{"id":17781,"date":"2016-11-03T02:37:22","date_gmt":"2016-11-03T02:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=17781"},"modified":"2016-11-03T02:37:22","modified_gmt":"2016-11-03T02:37:22","slug":"ag-commissioner-roiled-in-controversy-once-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=17781","title":{"rendered":"Ag commissioner roiled in controversy once more"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/MillerSid13_jpg_800x1000_q100.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-17782\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/MillerSid13_jpg_800x1000_q100-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"millersid13_jpg_800x1000_q100\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/MillerSid13_jpg_800x1000_q100-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/MillerSid13_jpg_800x1000_q100-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/MillerSid13_jpg_800x1000_q100.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller is mighty careless with his social media outlets.<\/p>\n<p>Someone &#8212; maybe it was Miller, maybe it wasn&#8217;t &#8212; sent out a tweet this week that refers to Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton in a highly offensive term. It&#8217;s a term used to describe women &#8212; and I won&#8217;t repeat it here.<\/p>\n<p>The tweet was taken down shortly after it was posted.<\/p>\n<p>The accusation went immediately to the agriculture commissioner, who has emerged as one of Republican nominee Donald Trump&#8217;s strongest boosters in Texas.<\/p>\n<p>Miller said he didn&#8217;t do it. He blamed it on a staffer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2016\/11\/02\/the-brief\/\">https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2016\/11\/02\/the-brief\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>OK, then. So what if it wasn&#8217;t Miller? Then the staffer needs to lose his job; I&#8217;ll assume it was a male, given the nature of the hideous reference made to Clinton.<\/p>\n<p>How do we know with absolute certainty that a TDA staffer did the deed? I haven&#8217;t a clue, other than for the boss &#8212; that would be Miller, the elected official &#8212; to tell the public the name of the culprit.<\/p>\n<p>They all work for you and for me. I&#8217;d like to know who sent out that terrible message and if he thought he was doing it in my name &#8212; as a member of the Texas public that pays this clown&#8217;s salary.<\/p>\n<p>If Commissioner Miller cannot &#8212; or will not &#8212; tell us who did this &#8230; well, what are we supposed to believe regarding the actual culprit?<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller is mighty careless with his social media outlets. Someone &#8212; maybe it was Miller, maybe it wasn&#8217;t &#8212; sent out a tweet this week that refers to Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton in a highly offensive term. It&#8217;s a term used to describe women &#8212; and I won&#8217;t repeat it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=17781\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ag commissioner roiled in controversy once more<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,18],"tags":[1424,2139,4270,5353],"class_list":["post-17781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political-news","category-state-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-sid-miller","tag-texas-agriculture-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17781"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17783,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17781\/revisions\/17783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}