'It's not a very high bar, we don't have even a C-list Democrat who's announced they're going to run for governor, but Payne is head and shoulders above everyone else,' said Mark Jones, a political science professor at Rice University in Houston.
Leather competitions in 2009, officially launched his campaign this week saying, 'There's no reason to think that someone who is gay can't do a job, and here it's being governor and representing people.'ĭemocrats currently don't have a serious candidate challenging the state's Republican governor Greg Abbott next year-something the Associated Press described as a 'new low'-but they are resistant to get behind Payne even though he is currently the best option. Payne, owner of gay leather bar The Dallas Eagle and winner of both the international and Texas Mr. Yet the party doesn't seem to be getting behind Jeffrey Payne, whose business happens to be a gay bar. A successful Dallas businessman pledging to spend in the seven figures out of his own bank account to run for governor in 2018 should be a great get for Texas Democrats.
