Ag Commissioner Sid Miller Writes Touching Black History Month Remembrance of Jefferson Davis

[TexasTowelie]

Sid Miller (R) has done it again. Over the weekend, the Texas agriculture commissioner, not content with comparing the release of sensitive intelligence information to freeing slaves, posted a glowing tribute to Confederate President Jefferson Davis, smack in the middle of Black History Month.

The commissioner, best described as a cross between the Marlboro man, a revival preacher and a racist email forward, notes that "On this day in 1861, Jefferson Davis, a former U.S. senator from Mississippi who served as U.S. secretary of war in the 1850s, receives word he has been selected president of the new Confederate States of America. Delegates atthe [sic] Confederacy’s constitutional convention in Montgomery, Alabama, chose him for the job."

Miller then goes on to weave a yarn about Davis nobly leaving his slave-staffed plantation, Brierfield, where he was "pruning rose bushes with his wife Varina," to take a job that he felt may be too difficult.

"He could see the difficulties involved in launching the new nation," Miller writes, before quoting Davis. "Upon my weary heart was showered smiles, plaudits, and flowers, but beyond them I saw troubles innumerable. We are without machinery, without means, and threatened by powerful opposition but I do not despond and will not shrink from the task before me.”

Read more: http://www.dallasobserver.com/news/texas-ag-commissioner-sid-miller-praises-jefferson-davis-on-facebook-10363458

[texasfiddler]

1. Sid reminiscing about the "good ole" days

[rownesheck]

2. fuck sid miller...

let's start a campaign here in Texas of taking a Sharpie marker and writing "fuck sid miller" next to every ag commissioner sticker on every gas pump we stop at. There are some people who shouldn't be allowed to hold public office. He is an illegitimate public official as well as an illegitimate human. Didn't he fly to Oklahoma to get a "jesus shot"?! God damn!!!!! I have no qualms about saying there are absolutely no good republicans. Any person who claims to be a republican and refuses to see the absolute idiocy, bigotry, money whore-ism, etc of these people, is no longer worthy of my time. They should all be shunned and shamed. Los of people don't agree with me, but couldn't we give these idiots Nebraska and Kansas and let them live in their own little world of stupid? Please!!! I can't take it anymore!!!!! Bleh...

[efhmc]

4. Wanted to do things to those signs long before this

but don't want to do jail time for defacing public property. Get out the vote for Kim Olsen. https://votekimolson.org/

[yellowdogintexas]

6. Yes. GOTV for Kim!!! She is a force of Nature. YouTube links below:

here's one

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and a playlist
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGCIwhnUy7R35xI7lXsvmwDvoeLXldADU

[Gothmog]

3. Sid Miller is an idiot

[efhmc]

5. He always has been but he is a repug idiot and

that is gold in Texas.

[yellowdogintexas]

7. Has Kim Olson been to your county yet? Have you heard her?

She is on a state wide tour to visit every county especially the rural ones. If any of you have any pull as to who comes to your area, you need to get her there.

She's meeting with farmers "There I was, in the cotton gin...." swapping stories, finding out what will help them, offering creative ideas, etc. When she is in an urban setting, she launches into a fiery speech on what agriculture means to every single one of us, and it does not matter if there are 10 or 1000 people in the room, you feel as if you are the only person she is addressing.

She is a Force of Nature! Smart, funny, full of spit and vinegar, retired Air Force Colonel who flew missions in Iraq and led squadrons. Her life after service has been spent in service at many levels.

[efhmc]

8. Schduled to be here next Monday.

nt Don't think she is a native Texan, though.