Joe Miller faces $50,000 fine for failing to file his personal finance disclosure form. I believe his definition of transparency is the same as his puppeteer Sarah Palin's.

From Think Progress:

Sarah Palin-backed Republican Senate candidate Joe Miller (R-AK), who defeated incumbent Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) in the primary in August, skyrocketed to power partially by demanding more transparency and ethics in Washington. In his 12-point campaign promise, Miller says he will “end czar layer of government” that “clouds transparency in government.” Miller’s campaign endorsement page features Alaskans praising him for having higher ethics and a greater commitment to transparency.

However, ThinkProgress contacted the Senate Ethics Committee and the Senate Office of Public Records yesterday and discovered that Miller has not filed a personal finance disclosure as a candidate for the U.S. Senate, as required by law. According to Title I of the Ethics in Government Act of 1978 and Senate Rule 41.1, candidates for U.S. Senate must file a disclosure form within 30 days of raising or spending $5,000. According to the Federal Elections Committee, Miller raised well over $5,000 as early as April of this year. Asked again today by ThinkProgress if Miller has filed his personal finance disclosure, or has contacted the Senate Office of Public Records with any request for an extension to file, a staffer with the Office responded:

“We haven’t received anything from him. He hasn’t sent us anything.”

According to law, “failure to file or report information required to be reported by section 102 of the Act may subject” Miller — a Yale Law School graduate — to a “civil penalty of not more than $50,000 and to disciplinary action by the Select Committee on Ethics and/or any other appropriate authority.” As of today, Miller is at least five months late with his disclosures.

It is one ethical violation after another with this guy!  This cannot be the person that Alaskans want to send to Washington to represent our great state. 

If you are living in Alaska, please make sure that you are going to vote in November, and tell your friends to register to vote as well.  And then drive them t othe poling booth if you have too!

The only way such a terribly flawed candidate like this can be elected is if those of us with half a brain stay home and let it happen.

This is your chance to send somebody to the Senate to represent you who....well who REALLY represents you!  This is our chance to show the world we have learned our lesson and will NEVER elect another Sarah Palin type to an important political office.  For me personally that is all the motivation I require to get me to the polls at the crack of dawn.

Won't you please join me?