s other inductees said they would decline the honor. The husband of one of the board members who had resigned reported the group’s former longtime president to the Internal Revenue Service.

As a kid, I remember visiting the North Dakota Hall of Fame, which is literally a hall in the basement of the state capitol.  The first inductee was, obviously, Lawrence Welk.  Peggy Lee also made the cut.  Anyway, it’s one of those strange characteristics of little states that they have to honor people whose first step towards fame and fortune was leaving the state.  (Peggy Lee, for example, says she fled to escape abuse at the hands of her stepmother.)  I don’t recall any recently-pardoned criminals in the ND HOF, but I haven’t been there since I was a boy.