From today’s Daily Pulp in South Florida New Times:
Finally we have the latest Sun-Sentinel story on Ann Murray and the N-word controversy. It was headlined: “Will N-word fury define Ann Murray’s career?”
First, what “career”? She was a bus driver turned supervisor who by some strange twist of fate was elected to the school board. Since her election, she has only blended in seamlessly to the general inept and corrupt state of the school board. On top of that, her right-hand man is a convicted felon (though I hear that George Bograkos has resigned from his Murray-appointed posts on key school board committees after I wrote about it last month).
Second, in the article Murray is supposedly “at a loss to explain why the controversy has come up now, three years before she will have to face voters again at the polls.” Let me clear that up. After the Bograkos blog post and Murray’s incredibly ignorant response to the grand jury report (which she admitted she didn’t even read), I realized that this woman wasn’t fit to be in elected office. I figured there was more so I shook the trees and a source I can’t name told me there were rumors about a racial slur. I tracked it down and wrote about it now because I’m a journalist, not a political strategist.
Third, the article says that “Murray said she’s at a loss to explain why the controversy has come up now, three years before she will have to face voters again at the polls.”
I’ll answer that question now. I broke that story because I found that Murray was a piss-poor school board member. After the Bograkos story, I knew there had to be more, so I shook the trees. Sources who I can’t name told me she was written up for a racial slur and I tracked it down. I wrote about it now because I’m not a political opponent of Murray, I’m a journalist and I don’t sit on stories for elections.
Third, Murray recounts in the article “one of the most difficult conversations she’s ever had.” What is it? Why it’s telling her grown children about the fact that she used a racial slur while working for the school board. From the article:
Before she issued a public apology for using the N-word in front of co-workers four years ago, Murray, 68, a member of the Broward School Board, had to admit it to her five grown children.
“It was the most regretful position I’ve ever put myself in,” Murray said.
Oh please! Believe me, if Murray is dropping the N-bomb at work in front of several black employees, those five adult children have heard her use the word before, likely many many times. Hopefully they didn’t pick up that habit themselves.
