Thursday, August 2, 2012
School district parent Jennifer Crowder says she will pursue further legal action against the school committee member.
The Attleboro Election Commission voted unanimously Thursday evening at City Hall to dismiss a residency complaint against School Committee member David Murphy. Jennifer Crowder, who filed the complaint, announced at the beginning of the hearing that she had accepted defeat. She said after the hearing that she would pursue other legal actions against Murphy. Although the complaint alleged Murphy was not a resident of Attleboro last year when he filed to run for office and when he was elected, the commission was only willing to consider whether he was a resident in mid-July of this year, which is when Crowder filed the complaint. For this reason, Crowder acknowledged Thursday evening that she could not win. This could just be the end of …
Thursday, July 26, 2012
A school district parent says Attleboro School Committee member David Murphy was not a resident when he was elected last fall. Murphy says this is not true. The commission likely won't even consider this issue.
The hearing on Attleboro School Committee member David Murphy's residency has been scheduled for next week on Thursday at 6 p.m. The session will take place in the City Council chambers at City Hall. The Election Commission voted unanimously last week to hold the hearing after accepting a complaint from school district parent Jennifer Crowder, who says Murphy was a resident of Boston, not Attleboro, last fall when he filed to run for office. However, Commission Chair Fran V. Hutton said last week that at the advice of the Secretary of State's office via a city solicitor, the four-member panel could only consider whether Murphy was an Attleboro resident on July 16, the date Crowder filed the complaint. Murphy told Attleboro Patch during the…
Tuesday, July 17, 2012
The Election Commission will meet Thursday at City Hall.
A notice was posted at City Hall on Tuesday for an Election Commission meeting with just three items on the agenda—roll call, "other business that may come forward" and a school district parent's allegation that School Committee member David Murphy was not an Attleboro resident when he was elected last fall. District parent Jennifer Crowder filed the complaint on Monday. A previous complaint was dismissed by the commission last week because it did not include all the features required for consideration. Crowder has alleged that Murphy was a resident of Boston when he was elected. Murphy says he rented an apartment in Boston, but maintains a permanent address in Attleboro. The meeting will take place at City Hall's Annex Conference Room, …
The document submitted by school district parent Jennifer Crowder says Committee member David Murphy was not a resident of Attleboro during the 2011 election. Murphy says the complaint "is riddled with inaccuracies and lies."
School district parent Jennifer Crowder has not backed down from her mission to invalidate David Murphy's November 2011 election to the Attleboro School Committee. After the Election Commission rejected her claim last week on technical grounds that she had not filed a proper challenge, Crowder on Monday submitted a new document to the Election's Department at City Hall. The revised document, which is attached to this article, contains legal language and is typed, looking significantly different from the previous handwritten submittal. In the complaint, Crowder alleges Murphy did not meet the residency requirements to run for school committee last year because he lived in Boston. Among the features that she claims proves he was not an …
Adam Edward
9:12 am on Tuesday, August 7, 2012
I like how you say the people who support him are the minority. This was all out in the open before the election and over 4,000 people voted for him then. more ›