You wouldn't believe.... Oh, wait of course you will. Trump's newest advisor:
Like the rest of Donald Trump's campaign, the GOP presidential nominee's effort to lasso support from agribusiness interests and rural voters keeps getting weirder.
A few weeks ago, Trump tapped Charles Herbster—a Nebraskan best known for his fat checks to GOP candidates and his bizarrely diversified business, Conklin—as chairman of his Agricultural and Rural Advisory Committee. On Friday, Sid Miller, Texas' colorful agriculture commissioner, announced that he had agreed to serve as co-chair of the committee. (Hat tip Politico).
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His tenure as Texas ag commissioner has been a ride worthy of one of his beloved rodeos. Soon after taking office, Miller launched a campaign to make public schools safe spaces for junk food, granting "amnesty" to cupcakes and reversing bans on deep-fat fryers and soda machines. He grabbed headlines for handing plum state jobs to campaign contributors, and for comparing Syrian refugees to rattlesnakes on Facebook and suggesting nuclear bombs should be dropped on Muslim countries. As if taking advice from The Donald himself, Miller declined to apologize for those inflammatory posts, though he did delete them.
But his most celebrated exploits involve trips initially billed to taxpayers as official state business—one to Oklahoma to receive a medical procedure known as "the Jesus shot," administered by a convicted felon known as Dr. Mike; and another to Mississippi to attend the Dixie National Rodeo, where he reportedly won $880 in a calf-roping competition. In both cases, Miller eventually relented and picked up the travel tabs on his own dime.
In the Lubbock radio interview where he announced his association with Trump, Miller gave few details about what sort of agriculture agenda the candidate would push. "My emphasis will be carrying the Texas ag industry for Trump," he said. He denounced "overregulation," naming the Environmental Protection Agency, the Bureau of Land Management, and the Endangered Species Act as regulatory forces Trump would reckon with.
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http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2016/08/meet-other-colorful-character-advising-donald-trump-ag-policy
Q&A: What is a 'Jesus shot' and what's it supposed to do?
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/60cd9eccb70240548ee7a339d9db63bb/qa-what-jesus-shot-and-whats-it-supposed-do
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