The basic narrative being reported right now about Joe Miller's personnel records from Fairbanks North Star Borough includes these basic points:
-- misused computers for political activities.
-- lied about it initially.
-- admitted it later and was disciplined.
I don't know what Alaska voters are making of this, but it wouldn't be very difficult for them to rationalize these events. After all, Miller says he used the computers on his lunch hour, so maybe he was guilty of nothing more than a technicality. And while lying about it was definitely bad, he did ultimately admit his mistake and take the consequences. Not exactly what we'd like to see on the resume of a US Senator, but hey, nobody's perfect.
However, when you read the detailed account of the affair given by Miller's co-worker Jill Dolan, a much more indefensible and downright disturbing (pathological?) picture emerges.
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