Cox Touts Endorsement From Annapolis Swamp Creature
If Warren Miller, the Democrats favorite Republican, supports Dan Cox then why should conservatives?
Delegate Dan Cox has recently been touting an endorsement from former Delegate Warren Miller.
Cox of course has been endorsed by zero sitting Republican Delegates or State Senators.
Cox, who has been touting himself as a champion of conservative credentials, touting an endorsement from somebody who disappointed conservatives like Warren Miller did is quite odd.
Miller was once thought of as a solid conservative voice. But toward the end of his career as a delegate, Miller went native and became the Democrats favorite Republican.
In his final term as a Delegate, in what can only be described as dutiful water-carrying for the Democratic machine in Annapolis, Miller acted in a manner in total contradiction to his professed views about protecting small businesses and advocating for good government.
Miller was the House sponsor of a bill to strip the Comptroller’s office of its authority over alcohol enforcement. In his veto, Governor Larry Hogan rightly called this bill “personality-driven” “petty politics” at its worst, and a “solution in search of a problem that does not exist.”
Miller’s bill moved the Field Enforcement Division out of the Comptroller’s Office into a newly created bureaucracy at the potential cost of up to $50 million. The voters of District 9A certainly did not send him to Annapolis to be an agent of the late Speaker Mike Busch’s political retribution, but there he was carrying the water for it.
So we have to ask the question: should a professed steward of the taxpayer dollars deliberately set tens of millions of public dollars on fire in the pursuit of a political grudge? Because Miller was first in line to fill up a jerrycan.
Of course, this stemmed from Franchot’s support for Maryland’s craft breweries against the middlemen distributors, who control the legislative alcohol committees, upon which Miller sat.
Later, Miller enlisted in Speaker Busch’s war on small, family-owned breweries and voted to oppose free-market reforms to the alcohol industry. Miller minced no words in showing his contempt for the brewers who schlepped to Annapolis to protect their businesses when he all but paraphrased Barack Obama telling them they didn’t build that.
“It is the work of this committee and the committee across the street that has allowed you guys to prosper… we created the industry in Maryland… it’s our work that created your industry so you just remember that as you testify.”
Attacking small businesses and expanding government bureaucracy is not what voters signed up for when they elected Warren Miller.
After being a lapdog for the members of the Democratic swamp, Miller quit before his term was over. He hand-selected attention seeking liberal Reid Novotny as his replacement.
Warren Miller, who campaigned as a conservative champion, ultimately became the poster child of a Republican who became part of the Annapolis Swamp. Which makes me wonder why Cox would be proud of such an endorsement.
If Warren Miller, the Democrats favorite Republican, supports Dan Cox then why should conservatives?
Warren loves Cox!
F those brewers