{"id":3044,"date":"2016-10-25T00:58:12","date_gmt":"2016-10-25T07:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/alaska-gop-files-complaint-against-joe-miller\/"},"modified":"2016-10-25T00:58:12","modified_gmt":"2016-10-25T07:58:12","slug":"alaska-gop-files-complaint-against-joe-miller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/alaska-gop-files-complaint-against-joe-miller\/","title":{"rendered":"Alaska GOP files complaint against Joe Miller"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Alaska Republican Party has filed an official complaint against Joe Miller alleging \u201cnumerous serious violations of the Federal Election Commission act and regulations.\u201d<\/p>\n
The complaint, dated Monday, was released by the Republican Party via email in the afternoon.<\/p>\n
According to the five-letter complaint sent to the FEC\u2019s Office of General Counsel, Miller used a corporation named Restoring Liberty LLC to accept donations and spread campaign literature without proper disclosure and reporting.<\/p>\n
The complaint also alleges that some of Miller\u2019s campaign literature didn\u2019t contain proper disclosures and that Citizens for Joe Miller \u2014 his campaign committee \u2014 fabricated donations, including a $4,500 in-kind donation from the Alaska Republican Party.<\/p>\n
Miller renounced his Republican Party membership in order to run for U.S. Senate as a member of the Libertarian Party. Miller is running against \u2014 among others \u2014 incumbent Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski.<\/p>\n
\u201cJoe Miller is a licensed attorney and \u2026 must be assumed to be familiar with the requirements of law,\u201d the complaint states.<\/p>\n
The message was signed by Tuckerman Babcock, chairman of the Alaska Republican Party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Alaska Republican Party has filed an official complaint against Joe Miller alleging \u201cnumerous serious violations of the Federal Election Commission act and regulations.\u201d The complaint, dated Monday, was released by the Republican Party via email in the afternoon. According to the five-letter complaint sent to the FEC\u2019s Office of General Counsel, Miller used a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[230],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-3044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3044"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=3044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}