Owner-operator Robert Gray loses Mississippi gubernatorial bid

Nov 4, 2015

Election returns from Mississippi yesterday, according to a wide variety of reports, show upstart gubernatorial candidate and Fancy Horse Transportation independent owner-operator Robert Gray losing soundly to incumbent Republican Phil Bryant.

“I did everything I could with what I had, and that’s the result,” Gray told WAPT news in Jackson. “The people had a choice and they made it, so that’s all we could do.”

Gray turned heads in August this year when he won the Democratic Party’s primary without mounting much of a public campaign and reportedly not even voting in the contest himself.

Read more about him in this past story:

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