Padawanbater2
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In early September 2017, Murphy, 64, admitted to an extramarital affair with Shannon Edwards, a 32 year old forensic psychologist. The affair came to light in the course of Edwards' divorce proceedings. On October 3, 2017, Murphy's hometown newspaper, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported that a January 5, 2017 text message from Edwards to Murphy included the statement, "[Y]ou have zero issue posting your pro-life stance all over the place when you had no issue asking me to abort our unborn child just last week when we thought that was one of the options" in the midst of an unfounded pregnancy scare. In the same article, the Post-Gazette published a June 8, 2017 memorandum from Murphy's chief of staff to Murphy complaining of the congressman's repeated harassment of staff and his "hostile, erratic, unstable, angry, aggressive and abusive behavior" which led to an "inability to hire and retain competent staff, abysmal office morale." The memo also accused Murphy of dangerous distracted driving during a heavy thunderstorm with staff members in his car.
Murphy announced his resignation on October 5, 2017, effective October 21, 2017.