MS. MURRAY: Where Are Your Endorsements?

Dear Ms. Murray, Your website and you yourself tell us about all of thewonderful accomplishments of your career. You speak of all of the powerful connections you have with important people. Didn't you ever have "photo-ops"? Pictures of you standing proudly in front of all the museums and cultural centers you built? Where are the photographs of your powerful friends? Did you lose them with your credit card receipts? If you have done all the wonderful things you claim, where are your endorsements from your high powered friends in Kentucky? Why have none of them shown up for your campaign events? What about former Mayor and former Congressman Scotty Baesler. A well-respected Kentucky politician? He's retired and Lexington's not that far away. You were his loyal legislative aide for almost ten years? His name is all over your website? Why haven't we heard from him? Don't we voters deserve to know his opinion of you and all the projects you worked on? Won't he return your calls? How about Pam Miller, former mayor of Lexington? You worked closely with her when she was Vice Mayor? She, like you, is a loyal democrat? Where are her best wishes? How about Jim Newberry, the current Mayor of Lexington? Also a democrat. You worked him on so many City projects. He knows your reputation as well as anyone in Lexington. Why hasn't he endorsed you? And how about the UK Basketball Museum, you take all the credit for in your resume? Why hasn't the great former UK basketball star and director of the museum endorsed you? Where's that phone number? Oh, wait. That museum is gone. It went broke, doomed by your inflated revenue projections and poor "master plan." And Jim Lemaster, former UK No. 12, is out of a job. What about the Director of the Lexington Cultural Center that you take credit for on your website? Give him a call. Surely he is grateful for all your fine work? What's that? There is no cultural center? The city of Lexington was forced to build a County Courthouse on the site of your Art & Culture District because it sat vacant for so many years? Hmm. Well then. What about the fully remodelled Lyric Theater that you promised the African-American community? The place where the Temptations, Cab Calloway, Duke Ellington, Sarah Vaughn, Ella Fitzgerald, the Ink Spots, and Redd Foxx all performed. You, as the Mayor's Director of Special Projects, took that building over by eminent domain, didn't you? How about a picture standing in front of it as a true example of all the great things you are going to do in Portsmouth? What? You mean it's still sitting there vacant 20 years after you promised to restore it? Surely you have some endorsement. Surely you don't expect the Cityof Portsmouth to just take your word for everything you claim to have accomplished, do you? No. You don't think we're just a bunch of dumb poverty-stricken Appalachians, do you? Oh, wait. That's right. You do have two endorsements, don't you? This guy and his cousin.