Just weeks before the Utah Democratic Party was scheduled to elect a new leader in 2017, seven female activists accused one candidate — the party’s former vice chairman and treasurer — of multiple incidents of sexual misconduct.
Now, Miller wants to run again for chair and even spoke as a candidate at three county conventions last week in rural Utah. But the party says it never received his campaign paperwork by Saturday’s deadline and that he is therefore ineligible to run.
“I believe it’s a lie,” he told The Salt Lake Tribune. “My [online] application was sent in before we went into Spanish Fork Canyon [on the way to the Carbon County convention Saturday].