Editing Murphy, Texas (section)

==Government==
[[File:Murphy City Council (March 2025).jpg|thumb|Murphy City Council]]
The city of Murphy adopted a Home Rule Charter in 2003, and the city's power is vested in a council of elected individuals who regulate, legislate, and appoint other officials, such as the City Manager, who heads the executive branch. The city council members as of 2020 are Scott Bradley (Mayor), Jene Butler, Jennifer Berthiaume, Andrew Chase, Sarah Fincannon, Ken Oltmann, and Elizabeth Abraham. Scott Bradley was elected mayor in 2017. Aretha Adams is the City Manager, who was appointed to this position in February 2024.<ref>https://www.murphytx.org/280/City-Manager</ref>

=== Politics ===
Murphy, like the rest of [[Collin County, Texas|Collin County]], was solidly [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] throughout the early 2000s. Still, it has shifted significantly towards the [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic Party]] in recent elections, culminating in Democrat [[Joe Biden]]'s narrow victory in the city in [[2020 United States presidential election|2020]].
{| class="wikitable" style="float:center; margin:1em; font-size:95%;"
|+Murphy city vote 
by party in Presidential elections<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=Election Results|url=https://www.collincountytx.gov:443/elections/election_results/Pages/result_archive.aspx|access-date=2021-05-30|website=www.collincountytx.gov|language=en}}</ref>
!Year
![[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]]
![[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]
![[Third party (United States)|Third Parties]]
|-
| align="center" {{Party shading/Democratic}} |[[2020 United States presidential election in Texas|2020]]
| align="center" {{Party shading/Democratic}} |'''51.04%''' ''5,518''
| align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}} |47.36% ''5,120''
| align="center" {{Party shading/Independent}} |1.60% ''173''
|-
| align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}} |[[2016 United States presidential election in Texas|2016]]
| align="center" {{Party shading/Democratic}} |43.73% ''3,575''
| align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}} |'''51.94%''' ''4,246''
| align="center" {{Party shading/Independent}} |4.33% ''354''
|-
| align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}} |[[2012 United States presidential election in Texas|2012]]
| align="center" {{Party shading/Democratic}} |36.12% ''2,460''
| align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}} |'''62.32%''' ''4,244''
| align="center" {{Party shading/Independent}} |1.56% ''106''
|-
| align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}} |[[2008 United States presidential election in Texas|2008]]
| align="center" {{Party shading/Democratic}} |37.80% ''2,787''
| align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}} |'''60.98%''' ''4,497''
| align="center" {{Party shading/Independent}} |1.22% ''90''
|-
| align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}} |[[2004 United States presidential election in Texas|2004]]
| align="center" {{Party shading/Democratic}} |28.19% ''1,322''
| align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}} |'''71.00%''' ''3,329''
| align="center" {{Party shading/Independent}} |0.81% ''38''
|-
| align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}} |[[2000 United States presidential election in Texas|2000]]
| align="center" {{Party shading/Democratic}} |23.14% ''323''
| align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}} |'''74.57%''' ''1,041''
| align="center" {{Party shading/Independent}} |2.29% ''32''
|}

===NBC Dateline deal===
The Murphy police department made a deal with "Dateline" in 2006 to allow NBC camera crews to record stings of alleged Internet sexual predators and to let people hired by "Dateline" actually set up and run the sting. The production ended tragically when one of the alleged offenders, [[Louis Conradt]], an assistant district attorney from a neighboring county, committed suicide when [[Dateline NBC]] cameras showed up at his home in the company of Murphy police after the man failed to show up to the sting house.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=4956588&page=1|title='To Catch a Predator' Police Chief Fired|last=Walter|first=Vic|date=29 May 2008|website=ABC News|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171019121038/https://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=4956588&page=1|archive-date=19 October 2017|url-status=dead|access-date=24 July 2019}}</ref>