A tweet sent out by Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller referred to Democratic candidate for president Hillary Clinton as the C-word.
NBC 5 political reporter Julie Fine reached out to Miller, who said the tweet was a retweet that was removed after someone on his staff realized what it said.
“Someone from my campaign retweeted it without reading it closely enough, and did not catch the derogatory term. Right when we found out we took it down," Miller told NBC 5.
The tweet referenced a poll showing Republican candidate Donald Trump up by one point; the tweet then ended with "Go Trump Go!"
Before NBC 5 received a statement from Miller, Mark Loeffler, communications director for the Texas Department of Agriculture, told MYSA.com that the commissioner's Twitter account had been hacked.
On his Twitter page Miller describes himself not only as the 12th Agriculture Commissioner of Texas, but also as a 'deplorable' -- a description Clinton made when describing some of Trump's supporters.
Miller, of Stephenville, has been the state's agriculture commissioner since 2014.
NBC 5's Julie Fine contributed to this report.
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