Lawd...from the Texas Observer
From 2011 to 2012, George Clayton was a moderate Republican member on the notoriously extreme Texas State Board of Education — a “voice of sanity,” Texas Freedom Network board-watcher Dan Quinn once called him. Halfway through Clayton’s term on the board, activists on the religious right began spreading speculation about his sexuality, and Clayton issued a statement that he did, in fact, “have a male partner who lives with me in my home.” In his bid for re-election, which would have made him the first openly gay Texas Republican elected to such a high position, he finished last in a three-way primary. “I think the party, even before the primary, was working against me,” Clayton told the Observer recently. “I’m convinced of it.”
Which… you know, that’s kind of a foul thing that happened to Mr. Clayton...and it appears to be the reason that he became a Dem... but then there is this
There’s also a Trumpian directness in Clayton’s manner. To improve education, he once suggested, Texas ought to “keep parents as far from the schools as possible.” In a March Facebook post, he wondered if he was alone in his estimation that Fox News personality Juan Williams “is a paid Obama ass licker.”
So there is that from this tired-ass white queen bigot as well…and, by his own admission and in his own words, Mr. Clayton is a ‘’life long Republican.’’