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Bank Moves to Foreclose on Sid Miller’s $240k Chief of Staff
Democrat Running to Regulate Drilling Has Done His RESEARCH
Random Woman Crashes Hinojosa Speech
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Bank Moves to Foreclose on Sid Miller’s $240k Chief of Staff
Todd Smith, the longtime political consultant to Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller and current chief of staff at the Texas Department of Agriculture, is facing a pending home equity foreclosure in Travis County. Smith has a well-documented history of financial and legal trouble. He filed Chapter 7 in 2015. In 2024 he pleaded guilty to commercial bribery for soliciting payments tied to hemp licenses the department issues, and got two years of deferred adjudication. Smith received deferred adjudication for the bribery case.
Smith and his former wife are defendants in the foreclosure case (Case No. D-1-GN-26-004199) in Travis County. US Bank Trust National Association, acting as a trustee, filed an expedited home equity foreclosure action against the Smiths on May 22nd of this year. The Smiths filed an answer in June and a notice of hearing was entered in August.
The filing comes more than a decade after Smith’s Chapter 7 bankruptcy. On February 27th of 2015, Todd Smith filed a Capter 7 petition in the Western District of Texas listing an Austin address. Schedules showed roughly $410,650 in assets against $1,577,273 in liabilities. Smith’s household monthly income was about $16,274 while his expenditures ran about $24,260. Secured claims against Smith included multiple Mercedes-Benz Financial Services obligations and a mortgage claim of approximately $344,000.
Among the unsecured nonpriority claims was a $266,000 business debt to Wishlist Direct of New Braunfels. Wishlist Direct, which also operates as VoterDirect Texas, is a direct-mail and campaign marketing firm that has done substantial work for Texas Republican candidates and PACs. Sid Miller’s campaign is among the payers to Wishlist Direct.
The Chapter 7 trustee’s final account, filed in October of 2016, reported that roughly $912,000 in claims were discharged without payment. Total distributions to claimants were only about $23,800 with most assets abandoned or claimed as exempt.
Todd Smith did not respond to multiple messages for comment. He had no trouble getting back to us in August when the question was whether Miller had endorsed a Democrat. Home equity questions are apparently a different department.
Republicans have been weary and disappointed in outgoing Ag Commissioner Sid Miller as he has refused to endorse Nate Sheets against Democrat Clayton Tucker.
A quick timeline: Sid lost his primary on March 3. The foreclosure against Smith was filed May 22nd. By July his chief of staff had a 10% raise. Somebody at TDA is apparently better with money than Smith is. Welcome to Texas politics.
Recently, Current Revolt reported that both Democrat Clayton Tucker and Sid Miller posted the similar AI slop on their social media pages as well as suspicious similarities in bible quotes.
Democrat Running to Regulate Drilling Has Done His RESEARCH
Many people are saying the Texas Democrat ticket gets weirder the further down the ballot you go, and nobody has scrolled all the way down yet. The Democrat for Senate learned there are six genders from scientists. The Democrat for Railroad Commissioner, as it turns out, did his own research.
That’s right, Democrat Jon Rosenthal is running statewide and sliding down his personal slippery slope of sexual degeneracy at the same time, and his social media accounts continue to subscribe to the weirdest possible porn accounts in the history of the Texas Legislature.
Democratic Texas Railroad Commission candidate Jon Rosenthal follows several social media accounts associated with “transgender-themed” content, including one that links to adult subscription platforms, according to a review by The Dallas Express.
It was only like 2 accounts but…
The account periodically publishes pornographic videos and lists July 2026 as its creation date.
The job of Railroad Commissioner is pipelines, injection wells and flaring. Clearly Rosenthal has been studying.
But in all seriousness, the problem is now obviously far worse than anyone imagined. His Republican opponent, Bo French, called him “the most brazen and depraved Democrat running statewide this cycle.”
Rosenthal didn’t respond to the Dallas Express. He did respond to two posts from the Trans Slumber Party account, with a like.
Apparently Rosenthal and French are doing a debate next week.
No idea how LGBT and the Islamification of Texas will make it into a Railroad Commission debate, but somebody’s going to try, and we’ll be monitoring the situation next Thursday.
Perhaps we’ll finally get an answer to this notorious question posed by French:
Random Woman Crashes Hinojosa Speech
A recent Austin occurrence put the “goober” in gubernatorial. While Democrat gubernatorial Gina Hinojosa was giving a speech in downtown Austin, bemoaning Abbott not debating her, a random lady walked up to the empty podium and demanded a debate in the name of “equal air time.” Considering the amount of hobos and weirdos residing there, this looks like another day in Travis County.
Hinojosa continued speaking once the spontaneous woman was removed by security, whining about Abbott buying space in front of the governor’s mansion so she couldn’t speak there.
Despite the oddity, Current Revolt was able to ID the woman as Texas independent gubernatorial candidate Jenn Mack Raphoon. Back in July, we researched her and found that she had ZERO primary voting history.
Her strategy to run as an independent is strange, considering we have this thing called a “primary” that Republicans can choose their nominee in. Granted, she doesn’t pay attention to those. That said, her crashing a Democrat candidate’s speech was still entertaining.
In our crystal ball, I can see her getting a very prestigious 1.5% of the vote. So far, her campaign is primarily podcast clips and eye-burning Canva and AI slop graphics. No word on whether Doc Chambers will endorse her.
No word on what Mack will do post-November. I hear Doc Chambers’s RV has a spare couch.
"'goober' in gubernatorial." I love it!