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Mike Flynn (October 19, 1967 – June 23, 2016) was an American online journalist who was known as the original editor of the Big Government website at Breitbart News.

Born and raised in Quincy, Illinois, Flynn was a sixth-generation native of Central Illinois. He graduated from Quincy High School in 1985 and graduated from University of Iowa in 1989. From 1989 until 1992, Flynn was the general manager of the Coca Cola Bottling Company in Keokuk, Iowa. He then worked on the staff of the Illinois General Assembly from 1992 to 1997. From 1997 to 2004, Flynn worked for the American Legislative Exchange Council. He was a lobbyist and worked for the Reason Foundation.^[1] Flynn had testified numerous times before the U.S. Congress and dozens of state legislatures. His research has been cited by publications such as The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and The New York Times.^{[2][self-published} ^source]

In 2015, Flynn ran for Congress during the Illinois's 18th congressional district special election to fill the remainder of the term of Republican Aaron Schock, who resigned on March 31, 2015. He was endorsed by conservative activists such as Ted Cruz, Mark Levin, Congressman Steve King, Congressman Louie Gohmert, Richard Viguerie, Stephen Moore, and Erick Erickson.^{[3][self-published} ^source] State Senator Darin LaHood defeated Flynn in the Republican primary on July 7, 2015 with 69.5% of the vote to Flynn's 27.7%.^[4][5]

In 2016, Flynn served as a member of the Cruz for President Illinois Leadership Team^[6] and was scheduled to be a Ted Cruz delegate at the 2016 Republican National Convention.^[7]

According to the Quincy Herald-Whig, Flynn self-described "as a strongly conservative libertarian," and he emphasized the U.S. national debt, reducing government regulations, and border security.^[1]

Flynn died on June 23, 2016.^[8]

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is with great sadness that we announce the passing of one of our own here at Breitbart News. Mike Flynn has passed away.

Mike was well known and liked by a great many people, both in Washington, DC and across the conservative movement and we have little doubt additional tributes will be pouring in in the days ahead.

His wife Holly Flynn Pitt-Young released the following statement:

It is with extreme sadness and heartbreak to announce that Mike Flynn, an Editor at Breitbart News, unexpectedly passed away Thursday evening.

While Mike had many accomplishments, what he was most proud of, was being an amazing father, husband, son, and friend to all who knew him.

The family wishes for privacy at this difficult time.

Mike is also survived by a daughter Riley Flynn, through a previous marriage to Maura Flynn.

“Mike was a dear friend and was there in the trenches with us from the beginning. He was our original editor of the Big Government websiteand is and will forever remain an indelible part of Breitbart. Our hearts, thoughts and prayers go out to his family on this terrible night. Mike will be sorely missed,” said Larry Solov, President and CEO of Breitbart News Network.

Added Breitbart News Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow, “Mike Flynn was an integral part of the Breitbart News team from the very beginning. Andrew hand-picked him to launch BigGovernment.com and guide our coverage of the ACORN sting videos that put Breitbart.com on the map.He continued to provide institutional political knowledge that was indispensable for our development as a news network. He was also a great patriot and friend.”

“Mike was a fighter, first and foremost. Whether he was running for Congress, serving as a Cruz delegate, or driving narratives on the pages of Breitbart News, he lived his life to advance the cause of liberty,” said Breitbart Executive Chairman Stephen K. Bannon.

Reached for comment, Mike’s good friend blogger Jim Hoft said:

Mike Flynn was a dear friend.We attended several Tea Party rallies and conventions together in 2009 and 2010. He was always steady, kind, smart and fun. He was one of Andrew Breitbart’s original warriors. In 2013 when I became deathly ill and nearly died from a sepsis infection Mike wrote my assistant and volunteered to post articles until I was well again. I was so touched when I heard the news. Mike and the Breitbart family filled in for me for weeks until I was well enough to resume posting. I will never forget his kindness. When I spoke with him this week we agreed to meet up in Cleveland. I will miss him dearly. He was a good man and a good friend. Rest in peace.

Tributes from co-workers, friends, and acquaintances are already beginning to flow across Twitter.

Brandon Darby ? @brandondarby

RIP, Mike Flynn. A great human being. A patient and kind editor. Always willing to work with you and help. @Flynn1776

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Kerry Picket ? @KerryPicket

My friend Mike Flynn died today and I'm heartbroken #RIP

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James O'Keefe @JamesOKeefeIII

RIP. It was Mike Flynn who introduced me to Andrew B. https://twitter.com/gatewaypundit/status/746186641648287744 …

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Mícheál Breathnach @dkahanerules

Very sorry to hear of the death of my friend and comrade from the original Breitbart days, Mike Flynn. RIP, brother: http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/06/23/rip-breitbart-news-editor-mike-flynn-passes-away/ …

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At the Pearly Gates, you can bet the Founding Fathers were there to give @Flynn1776 a standing ovation.

— John Nolte (@NolteNC) June 24, 2016

The career of Mike Flynn, the man Breitbart tapped to helm Big Government in 2009, almost perfectly demonstrates the confluence of these forces.

Flynn held the lead role at Big Government for three years, continuing on for another four when the role shifted into political editor of Breitbart.com’s newly consolidated web presence, and until his untimely death last June. He was a gleeful confrontationalist well-suited to the Breitbart tonality, whose combat dicta — “always engage” and “always play offense” — were celebrated in at least one obit.

