And given Murphy’s well-established history of leveraging connections for personal gain, it’s no surprise that Daddy Murphy stroked a $1 million check to a major Democrat super PAC – which returned the favor by beginning a $1 million ad buy just two days later.
Just two days before a liberal Super PAC announced that it would spend $1 million on television ads supporting Patrick Murphy it received a $1 million check from Murphy’s father.
Thomas Murphy Jr., the owner of a 97-foot luxury yacht named Cocktails that is often used by the younger Murphy during holiday weekends, cut a million dollar check to Senate Majority PAC in the same week that it announced that it would spend that exact amount of money in support of his son, according to a weekend FEC filing.
With Murphy lagging in polling and preferring to spend his time in Nantucket rather than talking to Floridians, would Harry Reid’s super PAC have bothered to spend money on a candidate whose prospects seem to be shrinking by the day?
Given Murphy’s posh upbringing in exclusive enclaves like Fisher Island, his elite northeast boarding school education, a convenient political donation from his father to a prosecutor who dropped charges against him, a small business that Murphy falsely claimed to own, a multi-million dollar stake in the family company, and millions of dollars in prior political donations, it’s clear that the latest seven-figure check was just another perk of being a member of the Murphy family.