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In their latest shocking disclosure, we learn from Dawn Gallagher Murphy’s former employees that:

“following a Black History Month event... she referred to it as “woke bullshit.”

I am left wondering which event the foul-mouthed fraud Gallagher Murphy was referring to. I think the organisers of Black History month events in Newmarket-Aurora should get in touch with her and ask her to elaborate.

Was it this one? Just a few weeks ago on 3 February (photo right).

Gallagher Murphy trilled:

"Attended Aurora’s Pan-African Flag Raising with the Aurora Black Community, an inspiring and heartfelt start to Black History Month."

Or was it on 1 February 2024

"Joined Aurora Black Community Association today for the Pan-African flag raising, marking the start of #BlackHistoryMonth "..

Or 27 February 2024?

After this will she have the nerve to attend another Black History event?

Probably.

Meals for voters and all paid for by Gallagher Murphy

In the last provincial election the mendacious Gallagher Murphy spent thousand of dollars on meetings where she provided free meals for people whose support she courted. All this was under the radar during the campaign and the details only emerged months afterwards when candidates are required to submit details of their election spending to Elections Ontario.

We don’t know how many meetings she hosted, nor the venues nor when they took place. And because these were not fundraising events Elections Ontario says there is no requirement to give this information.

We shall get the details of her current campaign spending once it's all over - when the details no longer matter.

Another no-show

Another Gallagher Murphy no-show at the candidates’ Q&A in Aurora last night. Candidates standing in (1) Newmarket-Aurora and (2) Aurora, Oak Ridges and Richmond Hill were invited.

What she was doing that was more important? 

But we know for a fact she wasn’t unwell. She posted a photo of her helpers on Twitter (X) and gushed:

“Grateful for our incredible volunteers who came out today!”

In her absence, Chris Ballard challenged her to a one-on-one debate, any time, any place. There is zero chance she will accept.

Too afraid.

 

Gallagher Murphy still leads in latest Poll

A majority of people in Newmarket-Aurora don’t want the deceitful Dawn Gallagher Murphy as their MPP.

So what do we do about it? 

Wring our hands?

Or vote for a candidate with a fighting chance of beating this fraud.

People who are not Liberals and who are revolted by Gallagher Murphy’s behaviour should lend their vote to Chris Ballard for this election just to get rid of her.

That's what I'm doing.

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The latest polling from Mainstreet Research shows Dawn Gallagher Murphy stretching her lead over Chris Ballard as the NDP's projected share of the vote rises at the expense of the Liberals.

The NDP's Denis Heng is projected to take 12.5% of the vote. In the last provincial election on 2 June 2022 he got 12.7%.

I like Denis and if he were breathing down Gallagher Murphy's neck I'd be urging people to vote for him. But that's not the case here.

A vote for the NDP in Newmarket-Aurora will, of course, boost their vote share provincially and that's an important consideration.

But not at the expense of returning the phoney Dawn Gallagher Murphy to Queen's Park.

Tactical Voting

People have been in touch with me following my post on tactical voting.

In a perfect world I would urge people to vote for their first preference but with first-past-the-post the winner takes all and this can produce terrible distortions especially when an election is being contested by many parties. So here in Newmarket-Aurora the bully, hypocrite and fraud, Dawn Gallagher Murphy, wins even though most people didn't vote for her.

Tactical voting is, of course, unnecessary in proportional voting systems.

But we don't have one and we may never have.

Winter Election

And why are we having an election in the middle of our frigid winter?

The first February election since 1883.

Most of our elections are in the warm summer months or in the Fall. June is a favourite with 17 provincial elections since 1867.

Mandate

Ford claims he needs a new mandate to deal with Donald Trump. But we all know that's untrue. All the parties at Queen's Park without exception will bury their differences to fight Trump's tariffs. They've all said as much.

Ford doesn't want to fight an election in Ontario if his friend Pierre Poilievre is Canada's new Prime Minister (after a short interregnum with a new Liberal PM)

It is a remarkable thing that over the last sixty years the Party in power federally at the time has - with only one exception - failed to win power provincially. (The table is from the CBC)

So if Pierre Poilievre wins the Federal election later this year history suggests Ford's Progressive Conservatives would find it more difficult to secure re-election here in Ontario.

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Update on 18 February 2025: From Newmarket Era: Doug Ford ignoring bullying allegations against Dawn Gallagher Murphy says Ballard

Update on 19 February 2025: From Newmarket Today: "Silence is Complicity".  ELEVEN former employees of Gallagher Murphy are now demanding action is taken against her.

