Flynn had affair with journalist who wrote about him

When journalist Jessica McBride penned a glowing, 5,400-word profile of Police Chief Edward A. Flynn for Milwaukee Magazine earlier this year, many in the Milwaukee Police Department jokingly dismissed it as a love letter to the chief.

Little did they know.

Sometime earlier this year, Flynn and McBride struck up a romantic relationship.

Asked about the affair, the 61-year-old chief issued a statement Thursday acknowledging his indiscretion – without mentioning McBride, 39, by name.

"I have done my wife and family a great wrong, and I profoundly regret the hurt I have inflicted on them and others affected by my conduct," Flynn wrote. "I accept the personal and public consequences of my private behavior. I have damaged my public reputation and violated the trust and love of my family."

McBride – a journalism lecturer at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and a former Journal Sentinel reporter – has refused to respond to numerous messages about the liaison. McBride has been a prominent figure in the community, serving as a talk-show host and political blogger.[...]

According to the radio reports by the reporter who broke the story, Dan Bice, parts of a love letter Ms. McBride wrote the Chief, a former aide to Mitt Romney, were "too graphic" for the Journal Sentinel to publish.

From 2007:

Jessica McBride Finds Talk Radio’s Bottom

Tacky Talk Radio, McBride Mocks Death of a Child

Current reaction in the Journal Sentinel blog to the news: Shut out on Flynn and McBride

News of Police Chief Edward A. Flynn’s affair with local journalist Jessica McBride has prompted a number of reactions, including this one:

How exactly did the Milwaukee Police Department bar No Quarter from a news conference last week? [...]

If you follow the links, it appears this is not the first time Ms. McBride got too close to a source. She covered her current husband, Paul Bucher, when he worked in the District Attorney’s office.

FWIW Bitten and Bound Leaves Out the Parts about McBride’s Neo Con Past