Morgan Murray (Boone Town Council, North Carolina, candidate 2025)

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Morgan Murray

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Nonpartisan

Candidate, Boone Town Council

Elections and appointments

Next election

November 4, 2025

Military

Service / branch

U.S. Army Reserve

Years of service

1986 - 1994

Personal

Religion

Quaker

Contact

Campaign website

Morgan Murray is running for election to the Boone Town Council in North Carolina. He is on the ballot in the general election on November 4, 2025.^[source]

Murray completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2025. Click here to read the survey answers.

Biography

Morgan Murray provided the following biographical information via Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey on October 7, 2025:

• Birth date: May 16, 1968
• High school: Saint Andrew's School
• Military service: United States Army Reserve, 1986-1994
• Gender: Male
• Religion: Quaker
• Incumbent officeholder: No
• Campaign slogan: The Rent Is Too Damn High
• Campaign website

Elections

General election

The general election will occur on November 4, 2025.

General election for Boone Town Council (3 seats)

Todd Carter, Morgan Murray, Virginia Roseman, and Adrian Tait are running in the general election for Boone Town Council on November 4, 2025.

		Candidate
	Submit photo	Todd Carter (Nonpartisan)
	Submit photo	Morgan Murray (Nonpartisan)
	Submit photo	Virginia Roseman (Nonpartisan)
	Submit photo	Adrian Tait (Nonpartisan)

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Who are you? Tell us about yourself.

I am Morgan Murray. I first came to Boone in 1993, as an App student living in East Dorm Subfloor. I worked a number of minimum wage jobs, and started a couple of small businesses. Like everyone else who lives here, I've been forced to move away multiple times, to Asheville and Raleigh, in order to make a living. I was living in the Jailhouse on 9-11. I was living on King Street when my son, Blue, was born.

I currently own Blue's Brews on King Street, and work, mostly remotely, for the Biltmore Estate. Despite having a good job, and a business, I can't afford to live in Boone. And neither can anyone else who works here. Students are being systematically robbed and stigmatized by a Town government that treats them like second class citizens. Because of Byzantine ordinances and punitive 'impact fees', it is impossible for a local person to open a business. The businesses that do open are tourist-priced country-club establishments that neither students nor working people can afford.

The people running the Town of Boone have worked diligently at turning Boone into a country-club boutique retirement community. It is time for us to take it back.

Please list below 3 key messages of your campaign. What are the main points you want voters to remember about your goals for your time in office?

• The rent is too damn high.

  The rent in Boone is at least the second highest in North Carolina. Every person who rents in Boone is paying, on average, more than $300 more per month than they should be. That is an additional $300/month over the already sky-high effects of the national economy. That additional $300/month is because of the deliberate policy of the Town of Boone to artificially strangle the supply of housing, specifically and especially, for students. For students, over four years, that means they either are $15,000 more in student debt than they should be, or they, or their parents, have $15,000 less to start them out in life than they should have.

  For people who work for a living, it means they can’t afford to live in Boone.
• Boone is a working class college town. We need a Town government that advocates for students and the people who work here, rather than exclusively for the rich people living on the hill.
• Boone must become a democracy. In a town of people almost all unhappy with the local government, running elections unopposed and with 5% turnout is unacceptable. Democracy is our national tradition, and freedom, our birthright. Democracy is the process by which free people decide the issues on which they disagree. Town elections should be moved to even number years, along with every other election in the country, instead of hidden on the odd years. Within a month of each election, there must be no restrictions on campaign speech, signs or public displays. That is how almost every other town and city in the United States has done it over the past two and a half centuries.

What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about?

All politics are local. If we want to make a better world for our children, the best place to start is here and now. Boone is a working class college town. Or, it was, and needs to be again.
Instead of silencing our citizens, and working in the shadows, our issues must be debated and decided by the residents of Boone in the open.

What characteristics or principles are most important for an elected official?

Empathy. The most important characteristic of any person in a democratic government must be empathy for others.

“Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?”
37 Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’[
38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’

40 All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”

What was your very first job? How long did you have it?

Two weeks after my 18nth birthday, and four days after I graduated High School, I was in Fort Leonard Wood Missouri, going to basic training as a combat engineer.

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