After a judge ruled Saturday that Joe Miller's personnel records from his employment with the Fairbanks North Star Borough must be released, Miller admitted to at least some of what is expected to be in those files.
Ethics took center stage Sunday during a debate in which Alaska Senate hopeful Joe Miller said he was suspended for or docked three days' pay for violating ethics policy while working as a local government attorney in 2008. This acknowledgment came less than two weeks after Miller told Alaska reporters he'd no longer answer questions about his past or background after alleging his personnel file from his time as an attorney for the Fairbanks North Star Borough had been illegally leaked.
fter former borough Mayor Jim Whitaker said Miller was nearly fired for using government computers in a failed effort to oust the state GOP chairman in 2008, Miller told CNN he had violated ethics policy but said it was unrelated to his leaving the job in 2009 or to the issues of the current Senate race.
On Sunday, a day after a judge in Fairbanks ordered the borough release Miller's personnel records, Miller said he had participated in a private poll during his lunch hour. He said it was a mistake that he's learned from. His attorney said no decision has been made on whether to fight the records' release.
Apparently, he didn't learn enough from that reprimand to gain a new appreciation for the value of transparency. He was months late in complying with election law in filling his personal finance disclosure. He refused to talk to the press about this--or any other--"personal" issue about his on-the-job ethics, spurring the whole private security detaining a journalist fiasco, and two weeks of extremely negative publicity.
Which gives Scott McAdams an opening to be the out of the fray, Alaska focused candidate. Help him get the word out in this critical last week.