Dan Flynn

Dan Flynn (born February 21, 1943) is a businessman and rancher from Van in northeastern Texas, who is a Republican member of his state's House of Representatives from District 2 (Hunt, Rains, and Van Zandt counties).

In December 2008, Flynn attracted statewide attention when he introduced legislation which would have mandated that public documents be printed only in English.

In 2011, Flynn served on the House Defense and Veterans Affairs and the Homeland Security and Public Safety committees.

Late in 2010, Flynn's colleague, Representative Bryan Hughes of Mineola in Wood County, claimed that Larry Phillips, a lawmaker from Sherman in north Texas, told Hughes that both Flynn and Erwin Cain, the newly-elected conservative representative from Sulphur Springs, would be significantly redistricted for the next primary election on March 6, 2012, because they had opposed the second-term reelection of Texas House SpeakerJoe Straus, a moderate Republican from San Antonio. In a hearing before the House Ethics Committee, chaired by another East Texas representative, Chuck Hopson of Jacksonville, an ally of Speaker Straus, Phillips denied having made such a threat to Hughes. Neither Hughes nor Phillips taped the conversation. No judgment was rendered by the committee because of the lack of corroborating witnesses.