“I tried to forget all of it because it was so horrible,’ said one former Murphy employee. ‘Screaming was an everyday thing. The manipulation and the mind games. … Everybody in that office was depressed.” The staunchly anti-abortion congressional member Tim Murphy was forced to retire after sending texts advising his mistress to get an abortion. But Politico suggests that the scandal was only the tipping point. Beneath all the hypocrisy was a really bad boss.