Newmarket Today's Joseph Quigley writes: 

"Allegations against Gallagher Murphy first surfaced in December, when former constituency manager Teena Bogner filed a complaint at the Ontario Labour Relations Board, alleging Gallagher Murphy unfairly fired her after she raised concerns to PC Caucus Services about alleged harassment. That case was settled before the election campaign began, but a group of employees then came forward and hired a PR firm to share their own negative experiences working with Gallagher Murphy.

Those allegations include verbal abuse, calling and demanding work at unreasonable hours, lashing out, name-calling, not tolerating mistakes and reprimanding clothing choices in front of other employees.

In the news release, the group also discusses allegations of racism. In one case, following a Black History Month event, the group alleged she referred to it as “woke bullshit.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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A new poll from Mainstreet Reseach puts Liberal challenger Chris Ballard within three percentage points of the PC incumbent, Dawn Gallagher Murphy.

It puts Gallagher Murphy on 43.1%; Chris Ballard on 40.3%; Denis Heng on 9.9% and the Greens on 6.7%

Ballard, a former Cabinet Minister, represented Newmarket-Aurora between 2014-2018.

Mainstreet Research is rated A-

Polling organisations are given ratings according to the accuracy of their projections.

If this poll truly reflects opinion on the ground and it is not a rogue then it changes everything.

If I were Chris Ballard I'd challenge Gallagher Murphy to a public debate and invite local news organisations to set it up - and dare her to say she has a "scheduling conflict". 

She can run but she can't hide.

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This is the first February election since 1883 and as I tap this out huge swaths of Ontario are blanketed in deep snow. Doug Ford pitched us into this unnecessary election in the depths of winter, telling us he is the man to save us from Trump’s tariffs. He is also the guy who celebrated Trump’s election last November.

The Party Leaders' election debate tonight had few surprises. Ford insisted the others would raise taxes and he wouldn’t. Bonnie Crombie was hyper throughout, over-rehearsed and slightly manic. Marit Stiles was composed with some good lines but had few memorable zingers. Mike Schreiner was cool, calm and collected and scored some points.

But in the Legislature Ford, Crombie, Stiles and Schreiner will have one vote – just the same as the person we are about to elect to represent us in Newmarket-Aurora. So who should we vote for?

Leans to the Right

The Provincial electoral district of Newmarket-Aurora is wealthier than the average Ontario riding and leans to the right. Since its creation in 2006 the area has been represented in the Provincial Parliament by Progressive Conservatives (PCs) except for the period 2014-2018 when it returned a Liberal, Chris Ballard, who is running again in this election.

In the latest census (2021) no fewer than 17% of Newmarket households and 22% of Aurora households declared incomes over $200,000.

32% of all households in Newmarket and 37% in Aurora had household incomes over $150,000. (And these figures were collected in 2020 and would now have to be revised sharply upwards.)

In 2018, when the Liberals were uniquely unpopular, the NDP nudged the Liberals into third place. But, generally speaking, Newmarket-Aurora is not fertile ground for the NDP.

The pollsters tell us the election in Newmarket Aurora is pretty much decided. But what, if anything, could upend their predictions at this late stage?

Tactical Voting

Things could change if enough people were to vote tactically – that is, not for the Party of their first choice but for the Party with the best chance of defeating the incumbent, the deeply flawed Dawn Gallagher Murphy.

She was hand-picked by Doug Ford as the PC candidate for Newmarket-Aurora - as someone who would do his bidding. Members of the local Party had no say.

Lowest voter turnout in history

Ford’s PCs won the 2022 provincial election with the lowest voter turnout in Ontario's election history. Here in Newmarket-Aurora, more people voted against Gallagher Murphy than voted for her. But she got in because the opposition was divided. 

I’ve written a lot about Gallagher Murphy’s record of bullying and harassing her employees. Lots of people who have had dealings with her have been in touch with me since August last year. I never solicited these approaches. But their stories say something about the kind of person she is. Gallagher Murphy saves her smiles for the camera. 

When the cameras are switched off we see a darker and more sinister Gallagher Murphy.

Call out bullying when you see it

She gets away with it, in large part, because of her brass neck.

In a statement to the Legislature on 22 February 2023 she told MPPs she welcomed the opportunity to stand in the Chamber to raise awareness against bullying: 

“It is important that bullying behaviour is called out when you see it. It is also important to simply offer support and connect with people being bullied.”

