An explosive story in this morning’s Newmarket Era paints Newmarket-Aurora’s Progressive Conservative MPP, Dawn Gallagher Murphy, as a strutting tyrant presiding over a toxic work environment. 
The exposé, written by the respected senior journalist Lisa Queen, gives details of a complaint against the MPP filed with the Ontario Labour Relations Board by her one-time Office Manager Teena Bogner, a former President of the Newmarket Taxpayers Advocacy Group (NTAG).
Sacked
Bogner started working for the MPP on 9 April 2024 and learned on 10 June 2024 that she was to be sacked.
Bogner says Gallagher Murphy’s behaviour was “erratic and hostile” with the MPP routinely making derogatory comments about people. She said the work environment was so toxic it affected her health.
The details are here.
As it happens, I’ve been getting emails since early August 2024 from an employee at Ontario’s Legislative Assembly passing on detailed information about Gallagher Murphy and what she gets up to. On 4 August 2024 I was told she “bullies and harasses” her staff. And that she is:
“loathed in the PC caucus.”
and
“She has nothing good to say about anyone. What she calls the MPs and mayors is not worthy of repeating. She is a horrible person.”
Behind the Mask
This is pretty strong stuff (and there’s lots more of it in a similar vein). I’m not posting information that alleges improper behaviour and names individuals.
There are laws on defamation.
But the facts as reported in the Newmarket Era chime with what I’ve been told quite separately.
I think that says something about the kind of person Dawn Gallagher Murphy really is, behind the mask.
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Update on 19 December 2024: From Newmarket Today: Fired employee accuses Newmarket-Aurora MPP of toxic behaviour. The hearing is scheduled for February 2025.
