A native of Southern California, David Miller was born in Orange County. David's father is a Realtor and his mother is retired from the loan business.

 

Currently David Miller lives in the San Gabriel Valley and is married with four children and three grandchildren.  He is a small business owner in the construction and real estate development business.

 

His business life has given David a direct personal experience of the bedrock principles of American society:  we are each born with a right to succeed or fail by pursuing the liberty secured for us by our Constitution.

 

David has run for Congress twice, in 2010 and 2012, and saw solid electoral results in against an incumbents Democrat.  He has funded his own campaigns out of a deep desire to pass down to his children and grandchildren a prosperous and healthy community, state and country.

 

David organized the Los Angeles Constitutional Congressional Coalition and is currently Secretary of the 48th Assembly District Central Committee.

 

He is a member of the Republican Liberty Caucus and believes in the principles of limited government, free markets, entrepreneurship, personal liberty, Constitutional rule of law and sound fiscal and monetary policy.

 

Why I'm Running for Office

 

My name is David Miller and I am running for CRP Chair because it is well past the time for California Republicans to come together to discuss and resolve the political issues of messaging, marketing and branding faced by our party.

 

I am asking each and every one of the delegates to consider your fiduciary obligation to those you represent, your children and grandchildren, your brothers and sisters, your neighbors and communities.

 

I have four children and three grandchildren, and I want to leave this great state and nation better than when I had it passed to me by my parents and grandparents.  I am a small business owner and have felt the pressures of regulation and a bad economy. I have had to live under the overbearing rules and regulations passed by career politicians, and I have had enough. 

 

As a two time candidate for Congress, I know how hard it is to win against the political overhang of many years of mismanaged, broken Republican messaging and branding.

 

The California Republican Party does not have financial problems, it has a branding problem. I have been a business owner for most of my working life and understand that businesses do not have money problems; they have products that people are not willing to spend their money on.

 

Let me be clear:  there's nothing wrong with our core Republican principles of limited government, constitutional rule of law, sound fiscal and monetary policy, personal freedom and individual responsibility.  We're just doing a very poor job of communicating those principles by translating them into policies and legislation that resonate with voters.

 

A Republican form of government stands for the individual rights of all people, but the message the people of California have been receiving is that we are a party of the wealthy and the well-connected.  This perception will persist if we continue to nominate rich and famous personalities to run for statewide office (e.g., Arnold Schwarzenegger, Meg Whitman).

 

The decline of the California GOP has occurred gradually over the last 40-plus years. As far as I have been able to assess, the Republican Party of California at present does not have a strategy or operational plan to win over the hearts and minds of the people of California.

 

I believe the California Republican Party needs a leader at this time who can and will set forth a bold vision for the party. We must define clearly for the public and for the members of our party who Republicans are and what we really stand for.  Under my leadership, there will be a clear Strategic Vision and a Strategic Plan to carry it out successfully.

 

I am ready to stand up and lead the way back for our party and to restore to our great state the vision of our founding fathers: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.”

 

My question to all CRP delegates, then, is: What are the problems we are facing as a state and a party? And how are we going to fix them? What are you personally going to the CRP convention to do? And who are you doing this for?  Are you ready to have a conversation about the future of the California Republican Party?

 

To share your thoughts please contact me at David@Vote4miller.net.

 

In Freedom,

 

David L. Miller – Candidate for CRP Chair 2013-2015