Craig Miller Rips Bill Nelson for Harry Reid Fundraising Event

U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., is taking part in a fundraiser with U.S. Sen. Majority Harry Reid, D-Nev., in Lake Tahoe later this month and Craig Miller is not happy about it.

Miller,the former Ruth's Chris CEO who is now running in the Republican primary to challenge Nelson, took off the gloves on Wednesday and ripped into Nelson.

It is unacceptable that Congress takes vacation for an entire month after it [raising the debt limit] and the president brought the country to the brink of default, said Miller. The people Im talking to on Main Street dont understand how career politicians like Bill Nelson can reward themselves with time off after theyve spent over 800 days operating without a budget. They dont understand how the people in Washington get a break from work, when many of them cant even find jobs thanks to the policies coming out of Congress.

Unemployment in Florida is at 10.6 percent, our country has had one of its credit ratings downgraded and Congress just authorized $900 billion in more debt, added Miller. This is no time for a vacation. Bill Nelson and the rest of Congress need to go back into session immediately and work to tackle our nations problems, because thats what they were elected to do. Instead, Bill Nelson is going to spend part of his government-paid vacation on a trip to Lake Tahoe to collect campaign checks with Harry Reid. The voters of Florida deserve better.