GOP Senate Hopeful Craig Miller Plays Up Leadership Background

Craig Miller, the former CEO of Ruth's Chris, continues to play up his experience in the business community as he continues his bid for the Republican nomination to challenge Democratic incumbent U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson in 2012.

I have spent most of my adult life in the business world.While there are several significant differences between the business and political world, there is one crucial constant: leadership, Miller wrote in an email sent out to supporters on Tuesday. It has been said that a boss says go while a leader says lets go. Leadership is what enables a ships crew to stay calm and steer that ship through a storm, and leadership is what is going to enable this great country to weather our current challenges and come out as a stronger nation as a result.I have spent my life learning how to lead, and I am running to bring those skills to the U.S. Senate.

Stressing his years in the private sector and as a member of the Air Force during the Vietnam War, Miller had tried out that theme in a speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) event on Friday in Orlando. In a straw poll held at CPAC, Miller came in last place, trailing three other Republicans looking to challenge Nelson.