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Miller admits he was disciplined by borough over computer use

Chappy said:
No, he didn't lie about it during his campaign unless you consider lying by omission to be lying. He only acknowledged the written reprimand he received from his fellow office workers when the information was finally released to the public.
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You mean that a politician didn't come out and volunteer details about his past bad behavior? Wow, that's unprecedented.

As to the seriousness of the incident, consider the nature of the behavior: albeit the underlying error was a foolish attempt to interfere with an online poll which he then attempted to cover up with a lie, and, when that was disproved, another lie, and, after that was disposed of, another lie and an accusation that far from being his fault it was the victims of his actions who were at fault. He finally confessed when he all his lies were proven false.

It was a minor incident that Joe Miller made into a major incident with a written reprimand. He didn't get fired but he didn't last much longer in that office either. I doubt he was missed.

I think the whole incident speaks to the kind of man Joe Miller is. He's definitely not the kind of guy you want around unsecured cookie jars and Washington is just chock full of unsecured cookie jars.
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He's not the kind of guy that you want around unsecured cookie jars because he's not a liberal.
 
RightinNYC said:
You mean that a politician didn't come out and volunteer details about his past bad behavior? Wow, that's unprecedented.



He's not the kind of guy that you want around unsecured cookie jars because he's not a liberal.
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The thread's not about me; it's about Miller and his ethics problems.

And, when it comes to not volunteering information, that would be one thing, but Miller actively fought to suppress this information from public scrutiny.¹
 
Chappy said:
The thread's not about me; it's about Miller and his ethics problems.
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And they're relatively minor, unless you're a partisan who desperately wants to believe that they're something more.

And, when it comes to not volunteering information, that would be one thing, but Miller actively fought to suppress this information from public scrutiny.¹
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Wow, there's the smoking gun - no politician would ever do such a thing.
 
mike2810 said:
and the Democratic side is clean?

"Sink appeared on MSNBC late Tuesday to explain that she wasn't to blame for the cheating flap — not the message a candidate wants to convey in the final week of a too-close-to-call race. She was less talkative to reporters earlier when she would only take three questions on the topic before hastily leaving the Capitol after a Cabinet meeting.

Sink said what happened was "clearly against the rules." But she said she wasn't at fault.

I just love candidates that admit they broke the rules, but somehow can't admit fault. It follows a pattern of some believing its always someone elses fault.

Cheating flap grows as Alex Sink's campaign winds down - St. Petersburg Times
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Two lessons here:

1) we should not blindly vote for people who are dishonest even if they are candidates from your favorite party. They will not suddenly become more honest when they get into office.
2) some people aren't very good at selecting stuff to post. There really is a difference between breaking a law and having some misguided minion sending you a tweet that breaks the informal rules of a debate.
 
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