Paul Philip Flynn (born 9 February1935, Cardiff) is a Welsh politician, and has been Labourmember of Parliament for Newport West since 1987. Before then he was a researcher for Llew Smith. An entertaining and literate character, Flynn is highly regarded amongst his parliamentary colleagues, and has received acccolades for his campaigning work. He has also written a book, Dragons Led By Poodles, about the devolution campaign in Wales in the 1990s. Previously an industrial chemist in the steel industry, Flynn served as a councillor on Gwent County Council, representing a community in Newport where his fluent command of the Welsh language made him very much a member of a linguistic minority. February 9 is the 40th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1935 was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Cardiff (Welsh: Caerdydd) is the capital and largest city of Wales. ... National motto: Cymru am byth (Welsh: Wales for ever) Waless location within the UK Official languages English, Welsh Capital Cardiff Largest city Cardiff First Minister Rhodri Morgan Area - Total Ranked 3rd UK 20,779 km² Population - Total (2001) - Density Ranked 3rd UK 2,903,085 140/km² Ethnicity: 97. ... The Labour Party is the principal centrist/centre-left political party in the United Kingdom (see British politics). ... A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative elected by the voters of an electoral district to a parliament; in the Westminster system, specifically to the lower house. ... Newport (Welsh: Casnewydd) is the third largest city in Wales (after Cardiff and Swansea). ... 1987 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Llewellyn Thomas Smith (born 16 April 1944) is the Labour MP for Blaenau Gwent in Wales. ... Newport (Welsh: Casnewydd) is the third largest city in Wales (after Cardiff and Swansea). ...
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Guardian Unlimited Politics - Ask Aristotle: Paul Flynn MP
Ordained Bishop on June 24, 1986, Bishop Flynn served as the Bishop of the Diocese of Lafayette, Louisiana until being named Coadjutor Archbishop for the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis, Minnesota, in February of 1994.
On October 1, 1995, Archbishop Flynn succeeded Archbishop John Roach as head of the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis.
Archbishop Flynn currently serves as Chairman of the Saint Paul Seminary Board of Trustees, Saint Paul; Chairman of the University of Saint Thomas Board of Trustees, Saint Paul; President of the Saint John Vianney Seminary Board of Directors, Saint Paul; and on the College of Saint Catherine Board of Trustees, Saint Paul.
According to the indictment, Flynn participated in an organization which engaged in a series of violent crimes in an attempt to obtain and maintain control of various labor unions and to retaliate against leaders of rival groups, organizations and families for acts committed against the enterprise.
Flynn argues that his motion for judgment of acquittal should have been granted by the district court because the evidence against him on the RICO counts did not support the jury's verdict.
Flynn argued that, of some 750 hours of tape-recorded conversations intercepted by the Government, only two conversations contained Flynn's voice and those two were totally unrelated to the crimes demonstrated by the evidence.
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