WISCONSIN
Fox 6
MAY 22, 2018
BY THEO KEITH
MILWAUKEE — Democratic candidate for Wisconsin governor Matt Flynn denied any role in the transfer of sex abuser priests to new assignments within the Catholic church, comparing accusations against him to McCarthyism and telling a survivor of abuse to “knock it off.”
Flynn and Peter Isely, a founding member of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, had a heated, eight-minute exchange during a forum held in downtown Milwaukee on Tuesday, May 22.
Flynn has been dogged on the campaign trail for weeks about what he knew and did as outside counsel for the Archdiocese of Milwaukee from 1989 to 2004. He is among a crowded field of Democrats vying for the party’s nomination in the Aug. 14 primary.
“You have something to show me? Fine. If you think I transferred the priests in the Archdiocese, you’re wrong. Knock it off,” Flynn told Isely during the exchange.
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