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Tuesday, August 07, 2007

Questions Surround Rising Indiana GOP Star

ACCUSED OF SEXUALLY ASSAULTING ANOTHER MAN


The newly-elected president of the Young Republican National
Federation, Glenn Murphy,
http://www.news-tribune.net/clarkcounty/local_story_198100250.html has
stepped down as the group's president less than a month after being
elected to the post at the group's convention in Florida last month
amid a sex scandal involving him, which may prove as embarrassing to
the national Republican Party as the Mark Foley scandal did during
last year's congressional elections.

Murphy, who also serves as chairman of the Clark Co. Republicans, has
been viewed as a rising star in the Indiana and national GOP.

His consulting firm has advised congressional candidates like that of
former U.S. Rep. Mike Sodrel (R).

He is fond of using divisive wedge issues, such as gay marriage, to
promote his candidates.

Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels once said of Murphy:

"Glenn Murphy is one of the most well-respected Republican leaders in
Indiana. His media savvy and grassroots skills helped transform
Southeast Indiana from a Democrat stronghold to a Republican growth
area. He shoots for the 'impossible', and more often than not, he
succeeds. I wholeheartedly endorse Glenn Murphy for Chairman of the
Young Republican National Federation and his team for national
leadership."

In a shocking police report filed by the Clark Co. Sheriff's office,
Murphy is accused of sexually assaulting another man on July 29, 2007,
while he lay sleeping in his bed.
http://www.takingdownwords.com/taking_down_words/files/glennmurphy.pdf

The alleged assault of the 22-year-old man took place in the
Jeffersonville, Indiana home of his sister following a Young
Republican party in which both Murphy and the 22-year-old man had been
in attendance.

The victim's sister had urged both men to spend the night at her home
because of the amount of alcohol the two had consumed during the
party.

The victim awoke in the morning to find Murphy performing oral sex on
him according to the report.

When the victim asked Murphy what he was doing, he responded:

"He was holding his ***** with one hand and sucking my ***** with his
mouth."

The victim then pushed Murphy away, gathered his personal belongings
and left.

Murphy was later confronted with the charges by the victim's sister
according to the report.

The sister says Murphy admitted to her that he performed the sex act
on her brother.

Taking Down Words reports Murphy is being charged with criminal
deviate conduct, a Class B felony.

The police report also notes that Murphy was accused of committing a
very similar act on another man back in 1998.

It is unclear why Murphy was not prosecuted for the 1998 incident.

Murphy is shown in the photo above being interviewed during last
month's YR convention at which he was elected the organization's
president.

Murphy, whose mother emigrated from Hong Kong, was raised in southern
Indiana and was the first Republican in a Democrat family according to
Asian Week.

"At Indiana University, he majored in journalism and joined the
College Democrats. But he soon realized that the Republican Party’s
values were more in line with his own and promptly joined the College
Republicans."

"Parties and their names change, but your values will always remain
the same," he said.

"You have to remain true to your values."

After college, Murphy started a public relations firm, in addition to
establishing the Indiana Federation of Young Republicans, which grew
in two years to more than 200 members according to the Asian Week
story.

"At age 27, he became county chair of the Clark County (Indiana) GOP,
a post that he still holds."

At least at this moment.

When he was elected president of the YRs last month, he told his
hometown newspaper, “I will essentially be the mouthpiece and
effective leader for the tens of thousands of Young Republicans, 18 to
40, across the country.”
http://www.news-tribune.net/clarkcounty/local_story_198100250.html

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And there you have it. Another fabulous tale from that wonderful world
of Republican "Family Values."

Harry