Husted: Glendale Mayor Mike Dunafon bares the truth (Slideshow)

Mike Dunafon has a backstory like a oversized Dickens novel.

Glendale’s mayor was born in a home for unwed mothers; his father was a mostly gone-missing rodeo cowboy. He grew up in orphanages and the homes of relatives. He went on his own at 13, studied at Golden High School, played football there and was caught sleeping in the teachers’ lounge.

He was a star player at the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley and was signed by the Denver Broncos 1976-1977. Then he went to the British Virgin…