Matt Flynn is a lawyer and politician in the United States. He moved to Milwaukee when he was 15. He attended Yale University on a scholarship and, after a stint in the Navy, attended the University of Wisconsin Law School on the GI Bill. He then served as a clerk to federal appellate judge, 1975-'76; and lost races for U.S. House, in 1978 to Jim Sensenbrenner, author of the Patriot Act, and 1988 to Jim Moody, and narrowly lost the U.S. Senate Democratic primary to Ed Garvey in 1986. In 2004, Flynn ran a very strong primary race for U.S. Congress, but lost to State Senator Gwen Moore, though Flynn beat two other primary opponents. He now is a lawyer with the Quarles and Brady law firm. Flynn is the former chair of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin. He was a co-chairman of Sen. John Kerry’s Wisconsin campaign for the presidency during the primary.
The Shepherd Express newspaper describes Flynn as such : "Flynn is an excellent politician from a campaign point of view. When he's going door-to-door, he's smooth, articulate, and not afraid to challenge someone who disagrees with him. He has a tremendous ability to remember people's names, a key to any good pol. His handshake is as forceful as his political views and persuasiveness. It's the so-called retail politics (door-to-door campaigning) that Flynn excels in. On the trail he pumps himself up by repeating "this is great, this is great" as he walks from door-to-door."
Flynn is rumoured to be the odds on favorite to recapture the Wisconsin Attorney General's office in 2010. He was co-chair for Governor Jim Doyle's campaigns and Doyle's sister has been co-chair of his previous Congressional campaigns.
Matthew Clayton Flynn (born June 20, 1985, in Tyler, Texas) is an American football quarterback for the Louisiana State University Tigers. In 2007, his fifth season at LSU, Flynn earned the starting quarterback job after former starting quartback JaMarcus Russell entered the 2007 NFL Draft. blank">Miles: QB Flynn 'appears to be' starter He is the son of Alvin Flynn, who played quarterback at _Baylor in the 1960s.
