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More on Miller's admission of politicking on borough time
Jill Burke | Oct 22, 2010
As issues remain about what was going through Senate candidate Joe Miller's mind when he surreptitiously accessed his coworkers' computers and did something from them to try to influence state politics -- and why he went to such great lengths for something he himself has characterized as "petty" -- a new question has come up. Did he fudge the truth in an interview this week on CNN?
When CNN host John King asked Miller on Monday if it was fair for the public "to look at your history as a taxpayer-paid attorney, anything and everything you did, while you were on a public payroll as a public servant," Miller responded: "Well, the event in question is something that happened on my time off. So it was during the lunch hour. So, frankly, there is not a direct correlation to that."
But Miller didn't have a lunch hour.
Miller's routine at the Fairbanks North Star Borough, where he worked as a part-time attorney, was to work the afternoon shift, from about 2 p.m. to 6 p.m., said Sallie Stuvek, the borough's human resources director.
"We don't provide lunch hours unless somebody works five or more hours per day," she said.
A review of Miller's e-mail traffic, obtained by Alaska Dispatch, reinforces Stuvek's assessment of Miller's schedule. Most outgoing e-mails sent from his borough e-mail account routinely occured in the afternoon.
At the time the computer incident took place, Miller and another part-time attorney shared an office and the other attorney worked a morning shift, from 8 a.m. to noon, Stuvek said. The goal was to avoid staff overlapping hours. From noon to 1 p.m., most of the legal department is out for lunch and offices are locked, she said.
Stuvek also said that if the attorneys work outside their usual shift, they are asked to let their supervisor know.
On March 12, 2008 -- the date in question -- Miller sent an e-mail to a colleague in the legal department saying he would be in before lunch. It was time-stamped 10:07 a.m. and originated from an e-mail address affiliated with his private law firm.
Records already released relating to Miller's personnel file show the borough was concerned about some issue that same day. That something was significant enough that the borough would later ask its information technology expert to pull Web activity reports on four employees covering the time period beginning less than an hour and a half after Miller said he'd be in early.
According to the borough, it is true that the computer use would have happened outside of Miller's regularly scheduled paid shift.
Why would Miller come in to work early only to take a lunch break? (The first e-mail sent from his borough e-mail account March 12 doesn't occur until 12:41 p.m..) Why couldn't he have worked on the political activities from the non-borough computer at which he was presumably working earlier in the day? What, exactly, did he do? How far was he willing to go -- breaking borough ethics policies -- to get what he wanted in a heated political battle? If it's truly not a big deal, why not just let Alaskans know about it and allow them to decide for themselves what, if anything, it means?
The Miller campaign didn't respond to questions.
In the CNN interview, Miller suggested Alaskans don't need to know and that the media's quest for answers is a distraction to the issues of this election.
"This is an attempt, again, to take away from the voters an opportunity to see where we're at as a state, an opportunity to take a choice that's not based on the past, which is the Scott McAdams-Lisa Murkowski path, but one that's designed to look at these petty issues and say, that really is what matters to voters," Miller told King. "And I don't think it's fair to Alaskans."
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