Alaska Republican Joe Miller admitted Sunday he was reprimanded for ethics violations while employed as a part-time attorney with the local Fairbanks government.
Miller, who is in a tough race for the Senate, said during a Sunday evening debate that he was suspended for three days for participating in a private poll during his lunch break, according to the Associated Press.
Miller’s time at the Fairbanks North Star Borough has become a key issue in the race, and several Alaska publications have sued to unseal the employment records from his time there. A local judge ruled Saturday that almost all of those records need to be released on Tuesday afternoon. Miller still has the option to appeal to the state Supreme Court, but his spokesman said Sunday night that he had not yet decided whether to do so.