WISCONSIN
The Cap Times
May 9, 2018
By Jessie Opoien
Milwaukee attorney Matt Flynn is fighting off a call from a women’s group to end his gubernatorial campaign based on his work as an attorney representing the Archdiocese of Milwaukee against victims of sexual abuse by priests.
Wisconsin Women’s March co-chair Sarah Pearson called on Flynn to drop out following the publication of a story about his work with the archdiocese in the liberal, Milwaukee-based Wisconsin Gazette. In a brief interview on Wednesday, Flynn said “misinformation” would be a “polite term” to describe the arguments against him.
“The archdiocese is a great organization and the vast majority of priests are good men who devote their lives to people and don’t make very much money. They’re good people,” Flynn told reporters after a candidate forum in Madison. “And the handful of ones that committed these abuses, I was not their lawyer. I represented the archdiocese … I didn’t defend their conduct, neither did the archdiocese.”
Asked by Pearson about a particular priest mentioned in the Gazette story, Flynn said the article was “fundamentally untrue in many, many respects,” and told Pearson to watch for a statement from his campaign. Pearson posted a video on Facebook of their conversation, which took place after a candidate forum in Madison on Sunday.
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