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Residency Challenge

Thursday, August 2, 2012

Murphy Releases Residency Documents

The school committee member who faces a residency hearing tonight calls the challenge against him "a transparent attempt to undo a decision rendered by the voters of Attleboro."

On the eve of a hearing challenging his Attleboro residency, School Committee member David Murphy released a number of documents to the media that he says prove "I was, I am and I will be a resident of 49 Pioneer Circle in Attleboro." [The documents are attached to this article.] The documents include driver's licenses dated from 1999 to the present containing the Attleboro address, various financial documents featuring the Attleboro address and signed affidavits stating he lives in Attleboro from three people: the head of the Democratic City Committee, a friend and his father. Also included in the packet is a vehicle registration dated May 14, 2012 that features the Attleboro address. Murphy wrote in a statement that when he was elected …

Darren Major

4:19 pm on Tuesday, August 7, 2012

Outside of not following the people most of the posters here go with/support - what has he done so wrong? Fact based please!   more ›

Thursday, July 26, 2012

Residency Hearing Set for Aug. 2

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…

PhilD

12:03 pm on Friday, July 27, 2012

This is complicated, let me see if I can simplify it for you. The Election office is a city department which reports to the administration. It also has a "dotted line" responsibility to the Election Commission. It also has to comply with the edicts of the Election Division of the Secretary of States office. You can't really blame the Election office for this mess. They did what they were suppose …   more ›

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