{"id":6031,"date":"2016-01-14T07:00:13","date_gmt":"2016-01-14T12:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=6031"},"modified":"2016-01-13T23:42:19","modified_gmt":"2016-01-14T04:42:19","slug":"mike-miller-compares-peter-franchot-to-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=6031","title":{"rendered":"Mike Miller Compares Peter Franchot to Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 474px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-6031-1\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Miller-Criticizes-Franchot.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Miller-Criticizes-Franchot.mp4\">https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Miller-Criticizes-Franchot.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>Bruce DePuyt of News Channel 8 got quite a first day of session interview from Senate President Mike Miller. After giving a lucid analysis of the sources of the Trump phenomenon and its danger, Miller aimed his fire closer to home:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He [Trump] is like one of our state officials. I&#8217;m not going to name his name. He&#8217;s a fraud. He was a moderate Democrat who is now transforming himself saying I&#8217;m a right-wing tea party conservative to get the vote. That&#8217;s nonsense. You&#8217;ve got to be true to yourself. He&#8217;s not true to himself as are other politicians that we know.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s an open secret that the state official who shall not be named is Comptroller Peter Franchot. Miller has been feuding publicly with the Comptroller, attacking him in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bethesdamagazine.com\/Bethesda-Beat\/2015\/Senate-President-Criticizes-Comptrollers-Performance-in-Letter\/\">scathing public letter<\/a>. Miller has been critical of Franchot for grandstanding and his now routine support of Gov. Hogan on the Board of Public Works.<\/p>\n<p>Franchot&#8217;s evolution has been amazing. When he primaried sitting Comptroller William Donald Schaefer in 2006, he positioned himself as the progressive standard bearer. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/09\/12\/AR2006091201778_2.html\"><em>Washington Post<\/em> reported<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Franchot ran an aggressive campaign, trying to link both Schaefer and Owens to Ehrlich and claiming that he was &#8220;the only real Democrat in the race.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So in essence, Miller&#8217;s argument is that Franchot has become exactly the portrait he drew of his opponent in 2006. Indeed, Franchot&#8217;s<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bethesdamagazine.com\/Bethesda-Beat\/2015\/Comptroller-Fires-Back-after-Senate-Presidents-Critique\/\"> reply to Miller&#8217;s letter<\/a> was highly complimentary of the Governor while critical of General Assembly Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>Mike Miller is a centrist Democrat, so one can only imagine how liberals in the General Assembly view Franchot&#8217;s actions. I&#8217;d say Franchot is headed for uncharted waters except that, based on his own 2006 primary campaign, Franchot should know exactly where the course he is charting heads.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bruce DePuyt of News Channel 8 got quite a first day of session interview from Senate President Mike Miller. After giving a lucid analysis of the sources of the Trump phenomenon and its danger, Miller aimed his fire closer to home: He [Trump] is like one of our state officials. I&#8217;m not going to name &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=6031\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mike Miller Compares Peter Franchot to Trump<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[365,141,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-assembly","category-mike-miller","category-peter-franchot"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4mKJE-1zh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6031"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6038,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6031\/revisions\/6038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}