Daniel McMurray

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  Elections Board dismissed complaint against college... - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 5/22/2003    Last Visited: 5/23/2003  

  George's attorney filed the complaint last year trying to compel Daniel McMurray to reveal whether anyone paid for the challenge to George's nomination papers.It claimed he had failed to file required disclosures about his work and requested a probe into whether he violated state election laws.
  
  Not long after the complaint was filed, Sen.
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  McMurray touched off a political controversy when he filed his complaint last year.Then a college student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, he refused to detail for the board how he afforded to pay a handwriting expert $175 an hour to check the signatures on George's nomination papers.
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  McMurray is no longer listed as a student at UW-Madison and did not have a number listed in Madison.

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  Events leading up to George's removal from ballot |... - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 8/26/2002    Last Visited: 8/26/2002  

  July 12: Daniel McMurray, 21, filed a challenge to George's nomination papers claiming dozens of the signatures are invalid.He asked the Elections Board to throw them out and remove George from the ballot.McMurray, a University of Wisconsin student, hired a handwriting expert at $175 an hour to review the nomination papers.

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  Green Bay Press-Gazette - Chvala paid for George... - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 8/27/2002    Last Visited: 8/27/2002  

  Daniel McMurray, a student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, filed a complaint July 12 regarding George's nomination papers with the Elections Board.McMurray refused to answer questions from the board about whether anyone paid his expenses.McMurray did not immediately return a message left Tuesday.
  
  Chvala said in his statement that he decided to fund the effort when he was tipped off that George had filed barely more than the 2,000 signatures needed and that hundreds of the signatures appeared to be forgeries.
  
  He declined to tell the newspaper who brought the issue to his attention, but said it was not a state employee or anyone linked to George's opponents in the Sept. 10 primary.
  
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  McMurray was driving in a car with a Barrett bumper sticker when he asked people whose names were on George's papers to sign affidavits that they had not signed the papers.
  
  The car belonged to Joel Gratz, a former Chvala aide and current Senate staffer, who said he was helping McMurray without the Barrett campaign's knowledge.

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  JS Online: 8 more deny signing petition - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 7/18/2002    Last Visited: 7/18/2002  

  The disclosures widened the controversy over whether George's campaign compiled the 2,000 voters' signatures required to be on the fall ballot - and supported the complaint of a University of Wisconsin-Madison student, Daniel McMurray, who formally challenged the accuracy of some of the signatures.
  
  The state Elections Board was scheduled today to decide whether the veteran Democratic state senator should remain on the fall ballot as a candidate for governor.It will require votes by five of the eight Elections Board members to strike George's name from the ballot, a former board chairman said Wednesday - a vote he suggested was unlikely.
  
  The Elections Board could also ask state or local prosecutors to begin a criminal investigation of fraud, since forging someone's name is a crime under state law.
  
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  McMurray, 21, remained unavailable Wednesday, although a co-worker said he will make a statement to the board when it considers his complaint.

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  News Story - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 7/20/2002    Last Visited: 7/20/2002  

  University of Wisconsin student Daniel McMurray filed a complaint against the Gubernatorial candidate alleging falsified signatures on George's papers.The senator listed about 2,100 names on July 9th with the elections board.McMurray claims many of those names were copied or made up.Seven people listed in the complaint thus far say they didn't sign George's papers

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  The Badger Herald Online - George denied - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 9/8/2002    Last Visited: 9/8/2002  

  After University of Wisconsin student Daniel McMurray accused George of fraud, district attorneys found his nomination papers contained 221 forged or invalid signatures.

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  The Daily Press - Ashland, Wisconsin - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 8/1/2002    Last Visited: 8/1/2002  

  Did anyone aid University of Wisconsin student Daniel McMurray in financing the first challenge to those papers?
  
  McMurray paid both a handwriting expert and notary in challenging the signatures on George's papers.
  
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  Tommy Thompson, has asked the elections board to formally rule on whether or not McMurray filed the complaint for a "political purpose."
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  If the board finds the complaint was for political purposes then campaign finance rules apply and McMurray must disclose his funding sources if he paid more than $25 on the complaint.
  
  McMurray was helped in filing the complaint by a former aide to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Chvala who is also a campaign volunteer for U.S. Rep.

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  The Green Bay News-Chronicle Online - Wisconsin news - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 7/24/2002    Last Visited: 7/24/2002  

  University of Wisconsin-Madison student Daniel McMurray challenged the validity of George's signatures.He hired a handwriting expert who said some of the signatures were written by the same person.
  
  George needs 2,000 signatures to run for governor.Forging nomination papers is a felony under state law.
  
  On the Net:State Elections Board: http://elections.state.wi.us/

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  The Green Bay News-Chronicle Online - Wisconsin news - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 7/18/2002    Last Visited: 7/18/2002  

  University of Wisconsin-Madison student Daniel McMurray, 21, filed the formal complaint with the state Elections Board to disqualify signatures on George's nomination papers that he alleges are incomplete, questionable, illegible or could not be verified.The board will consider the challenge Thursday.
  
  McMurray asked the Elections Board to take George off the ballot if removing the questionable names leaves George short of the 2,000 signatures required to run for governor.
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  McMurray said in the complaint that 15 others listed as having signed George's nomination papers told him they did not sign them.
  
  That includes David Tojek, 65, of Milwaukee, who said he supports Barrett in the governor's race.
  
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  McMurray did not return repeated telephone messages from The Associated Press seeking comment.
  
  Barrett, Doyle and Falk's campaigns said they had no connection to McMurray and he was not employed by them nor listed as a volunteer in any of their records.
  
  Schwid, Jessup and Tojek said McMurray did not tell them whether he was connected with any political campaigns or parties or his motivation for challenging signatures in George's nomination papers.
  
  On the Net:State Elections Board: http://elections.state.wi.us/

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