Miller Was Caught Lying in Past Job
The Wall Street Journal reports:
Alaska Senate candidate Joe Miller, while previously working as a local-government attorney, admitted to improperly using his co-workers’ computers to participate in political activity and admitted to initially lying when he was asked about it, according to documents released Tuesday by his former employer.
Mr. Miller, the Republican running against Democrat Scott McAdams and write-in candidate Lisa Murkowski, worked for seven years as a part-time lawyer for the Fairbanks North Star Borough.
According to one co-worker’s account among the released documents, Mr. Miller used his computer without asking and later told the co-worker he “went to a site to vote in a poll” and had used several other co-workers’ computers, too, “so that an opinion poll would have different URLs.”
A Miller spokesman didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment on the documents. Mr. Miller previously admitted he was disciplined for using borough computers for politicking. A borough is the Alaskan equivalent of a county.
“I lied about accessing all of the computers. I then admitted about accessing the computers, but lied about what I was doing. Finally, I admitted what I did,” Mr. Miller wrote in a March 2008 email, among the documents released Tuesday.
The records were released after several news organizations sued the borough for records about the Republican candidate’s misuse of government computers and the circumstances of his departure from the job a year later.
On Saturday, a superior-court judge ruled that the borough must release most documents. Some records were omitted or redacted because they had to do with health issues and other private matters.
Written notes from around that time, apparently documenting Mr. Miller’s verbal admission, include the line: “I was an ass. I was beyond stupid.” The candidate was suspended from work for three days for his wrongdoing and was on probation for six months, the documents show.
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