--- title: Texas Official Sid Miller Calls Hillary Clinton a 'C--t' description: Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller referred to Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton as a “c—t” in a since-deleted tweet. canonical: https://time.com/4554523/texas-sid-miller-hillary-clinton-c-word/ author: Melissa Chan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-11-02T11:56:37.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-19T07:44:49.214Z article:section: Politics og:title: Texas Official Sid Miller's Tweet Calls Hillary Clinton the C-Word og:description: “Sorry it happened" og:url: https://time.com/4554523/texas-sid-miller-hillary-clinton-c-word/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt31493b99cc96d335/6988ac9dcd1bbac166702f31/sid-miller.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Sid Miller og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Texas Official Sid Miller's Tweet Calls Hillary Clinton the C-Word twitter:description: “Sorry it happened" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt31493b99cc96d335/6988ac9dcd1bbac166702f31/sid-miller.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Texas Politician's Tweet Calls Hillary Clinton the C-Word  by [Melissa Chan](https://time.com/author/melissa-chan/)  ## Melissa Chan Nov 2, 2016 11:56 AM UTC  Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller stands in his office in Austin, Texas on Sept. 12, 2016. Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller stands in his office in Austin, Texas on Sept. 12, 2016.Michael Donhauser/picture-alliance/AP  by [Melissa Chan](https://time.com/author/melissa-chan/)  ## Melissa Chan Nov 2, 2016 11:56 AM UTC The [Republican leader of a Texas state agency](http://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/clinton-texas-official-profanity-230603) on Tuesday referred to Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton [as a “c—t” in a since-deleted tweet](http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/article/Texas-Ag-Commissioner-Sid-Miller-calls-Hillary-10445369.php?cmpid=twitter-desktop#photo-11694285). Texas Agriculture Commissioner [Sid Miller](https://www.texasagriculture.gov/About/CommissionerMiller.aspx) blamed his staff for a tweet that used a derogatory term in place of Clinton’s name while cheering Donald Trump’s one-point lead in a poll. “PENNSYLVANIA: NEW AUTO ALLIANCE POLL. TRUMP 44 C–T 43\. Go Trump Go!” read the tweet, which was posted on Miller’s account. A Miller spokesman initially said the Twitter account was “hacked,” the San Antonio _Express-News_ reports. The elected official said in an interview with the newspaper that a staff member was responsible. “You can tell by reading it it’s not something I sent out. I hadn’t read it,” he said, adding that he was “sorry it happened.” “We dealt with it. It was a simple mistake, an oversight,” Miller added. “It should have never happened. I would never talk that way.” \[[_San Antonio Express-News_](http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/article/Texas-Ag-Commissioner-Sid-Miller-calls-Hillary-10445369.php?cmpid=twitter-desktop#photo-11694285)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4554523/texas-sid-miller-hillary-clinton-c-word/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4554523/texas-sid-miller-hillary-clinton-c-word/"},"headline":"Texas Politician's Tweet Calls Hillary Clinton the C-Word","datePublished":"2016-11-02T11:56:37.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-19T07:44:49.214Z","description":"Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller blamed a staff member. \"It should never have happened\"","url":"https://time.com/4554523/texas-sid-miller-hillary-clinton-c-word/","keywords":["2016 Election","Texas","2016 Election"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt31493b99cc96d335/6988ac9dcd1bbac166702f31/sid-miller.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Chan","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-chan/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt31493b99cc96d335/6988ac9dcd1bbac166702f31/sid-miller.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Sid Miller","caption":"Sid Miller","creditText":"Michael Donhauser/picture-alliance/AP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/2016-election/","name":"2016 Election"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4554523/texas-sid-miller-hillary-clinton-c-word/","name":"Texas Politician's Tweet Calls Hillary Clinton the C-Word"}}]}] ```