Posted on: 10:38 am, February 4, 2014, by Eli Stokols, updated on: 02:26pm, February 4, 2014

Glendale Mayor Mike Dunafon, a wealthy strip club owner, may throw a new wrinkle into the Colorado governor's race with a social media-driven, self-funded campaign.

DENVER As Republicans struggle to find a viable candidate to challenge Democratic Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper, an independent, highly unconventional and wealthy gubernatorial hopeful is hiding in plain sight.

Well, in Glendale anyway.

Mike Dunafon, 59, the Libertarian mayor of Glendale whose fiancee owns Shotgun Willies, is promising on his website to petition onto the gubernatorial ballot this fall if he can get more than 60,000 likes on his Facebook page by April 6, his 60th birthday.

Should he do so, hes promising to run as an unaffiliated, independent, standalone candidate.

Hes just over 18,000 likes at the moment.

I will rely on our communication on Facebook, Twitter and all the social media to change the face of politics on the planet, not just Colorado and the United States, Dunafon says in the video outlining his 60 for 60 challenge.

Dunafon, a former NFL player whos turned Glendale into a destination for rugby with the city-owned Infinity Park, is pro-Second Amendment, pro-gay marriage (he officiates a same-sex union in a video on his site) and pro-choice.

In an interview on The Glenn Beck Program last year, fill-in host Dana Loesch introduced him like this: He owns a castle, he owns a strip club, and he owns a church oh and hes also the mayor.

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