Pensacola resident Charles Thies has announced his plans to challenge Rep. Jeff Miller for Florida’s District 1 seat in the U.S. House.
Thies, a first generation Cuban-American, says he is dismayed by party politics and a dysfunctional U.S. Congress.
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Thies filed for office late last month as an independent candidate with no party affiliation. Up until last year, Thies was the CEO of Cloud View Technologies in Okaloosa County, a cloud based software firm which was acquired by Books International of Dulles, Va.
He and his wife, Lea, a nurse practitioner and Air Force veteran, have four children.
Thies said he would work to sustain the military presence in Northwest Florida but also wants to diversify the region’s economy.
