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butterfly77 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-23-10 09:57 PM
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Joe Miller runs scared of a simple question..
http://wonkette.com/427531/wonkette-exclusive-joe-miller-runs-screeching-from-reporters-very-basic-question


Alaskan Senate hopeful and semi-bearded teabagger Joe Miller literally ran away from a question about his disabled-veteran status during last night’s “Meet and Greet” session in Anchorage. In a roomful of 50 people — most supporters and well wishers — Miller was asked to identify his service-connected disability and his official “percentage disabled.” Panic swept over Miller’s sweaty face.

Looking away from your correspondent, Miller yelped to no one in particular, “We’ve gotta go!” He then pointed to his wife and said, “Let’s move!” The Millers hustled to the back of the vacant strip mall office next to the pizza place and surrounded themselves with campaign staffers.

This time, Miller’s phalanx of creepy skinheads dressed as Secret Service agents — last seen assaulting and restraining a local journalist — were nowhere around. Your correspondent was able to escape unscathed.

A West Point graduate who served in the first Gulf War, Miller boasts of his military record in his radio and teevee ads, yet refuses to discuss the nature or the degree of his service-connected disabilities; he receives monthly tax-free payments for life as compensation. If Miller is classified as 30% or more disabled, he receives additional payments for each of his nine dependents. This Veterans Administration benefits chart shows that Miller could conceivably be bringing in over $4,000 a month, tax free, depending on his disability rating.

He needn’t report or declare this income. What are the disabilities for wh


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Angry Dragon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-23-10 10:04 PM
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1. I guess he feels it is okay to lie to get a job
I feel he is just a self serving idiot and needs to be thrown to the ditch.
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Skittles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-23-10 10:38 PM
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2. sounds like another Tea Party hypocrite
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butterfly77 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-24-10 01:32 PM
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5. Seems as though..
he is benefitting from the government in so many ways,how in the hell did he think that know one would investigate him?
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katanalori Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-23-10 11:08 PM
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3. from Progressive Alaska blog:
Philip Munger said...

Call Matt Felling at KTVA TV. He's interviewing all three senate candidates next week and is asking for questions. Some of us are encouraging him to ask Joe about his "disability."

Matthew T. Felling
Anchor/Reporter
KTVA -- CBS 11 Anchorage
p) 907-273-3157
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Dont_Bogart_the_Pretzel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-23-10 11:15 PM
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4. Maybe his disability is in his head... like his brain.
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