U.S. Army veteran and Republican Party of Florida Committeeman from Martin County, Eric Miller, is running for Chairman of the state GOP and isn’t mincing his words about how he feels about the other three candidates in his race.
The retired small business owner and current homesteader from Indiantown, Florida, went on the record to discuss his candidacy for the top job at the Republican Party of Florida.Miller started the sit down interview with the SHARKT TANK by saying that members of the committee have expressed to him concern over the “lack of leadership” at the top of the RPOF over the past 10 years, and believes that there is “no other serious candidate” other than himself in the race better suited to run the RPOF.
As many Floridians will remember (how could they forget) Miller ran against former Republican Governor-turned-Independent-turned Democrat Charlie Crist’s hand pick buddy, former RPOF boss and convicted fraudster, Jim Greer.
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Miller, who was one of the first, if not the first, to sound the alarm about Crist and Greer back in 2008, said that he ran against Greer at “great personal risk,” but saw his run as being important to push back against Crist left-leaning agenda.
Miller, who also believes that he is the only “credible” candidates in the race,” said that the current leadership at the RPOF is very “reminiscent” to the leadership under Jim Greer.
Here we have a chairman (Leslie Dougher) that I fear is not adhering to the rules again, taking us back to those days that are reminiscent to Jim Greer.- Eric Miller
As far as the other two candidates were concerned, former state Representative Kurt Kelly, and newly-elected state Representative Blaise Ingoglia, Miller says that he thinks they were both drafted to run in order to take votes away from him in a head-to-head contest between him and Dougher.
Kurt Kelly runs a full-foundation, and according to Miller, may not be able to find the time to run this business and the state GOP at the same time, not to mention that there could be some donor-based conflicts of interest that may come up with his Tallahassee-based foundation.
And then there is Blaise Ingoglia, the current Vice Chairman of the state party, and state Representative-elect, who according to Florida statute, will not be able to “talk to donors” or do any state GOP business during the annual two month-long legislative session in Tallahassee.
The RPOF’s Chairman’s election will he held on Saturday January 17, 2015. Stay tuned for more on this race in the coming weeks.