Miller Camp Paints Sheets as Pervert
Based on Confessions in the Ministry
Capitol Inside
February 16, 2026
After being portrayed as a crooked politician without ever being charged with a crime, Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller decided to fight fire with a bazooka on Monday when his campaign portrayed GOP primary foe Nate Sheets as a sex fiend with a drinking problem and penchant for porn based on the challenger's own words.
The Miller campaign accused Sheets of spreading "falsehoods and distortions" in a statement that quoted the challenger when he ostensibly sought redemption for moral depravity and repeated indiscretions as a minister by confessing his sins to the world before he knew he would run for public office someday.
A Miller supporter - acting independently from the re-election campaign - posted some of the confessional podcasts on a new web site called soiledsheets.com.
"Despite constant media inquiries, the campaign will not be speaking further on the recent revelations about Sheets’ addictions to sex, alcohol, and pornography, or his illicit affairs while in ministry, resulting in his untimely dismissal," Miller campaign manager Don Rasmussen said.
"While all Texans should know he withheld this information while presenting himself not as a fallen man, redeemed by the blood of Christ, but as a paragon of virtue and ministerial zeal, it is between him, his family, and God," Rasmussen added. "We only ask that the media respectfully hold him to the same standard to which they hold all other Republicans."
The incumbent state farm chief's campaign unleashed the attack in writing in the wake of an encounter between Sheets and Miller at a debate on Sunday night before a packed venue in Dallas. With the start of early voting on Monday, Miller appeared to be taking nothing for granted despite polling that showed him with a 30-point lead in the agriculture commissioner competition that will end with the primary election on March 3 in a field with only two contenders.
The University of Houston poll found Miller with 48 percent compared to 18 percent for Sheets in a development that reflected poorly on Governor Greg Abbott, who's been campaigning for the challenger while calling the incumbent corrupt and urging GOP voters to give him the boot in the primary election that's two weeks from Tuesday. The UH survey gave the governor little reason to believe that his involvement in the agriculture commissioner race was having any detectable effect unless it's actually helping the incumbent he's been working hard to oust.
Sheets had rounded up almost four times more campaign cash than Miller for the statewide contest after the first three weeks in January. Sheets reported a total haul of almost $1.4 million since emerging as a candidate last year.
Sheets also has scored endorsements from Texas Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham, a trio of legislators in GOP State Senators Angela Paxton of McKinney, Charles Perry of Lubbock and Kevin Sparks of Midland and a long list of conservative activists. A Miller blowout on par with the UH poll would put the incumbent ag commissioner in position to claim that he's stronger among GOP voters than all of the other elected officials who rallied behind Sheets combined.
Abbott has remained mum up to now on the revelations of the Sheets testimonial about personal troubles from the past. The governor has invested substantial political capital in the Sheets campaign - and he may simply dismiss the focus on the past as desperation rhetoric by an incumbent who he fully expected for Sheets to beat when he jumped out in front of his campaign.
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