Hint: it’s not to win. He has zero chance. He must know this on some level. He’s gotten destroyed in his last three “campaigns” and has never so much as sat on a board in our tiny town of Lampasas. He’s a proven failure and incompetent goldbricker.
He can’t even file for another 5 months – so WHY do this NOW, so far ahead of time? Technically, he’s not even currently “running” since he hasn’t filed candidacy papers and cannot do so until late this year. Shit, I can say I’M running for Ag Commissioner too! See how easy it is? I declare it!
I have a theory. There are TWO reasons that makes sense to me.
#1 – just a good, old-fashioned money grift. By announcing this early, he gets all the dummy socialists to donate to his campaign. That’s money he can keep after he gets destroyed or withdraws for some made-up reason later on. He’s still shuffling around money from his failed 2020 campaign. He uses it to fund his pet PAC projects like Texas Bluebonnet PAC and the Farm & Food Action PAC. It’s a total grift. All he has to do is stick his hand out and a certain number of lonely old ladies who love goat pictures will donate $50 here and $100 there.
In fact, he had his grifting page up BEFORE he even announced!
#2 – it justifies his lack of employment and gives him yet another reason to avoid real work on his failed “ranch.”
You see, if he was just driving around to these little “speeches” 3 or 4 times a month for no reason, he just looks like an aimless, pathetic, live-at-home son. Which he most definitely is.
BUT, if he’s “running for Ag Commissioner,” now all the pointless driving around to idiocy like the East Texas Water Wars (where he drove 6 hours round trip to stand in the back of a room and accomplished nothing) can be attributed to something: hey mom, I’m running for office! I’m super busy! Please feed my pet goats.
This move is quite slick, actually. Only a pro grifter and shitbag would think this way. He’s going to do the EXACT same thing he was doing for the last few years, but now (1) some dumbshits will donate free money to his account and (2) he can attribute all the wheel spinning to a “higher cause.” He’s running for Ag Commissioner to “save the small farms” and “feed the poor hungry kids.”
Get paid to do the same useless shit I always do AND slap a Big Important Title on it so I can act like I’m helping everyone?? Yes please! I’m in!
See how that works? You see how Clayton ALWAYS paints himself as a do-gooder while not actually doing anything at all?
EXAMPLE #1
Open your wallet and pay off local school lunch debt like you lied about doing? No thanks. That costs real money! Clayton takes a pass on that. That’s actual sacrifice by lightening his wallet.
VERSUS…
Wear a useless mask while driving around in your car by yourself? Being an annoying scold and chiding everyone ELSE to wear a mask or you’re a bad person? DEMAND everyone wear a mask OR ELSE?? Oh yes – Clayton is ALL OVER that shit. Requires zero effort on his part and he gets to look like a hero with his virtue signaling.
Clayton takes the easy route once again!
EXAMPLE #2
Work hard, quietly and thanklessly to build a REAL ranch business with all the free shit grandpa gave him? Provide beef to the country at a decent price? Fuck all that. That’s real work and he might fail! Clayton has no interest in that.
VERSUS…
TALK about ranching a lot and the need for more ‘family farms.’ Join Farmer’s Union and post pictures of yourself on social media demanding the government (taxpayer) shell out a bunch of money for all your pet projects and wants? Oh yes! Clayton loves that shit. Sitting around telling other people what to do on social media so you can look like a “good guy” demanding free shit for everyone? Requires ZERO effort. Clayton is all in on that.
See? Every time.