JUNEAU - The chairman of the state Republican party says former Fairbanks North Star Borough Mayor Jim Whitaker is trying to influence the outcome of the Alaska Senate race with claims about GOP candidate Joe Miller.

JUNEAU - Republican U.S. Senate candidate Joe Miller almost lost his job as an attorney with the Fairbanks North Star Borough for using government computers in an unsuccessful bid to overthrow Alaska's GOP chairman in 2008, former Mayor Jim Whitaker said.