{"id":18736,"date":"2016-12-20T19:36:00","date_gmt":"2016-12-20T19:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=18736"},"modified":"2016-12-20T19:36:37","modified_gmt":"2016-12-20T19:36:37","slug":"take-our-ag-commissioner-please","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=18736","title":{"rendered":"Take our ag commissioner, please"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I don’t know if this will happen, but there’s some chatter out there about Donald J. Trump’s potential final Cabinet choice.<\/p>\n

It would be\u00a0a doozy if it comes to pass.<\/p>\n

There’s some talk that Texas Agriculture Commissioner (and loudmouth) Sid Miller is under consideration to become the next secretary of agriculture.<\/p>\n

Holy smokes, man! I don’t know quite how to react\u00a0if such a thing happens.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/environment\/2016\/12\/heres-why-usda-remains-trumps-last-unmade-cabinet-pick<\/a><\/p>\n

Miller has not distinguished himself — in a positive way, by my reckoning — since becoming head of the Texas Department of Agriculture in 2015. Instead, he’s managed merely to call attention to himself through his reckless use of Facebook and his tasteless remarks about the Democratic Party’s 2016 presidential nominee.<\/p>\n

Miller has been spreading “fake news” stories on the social medium and he infamously referred to Clinton in a tweet, using a hideously profane epithet that I won’t repeat here. He recently came to Amarillo and had a dinner at a downtown restaurant — and then made a big splash as he expressed his displeasure over the meal he consumed; suffice to say he didn’t make many new friends here in the heart of Trump Country with his ridiculous display of public petulance … over a steak!<\/em><\/p>\n

Now it might be that Miller would depart Austin to serve in the president-elect’s Cabinet at secretary of agriculture.<\/p>\n

He would be the third Texan selected by Trump: Rex Tillerson has been nominated as secretary of state, despite (or because of) his close friendship with Russian dictator Vladimir Putin; Rick Perry has been chosen to be energy secretary, despite his lack of any real experience in the energy sector.<\/p>\n

What would Miller bring to USDA? He once was a champion rodeo cowboy. There. That’s all I know about him … other than his big mouth and penchant for making a spectacle of himself.<\/p>\n

We’ll just have to wait for Trump’s final Cabinet call.<\/p>\n\n

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I don’t know if this will happen, but there’s some chatter out there about Donald J. Trump’s potential final Cabinet choice. It would be\u00a0a doozy if it comes to pass. There’s some talk that Texas Agriculture Commissioner (and loudmouth) Sid Miller is under consideration to become the next secretary of agriculture. Holy smokes, man! I … Continue reading Take our ag commissioner, please<\/span> →<\/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":[13,14],"tags":[1424,3951,4270,6710,6782,5125],"class_list":["post-18736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-rick-perry","tag-sid-miller","tag-tda","tag-usda","tag-vladimir-putin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18736","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=18736"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18739,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18736\/revisions\/18739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}