Joe Miller lied to both CNN reporter John King and his own father about accessing borough computers on his lunch hour. He did not have a lunch hour! Update!

From the Alaska Dispatch:
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.

So now I think I am beginning to understand why Miller is so freaked out about the public seeing his personnel records.  He was using those computers when most of the legal team, of which he was a part, were out of the building having lunch.  If what he did was "petty" why did he not want any of the other legal staff to see him doing it?

Jill Burke wonders the same thing.

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.

Obviously Miller knew that what he was doing was wrong, and possibly illegal, or else why lie to his own father about it? And remember he also confessed to his dad that "He emptied the cache files on the computers so the users wouldn’t know what he had done." That is not a thing that somebody with a clear conscious would even think to do. Miller knew what he was doing was wrong, and even then was worried about getting caught.

I believe it should be clear to everybody in our state that we need to see Miller's personnel file just as soon as possible!  And if you are a registered voter who was thinking of staying home on November 2nd, what more do you need to know about this guy to get you up of your ass and vote to keep him out of the Senate?

(Huge hat tip to Ella.  Thanks very much for your help!)

Update: It looks like Miller has once again had a reporter mistreated at yet another PUBLIC event. Here is ADN reporter Julia O'Malley's reaction after being summarily ejected from the "Meet and Greet:"

I walked to my car in front of the Indian restaurant next door, and sat in the driver's seat. I hadn't done anything but carry a notebook into the room and the campaign decided I was a threat. I wanted to understand their candidate, but all I got was a door shut in my face.

So now Miller is afraid of  and a clearly non-threatening young woman like Julia O'Malley?  And THIS is the guy who wants to represent the tough, independent people of Alaska in Washington D.C.?