TX Ag Commissioner's Race: Monsanto Lobbyist Vs. Guy Who Called Hillary A C**t In Tweet
Everything's bigger in Texas - especially the assholes.
Remember Sid Miller, Texas’ cowboy hat wearin’, Trump-lovin’ agriculture commissioner? This time a year ago, Miller was working hard to flatter his way to the top agriculture spot in the incoming presidential administration. But after being passed over for that post, Miller will instead have to fight to keep his current job: Last week, news surfaced that he faces a primary challenge from within the Republican Party.
His new rival, Trey Blocker, served as an aid to then Gov. George W. Bush in the 1990s and has since built a career as a lobbyist in the Texas Legislature in Austin, with clients ranging from seed/pesticide giant Monsanto to Walmart to a slew of fossil fuel companies. You might think that someone with such a resume might campaign as a technocrat eager to make Texas respectable again for agribusiness.
After all, the incumbent’s brand is built on buffoonery. Miller has, for example, tried to bill Texas taxpayers for a trip to Oklahoma to receive a medical procedure known as “the Jesus shot”; called Hillary Clinton a “cunt” in a tweet; picked former rocker/reality TV personality and longtime gun nut Ted Nugent as the co-chairman and treasurer of his 2014 campaign—and re-upped that bold staffing decision for the current campaign; and rolled back bans on deep fryers and soda machines in public schools.
But this is Texas. So Monsanto’s man in Austin is, naturally, attacking Miller from the right. And if you’re wondering about where Blocker stands on the farming issues facing Texas—the slow recovery from Hurricane Harvey, horrible conditions and low wages for farm workers, crop destruction from pesticide drift—prepare to be flummoxed. Blocker is focusing his campaign on issues that have little or nothing to do with the Texas agriculture department: god, guns, and immigrants.
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lovely. 
