MILWAUKEE (WI)
PolitiFact
August 10, 2018
By Tom Kertscher
At a debate for the Democratic candidates for governor, the first question posed to attorney Matt Flynn was about his work defending the Archdiocese of Milwaukee in pedophile priest cases.
“I was not part of transferring anybody,” Flynn told the audience in Madison on Aug. 8, 2018, six days before the primary election.
Eight Democrats are competing for the right to take on GOP Gov. Scott Walker in the fall. Citing the priest cases, Walker has called on Flynn to drop out of the race.
For years, accused Catholic priests were routinely transferred from one parish or school to another, and many of them continued molesting children. Certainly, transfers were actually ordered by the archdiocese, not by lawyers such as Flynn who were retained by the archdiocese.
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