Posted on 10/23/2010 6:17:52 PM PDT by library user
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FAIRBANKS -- A judge ruled today that the Fairbanks North Star Borough must release personnel records of Senate candidate Joe Miller.
In an unusual Saturday hearing, retired Superior Court Judge Winston Burbank ruled that the public's right to know about candidates outweighed Miller's right to privacy.
Burbank ordered no release until at least Tuesday, however, to allow Miller to appeal the decision to the Alaska Supreme Court. Some of the documents will be redacted, he said.
The case was brought by a group of Alaska news media organizations, who have been trying since summer to see borough documents concerning Miller's employment as a part-time borough attorney.
Miller, the Republican nominee, fought the release, arguing that any release of personnel records violated his privacy rights
Among the documents being sought are details of his resignation from the job last year, and any disciplinary actions taken against him while employed. Separate lawsuits were brought by the Alaska Dispatch and Fairbanks Daily News-Miner. The Daily News and Associated Press joined, and the suits were combined. Among the arguments for release was that the state Supreme Court, in earlier cases, has ruled that candidates for office expose their private lives to public scrutiny.
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He was appointed by Governor Frank Murkowksi
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They need to get the early dirt on all the democrat judges
Look what they are trying on Rand Paul in Kentucky - in a debate and now in TV ads
If my memory is correct I think the Clinton’s did a good job of getting Dem judges installed all over. And, the law is what they deem it to be, not by the book.
This is sick. Typical Obamunism. Same stunts he pulled in Illinois.
Miller needs to go on the offensive. If everything is going to come out anyway, he needs to consider holding a news conference and releasing it all in and on his own terms. And he needs to use that news conference to attack the Murkoski ties to the crooked “retired” judge.
He cannot appear to either: (1) appear to be sitting around in fear waiting for the next shoe to drop, (2) fighting tooth and nail to prevent the public from hearing unsavory information.
He has to go on the offensive.
GREAT find. This smells of a political payback.
Well, there you go.
I knew Murkowski was behind this. For more, read this folks:
The Associated Press reports that an Alaskan judge has ruled that the personnel records of Republican candidate Joe Miller must be released, because apparently the interest of public knowledge outweighs the interest of individual privacy.
Several news organizations sued for the information. The Daily News-Miner reported Saturday that retired Superior Court Judge Winston Burbank says the public’s right to know outweighs Miller’s right to privacy.
Miller recently acknowledged he was disciplined for violating the ethics policy while working for the Fairbanks North Star Borough, but said it was unrelated to his departure from the borough.
Burbank ordered that the documents be released by 4 p.m. on Tuesday, which allows time for an appeal. Media attorney Chris Zimmerman says he expects Miller’s attorneys to appeal the decision to the Alaska Supreme Court.
Judge Winston Burbank has a serious conflict of interest in this case. Namely, he was appointed by Governor Frank Murkowksi. As in the father of Lisa Murkowski, Miller’s chief opponent. From the Associated Press in 2003:
JUNEAU (AP) Gov. Frank Murkowski has appointed two Fairbanks men to Interior judgeships…
Winston Burbank, 54, was picked for a District Court judgeship.
Burbank has been semiretired for the past five years. Before that, he was a partner in the Fairbanks law firm of Call, Barrett and Burbank, where the bulk of his practice was personal injury law for both plaintiffs and defendants.
Burbank also served as a temporary District Court judge while Judge Jane Kauvar was on sabbatical leave.
So we have a judge appointed by Lisa Murkowksi’s father ruling that Lisa Murkowski’s main opponent has to release potentially damaging information. There’s something seriously wrong there.
See post #47 as well.
Exactly. Obama won his senate seat by getting a judge to release the divorce records of his opponent but we can’t even see his birth certificate. That’s fair.
Looks like the Alaska cabal is doing to Miller what they did to Palin in 2008. I would not be surprised if Murkowski uses this horribly-timed issue to skate to victory.
Thank you. :-) I have been working in the yard all day & was too tired to post the meat of the story.
It's likely he has no idea what's in the file.
1 Certified copy of original birth certificate
2 Columbia University transcripts
3 Columbia thesis paper
4 Campaign donor analysis requested by 7 major watchdog groups
5 Harvard University transcripts
6 Illinois State Senate records
7 Illinois State Senate schedule
8 Law practice client list and billing records/summary
9 Locations and names of all half-siblings and step-mother
10 Medical records (only the one page summary released so far)
11 Occidental College Transcripts
12 Parent’s marriage Certificate
13 Record of baptism
14 Selective Service registration records
(Did Obama Actually Register for Selective Service?
This supposed revelation of 0's SS records has been debunked here and here.)
15 Schedules for trips outside of the United States before 2007
16 Passport records for all passports
17 Scholarly articles
18 SAT and LSAT test scores
19 Access to his grandmother in Kenya
20 List of all campaign workers that are lobbyists
21 Punahou grade school records
22 Noelani Kindergarten records are oddly missing from the the State of Hawaii Department of Education.
23 Obama 1964 Divorce Papers - 13 Pages - Missing Pg 11
24 Why isn't Barack Obama still a member of the Illinois bar and where are all of the relevant documents?
25 Why isn't Michelle Obama still a member of the Illinois bar, after only about four years of practice, and where are all of the relevant documents?
Anyone who cares about their country would be very concerned that a POTUS had hidden every scrap of information of his life that he possibly could.
Back in the Founder’s time this would be justification for a duel.
Sooner or later some nutjob is going to take offense to these corrupt judges. Amazing how they think they are invincible and can make clearly conflicted opinions without consequences.
Who said it won't be? I have a feeling this one is going to explode next week.
My question is who brought the clown in?
FAIRBANKS -- A judge ruled today that the Fairbanks North Star Borough must release personnel records of Senate candidate Joe Miller.
In an unusual Saturday hearing, retired Superior Court Judge Winston Burbank ruled that the public's right to know about candidates outweighed Miller's right to privacy.
Grrrrrrrr. This just frosts me. WHERE’S OBAMA’S RECORDS?!?!?!?!?!?!??! THE PUBLIC’S RIGHT TO KNOW OUTWEIGHTS HIS PRIVACY CONCERNS!!!!!!!!!!!!
Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
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