Alaska Tea Partier Joe Miller Tells Truth About His Lying.
The speculation is over. Alaska’s Tea Party U.S. Senate candidate, Joe Miller, in a neck and neck battle with Senate incumbent Lisa Murkowski, lied about his ethics violations for misuse of government computers while employed by the Fairbanks North Star Borough (FNSB) (for background see yesterday’s TWSA! post). The documents, released yesterday pursuant to a court order, revealed a trail of deception that for 4 months Miller fought to delay, for reasons no longer obscure. Will it cost him on November 2nd?
The personnel file documents released by court order today were damning, and disclosed more ethical lapses than was expected. The Alaska Dispatch reported:
“I lied about accessing all of the computers,” Miller confesses in one e-mail contained in 60 pages of documents ordered released by a Fairbanks court. “I then admitted about accessing the computers, but lied about what I was doing.” [Italics added]
What Miller was doing in 2008, according to his admissions, was getting onto the computers of co-workers, going to the Joe Miller website, and then voting as others on a Miller poll on whether the Republican party should dump state chairman Randy Ruedrich. Miller, then-Gov. Sarah Palin and others were trying to oust Ruedrich but failed. After former Fairbanks borough mayor Jim Whitaker first revealed Miller was involved in “proxy voting” on Ruedrich’s fate, the party chairman defended the candidate, saying Whitaker’s claim had to be mistaken because there was no vote taking place.
In March 2008, for these ethics code violations, Miller was placed on administrative leave for 15 days and suspended without pay for three days.
