Article content The statue in Emily Murphy Park was discovered vandalized with red paint, the word ‘racist’ also written in red, Tuesday, weeks after the downtown statue of Sir Winston Churchill was slopped with red paint. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser. Emily Murphy statue splashed with red paint, comes weeks after Churchill statue vandalized in same fashion Back to video The Edmonton Arts Council had the Emily Murphy statue cleaned within two hours at a cost of roughly $1,200. The council also cleaned up Churchill last month. It was in August of 1927 that Emily Murphy invited four women — Nellie McClung, Irene Parlby, Louise McKinney and Henrietta Muir Edwards — to her house in Garneau. There, they drafted and signed a letter to the governor general of Canada, asking the Supreme Court to rule on whether women could legally be appointed to the Canadian Senate.