And yet a long line of her former employees – and over an extended period - accuse the same Gallagher Murphy of prolonged, merciless bullying which affected their health. 

Toxic work environment

Teena Bogner started working for Gallagher Murphy on 9 April 2024. She only lasted a few months. She told the Ontario Labour Relations Board:

“On May 10, 2024, Dawn Gallagher Murphy hosted the Premier for a constituency tour. During a funding announcement that morning, the Mayor of Newmarket, John Taylor, indicated he would attend the tour, which was meant to be confidential. Dawn Gallagher Murphy became agitated, incorrectly assuming I had disclosed the tour details. This led to an unpleasant and uncomfortable exchange between us.

Throughout the day, Dawn Gallagher Murphy continued to display passive aggressive behaviour towards me, culminating in a disruptive interaction at TS Tech. Dawn Gallagher Murphy was very critical of the Mayor's attendance and expressed her displeasure to the TS Tech Director of Human Resources and Premier's staff, leaving me to apologize and mitigate….

Dawn Gallagher Murphy’s erratic and hostile behaviour continued, including unnecessary interruptions during my personal time, derogatory comments about colleagues, hanging up on me, and an overall toxic work environment that affected my health.” *

Teena Bogner has settled with Gallagher Murphy and won’t say a word about the terms of the settlement. But if other former employees who accuse the MPP of bullying and harassment step forward and talk to the local press this would be a gamechanger. 

Spending taxpayers' dollars like a drunken sailor

Since her election Gallagher Murphy has spent taxpayers' money like a drunken sailor, spending tens of thousands of dollars on her "free BBQs". She parrots the usual PC line about fiscal responsibility but the record proves otherwise.

On 16 March 2023 Newmarket Today reported that in the first of her three “free” BBQs:

“Dawn Gallagher Murphy had the biggest single expense of any MPP in the last quarter, and racked up the fourth largest total expense claim in the province…”

Taking money from Developers 

In 2022 Gallagher Murphy brazenly accepted campaign donations from the developer Michael Rice who stood to make millions from the opening-up of the Greenbelt for development at Bathurst.

The Ford Government is deeply corrupt. It stifles debate, ignores rules and trashes conventions. Take just one example.

In August 2023 the Integrity Commissioner, David Wake, recommended the Ontario Legislature reprimand the former Housing Minister, Steve Clark, for his role in the Greenbelt scandal. The Ford Government never brought the recommendation to the floor of the Chamber for debate and a vote. (Photo right: Steve Clark)

Clark still hasn't been reprimanded.

Lawsuit

The news last week that a lawsuit has been brought by a developer against Steve Clark’s former Chief of Staff, Ryan Amato, who was at the centre of the Greenbelt scandal is met with a shrug of the shoulders.

But the RCMP investigation – ongoing since October 2023 -  grinds on. 

At some stage, there will be a day of reckoning.

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Note: *In Teena Bogner’s Statement of Complaint to the Ontario Labour Relations Board I have substituted “Dawn Gallagher Murphy” for the words “the Member” and personal pronouns as appropriate for the words “the Applicant”.

Photo: Dawn Gallagher Murphy, all smiles at the TS Tech event in Newmarket. But she was inwardly seething that Newmarket Mayor John Taylor had been invited. Teena Bogner says Gallagher Murphy displayed "passive aggressive behaviour towards me" throughout the day. 

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The respected Polling Aggregator site 338Canada tells us Newmarket-Aurora's sitting MPP, Dawn Gallagher Murphy, has a 97% chance of holding on to the seat she first won in June 2022. 

The polling guru, Eric Grenier, says in today's projection there is an outside chance the Liberals could win in Newmarket-Aurora. But he puts the odds at less than 5%. The NDP and the Greens are not even rated as outside possibilities.

No polls are being conducted in Newmarket-Aurora itself. Grenier projects the result:

"using a proportional swing method based on the difference between the results of the last election and current polls. For example, if a party managed 20 per cent in a given region in the last election and is now polling at 40 per cent in that same region, the party's last election results in each riding in that region are doubled. This swing is applied to every party in each riding."

The election is now only eleven days away and Dawn Gallagher Murphy, stressed-out bully and hypocrite, will be returned to Queen's Park unless something wholly unexpected happens.

Tomorrow's leaders' debate could be a make or break.

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