According to a new report, the Agriculture Commissioner from Texas used taxpayer money to fly to Oklahoma City for the unusual medical procedure, while publicly stating that he had made the trip to meet with Oklahoma lawmakers.
The Houston Chronicle reported Thursday that longtime politician Sid Miller had used at least $1,120 for flights and a rental car to take a trip to Oklahoma in February, which he claimed was to meet lawmakers in the state. But interviews with several politicians he cited suggest that Miller wasn’t meeting with them that day, and all of the lawmakers pictured in a photograph from the trip said they weren’t with him on that day.
Instead, according to the Chronicle, Miller may have been receiving an unusual medical procedure to treat chronic pain:
Miller, a former rodeo cowboy who suffers from chronic pain, told the Houston Chronicle earlier this year he has received the “Jesus Shot,” a controversial but legal medication administered only by a single Oklahoma City-area doctor who claims that it takes away all pain for life.
