The guy is pathological, and the questions about his goon squad just keep coming.
Miller gave interviews to Fox and CNN on Monday. He told Fox, "I might also note that the middle school itself required us by a contract for a campaign, required us to have a security team." He told CNN, "There was a -- a private security team that was required. We had to hire them because the school required that as a term in their lease."
But district spokeswoman Heidi Embley said that wasn't true.
"We do not require users to hire security," she said. Renters must only have a security plan to protect users and the school itself, she said, and can resolve the issues with "monitors."
Then there's the whole issue of that "secuirty," provided by the army surplus/security detail company Drop Zone (which until yesterday had an expired security license, making their actions even more questionable). Turns out that some of their guards could be facing discipline, because they're active duty soldiers.
The soldiers, Spc. Tyler Ellingboe, 22, and Sgt. Alexander Valdez, 31, are assigned to the 3rd Maneuver Enhancement Brigade at Fort Richardson. Maj. Bill Coppernoll, the public affairs officer for the Army in Alaska, said the two soldiers did not have permission from their current chain of command to work for the Drop Zone, but the Army was still researching whether previous company or brigade commanders authorized their employment.
The Army allows off-duty soldiers to take outside employment if the job doesn't interfere with their readiness, doesn't risk their own injury and doesn't negatively affect the "good order" and discipline of their unit, Coppernoll said.
Yeah, I'm thinking once this video , in which the goons threaten to detain other journalists trying to talk to the detained Alaska Dispatch editor Tony Hopfinger, starts circulating the "good order" and discipline of the soldiers' unit might be negatively affected.
And all Miller had to do was answer a simple question about his previous employment. Lucky for his opponent Scott McAdams, dodging that one question has led to a full week of very bad news about Joe Miller, and the more the story unfolds, the worse it gets.