Katrina Trinko, reporting for National Review Online, wrote:
Last night, private security guards hired by Republican senate candidate Joe Miller handcuffed the editor of the Alaska Dispatch after he kept questioning and following Miller, who was leaving an Anchorage school where he had just conducted a town hall meeting.
The editor, Tony Hopfinger, remained handcuffed until the Anchorage police arrived and ordered him to be released, reported the Anchorage Daily News.
"While I've gotten used to the blog Alaska Dispatch's assault on me and my family, I never thought that it would lead to a physical assault," said Miller in a statement. "It's too bad that this blogger would take advantage of a ‘Town Hall' meeting to create a publicity stunt just two weeks before the election."
The security firm, Drop Zone, said that Hopfinger was trespassing and shoved a man. Hopfinger had been trying to question Miller about his time working as an attorney at the Fairbanks North Star Borough, which had recently been in the news after a former borough mayor alleged that Miller had used the borough computer for partisan political activities. (The Miller campaign responded by noting that Miller had not been fired at the time of the alleged computer misuse, but voluntarily resigned months later.)
Hopfinger acknowledges that he shoved a man, but also said that he was encircled by Miller security guards and supporters, which made him feel threatened. There has been no decision made yet by the Anchorage District Attorney's office on whether Hopfinger will be prosecuted.
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