You’re not exactly in hiding when you go on CNN. The candidate with John King tonight (via a CNN e-mail):
KING: Well, let me — let me try to end it right here, then. And you tell me whether — I’ve tried this before and you’ve been straight up. Is this a fair statement, in your view, that at the time this happened, you were disciplined for something, but it had nothing to do with why — while you — the reason you left the agency down the road?
MILLER: Absolutely. That’s a fair statement.
And here’s the exchange about the security incident last night:
And, Mr. Miller, let’s start with the incident last night. Mr. Hopfinger, Tony Hopfinger, he says he showed up at a public school, at a publicly announced campaign event, and tried to just ask you questions in the hall, and, as a result, he was handcuffed by your security detail. Is that what happened?
JOE MILLER (R), ALASKA SENATE CANDIDATE: We had a town hall meeting. It went phenomenally well. They had a lot of people show up.
They had a lot of great questions that were free form, where people could ask questions and good answers would be given.
At the conclusion of that, we left the forum. And there was one particular blogger. He works for a — a blog here in Alaska — that hounded me on the way out the door and, you know, invaded personal space. I answered a question, but continued to get in the way of — us as we were trying to leave.
And I ended up turning around and going the other way. There was a — a private security team that was required. We had to hire them because the school required that as a term in their lease. And after I had left, apparently, he shoved somebody. And — and then they — they arrested him.
KING: The private security detail held him. The Anchorage police came and they said they will let — leave it up to the district attorney whether or not to press charges. But in hindsight, looking back on this, the use of handcuffs in holding somebody like that, was that over the top?
MILLER: Well, I’ve got to tell you, I mean the behavior that was demonstrated while I was there was assaultive. It was certainly over the top. There’s no question that that hounding was something that shouldn’t have happened. And it was unfortunate. But, you know, this was a professional team that was hired according to the contract that we had and — and I’m sure that they did the right thing.
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