Allison Miller, who is running for state attorney in Florida’s 6th Judicial District, which includes the towns of St. Petersburg and Clearwater, is aware that there is a reason why she feels as like she is under a microscope and has a target on her back during her campaign.
This is due to the fact that she is running in the sole state attorney contest that will be on the ballot in Florida this November, and it will be the first time since 1992 that a Democrat will be competing for the position of chief prosecutor in either Pinellas or Pasco County.
In an interview that HollywoodLife obtained EXCLUSIVE RIGHTS to publish, Allison stated, “Sometimes, it seems very much like I have all of the Florida GOP coming at me.”
“I am kind of the representative of the struggle against the existing quo, the good old boy cronyism, and the ‘law and order’ kinds that [Governor Ron] DeSantis supports,” said the candidate.
This is due to the fact that she is working to modernise courts and punish the crime that is actually impacting her district, but Governor DeSantis is focused on culture wars such as abortion, book-banning, transgender healthcare, and restricting the rights of protestors, among other issues.
Additionally, Allison is the only Democrat in nearly three decades to have run for the office of State Attorney in both Pasco and Pinellas County.
A special election was called for after the death of long-serving Republican prosecutor Bernie McCabe in January 2021, which spurred her opposition to Bruce Bartlett’s candidacy.
During his 28 years in office, McCabe has never had an opponent, so this election is rattling up both ends of the political spectrum.
Allison Miller is a candidate for the position of State Attorney in Western Florida’s Pinellas and Pasco County, which includes the general vicinity of St. Petersburg and the Tampa Bay area.
Miller’s Campaign for State Attorney
Allison’s experience as a mother, wife, and long-time public defender makes her an excellent candidate for the position of State Attorney.
Her first run-in with the authorities came after she was the victim of a brutal assault when she was a teenager, and then again when she survived a rape when she was in college.
After that, she became very interested in “understanding” the reasons why people engage in criminal behaviour.
After completing her undergraduate degree, she went on to study law at the Florida State University College of Law.
Following that, she completed an internship at the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, which ultimately led to a career in the Public Defender’s office that lasted for 15 years.
There, she had become one of the few public defenders to take on death penalty cases, a mission that was driven by her belief in the “dignity of all human life from conception through natural death” as a Catholic.
She had become one of the few public defenders to take on death penalty cases. In addition to that, she was a co-author on a piece of law that prohibits the execution of mentally ill people.
Allison, who worked as a public defender, witnessed a rise in the number of people being incarcerated in her region, primarily as a result of strict cash bail rules and non-violent drug charges.
She decided not to address the matter head-on and instead recalled reading an interview in which the acting State Attorney Bartlett stated that the “lack of change” in his office is the “most effective” aspect of his agency.
Allison said, “At that point, I made the decision to run against him because the situation had become untenable.”
These days, prosecutors like the State Attorneys in Florida are faced with a wider variety of problems to investigate and prosecute.
In places like Florida, where the rate of crime is rising and communities are becoming increasingly concerned, some local prosecutors are being obliged to take a stance on contentious issues like abortion and healthcare for transgender people.
Just one day prior to the conversation between Allison and HollywoodLife, Governor DeSantis of Florida dismissed the State Attorney for Hillsborough County, Andrew Warren, for promising not to prosecute the state’s prohibition on abortions after 15 weeks.
(The prohibition is in a precarious position legally as a result of the Florida Supreme Court’s decision to declare it unlawful prior to the overturning of Roe v. Wade in June 2022.)
Allison has also promised that if she is elected, she will not make the prosecution of abortion as a crime, and because of this, she is even more concerned about being a political “target.”
She has made this statement while looking to Florida’s highest court for direction.
According to Allison, “The governor has already made Andrew Warren a target because of his views on prosecuting abortion, views I share.”
“The governor has already made Andrew Warren a target because of his views on prosecuting abortion.”
“Therefore, I do have some cause for concern that the governor may have me in his sights as his next target.”
Allison’s concerns about the state of the criminal justice system, however, are not deterring her from working to improve it.
The public defender is not even close to being a “progressive prosecutor” or a candidate who would be “soft on crime,” despite the fact that she is prepared to revamp the justice system in Pasco and Pinellas Counties.
The other side may try to portray her in this light. “I feel that I am the candidate for law and order,” she said, referring to her position on modernising the courts and lowering the likelihood that minor, non-violent offenders will become entangled in the system, so wasting resources.
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Despite this, Allison was quick to admit that she is not in favour of keeping things as they are.
“If you think we should keep doing it the same way we’ve been doing it for 40, 50, or 60 years, then I’m not the right candidate for you,” she explained.
“If you think we should keep doing it the same way we’ve been doing it for 40, 50, or 60 years, then I’m not the “However, if you believe that we could do it better to keep people safer, to be a better steward of the taxpayer dollars,
and to hopefully provide folks a pathway to redemption out of the system, then you should most certainly vote for me,” the candidate said. “It’s important to me that we keep people safe.”