Before joining this right-wing media powerhouse, Flynn worked for the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) from 1997–2004, where he served as the director of legislation and policy for five years.

For decades, ALEC has served as the primary mechanism by which the US Chamber of Commerce and the Kochs’ network of corporate interests have diluted federal environmental and labor laws and garnered other concessions.

ALEC routinely drafts “model legislation” for its dim-witted, dues-paying underlings in state houses and local assemblies to dutifully pass into law. During Flynn’s tenure, ALEC managed to pass “truth in sentencing” bills in forty states. This misnamed legislation was codrafted with the massive for-profit prison firm Corrections Corporation of America, which had the morbidly self-interested goal of making it harder for inmates to get parole.

Flynn then spent some time as the director of government affairs for the astroturfing specialists at Berman and Company before returning to the bosom of the Kochs’ nonprofit network, spending two years at theReason Foundation and then finally joining Breitbart’s nascent media endeavor.

A decade of experience as an advocate for corporate interests in government had exactly the effect one would expect on Mike Flynn’s tenure running a news website. In one telling episode, Flynn’s Big Government ran three anonymously authored hit pieces against the president of the libertarian Cato Insitute, Ed Crane,amid a seemingly accidental, but very bitter, public feud between Crane and his think tank’s paymasters, Charles and David Koch.

Crane had spoken out of turn about Charles Koch’s goofy management-philosophy book to the New Yorker’s Jane Mayer under circumstances that he had believed to be off the record. For “anyone who doubts the Kochs are narcissistic enough for that to be a motivating factor,” J. Arthur Bloom had only one question: “What kind of self-respecting billionaire writes a self-help book?”

Obviously, no economics training is required to understand the conflict of interest in letting a career lobbyist run a news organization. In the theory toolkit available to Breitbart’s early Tea Party readers, this would be “common sense.” Flynn’s work as ambassador between self-interested global business elites and career politicians would constitute crony capitalism at its most refined.

Educated libertarian operatives and senior personnel have since had to devise sophisticate rationalizations to alleviate their consciences.

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He also ran as a Tea Party insurgent in a special 2015 election for the 18th congressional district in Illinois, drawing endorsements from the likes of Ted Cruz (Flynn was slated to be a Cruz delegate at the upcoming Republican National Convention), but lost by a wide margin.

Prior to collaborating with Breitbart, Flynn worked here at the Reason Foundation from 2007-2009 as the director of government affairs, where he kept an eye out for regulation creep, put together coalition discussions on thorny issues such as immigration, and also contributed our journalistic output.

In that latter category he contributed to three of my favorite pieces of journalism during my tenure as editor. The first was this legal-immigration flow-chart, which he compiled with the help of Shikha Dalmia and Terry Colon, under the headline "What Part of Legal Immigration Don't You Understand?"

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That illustration (see this PDF for a larger image; thanks Crusty Juggler!), which helped drill down Flynn's long-held point that fixing illegal immigration starts first by addressing the problems with the legal variety, won a first place Southern California Journalism Award.

The second Flynn highlight was a quick online piece during the height of the fall 2008 financial crash sketching out the roots of the crisis; we published an updated/expanded version in our next print issue. At a time when the chattering classes were throwing an even bigger hissy fit over the economics of the unwashed than they are this morning over Brexit, and when even ostensibly free-market commentators were clamoring for bailouts, Flynn managed a very calm and clear-eyed economic mini-history that explained, contrary to prevailing opinion, how government overreaction both led to and would certainly exacerbate the crisis.

The third Flynn piece, in collaboration with Adam B. Summers, was an extension of that bailout analysis, which applied unforgiving math to the common 2008-09 assertion that state governments had somehow been starved for cash, and thus required bailout money from Uncle Sam. In "Failed States: After a long spending binge, governors go begging for a handout. It won't be their last," Flynn and Summers pointed out that in the comparatively prosperous period between 2002 and 2007, state revenues increased by 81 percent (compared to inflation+population growth of 19 percent), and yet the laboratories for democracy chose to spend away the surplus rather than save for a rainy day. We illustrated the piece with a grim cover picture of then-California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (whose record came under additional Flynn scrutiny), and man, was the governor's office pissed.

Having spent decades in brass-knuckles politics, Flynn had a detailed and finely honed dislike for "the enemy"—public sector unions, state-funded activist networks, and the like. He was enthusiastic, almost gleeful, about Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's full frontal assault on the machinery of Democratic funding, and was always trying to get me to understand just how bad those bad guys were. He had forgotten more about the nuts and bolts of politics and campaigning and lobbying than 99 percent of political journalists will ever learn, yet was always patient about explaining things over a drink or three, preferably in a place that encouraged cigars.

Over at Hot Air, Larry O'Connor I think captures Flynn's spirit well:

To his friends, Flynn was fiercely loyal, quick witted, intelligent and relentless in his defense of America's founding ideals and the notion that individuals should have the right to live their lives without intrusion of the federal government in their lives. To his political adversaries he was tenacious and formidable yet quick with a joke and a cocktail at the end of a long, hard-fought battle.

I have shared many laughs with the man over the years, but never have I seen him light up more broadly than when talking about the love of his daughter Riley, who our heart goes out to today. Mike is also survived by his ex-wife, our friend Maura Flynn. You can read more obits in The State Journal-Register and Herald-Whig. RIP.