Congressional candidate legally changed his name to VoteforEddie.com so that it can appear like that

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Political consultants always hope that their candidates have a memorable name that will stick in the constituent’s heads when they fill in their ballots.
When it comes to Floridian congressional candidate Eddie Gonzalez, he’s hoping that people remember his domain name instead.
Rather than running on his birth name, he opted to legally change his name to VoteforEddie.com so that it will appear on the ballot as such when the election rolls around in November.

Congressional candidate legally changed his name to VoteforEddie.com so that it can appear like that on the ballot
By ASSOCIATED PRESS and DAILY MAIL REPORTER
PUBLISHED: 22:10 GMT, 30 May 2012 | UPDATED: 22:15 GMT, 30 May 2012
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Political consultants always hope that their candidates have a memorable name that will stick in the constituent’s heads when they fill in their ballots.
When it comes to Floridian congressional candidate Eddie Gonzalez, he’s hoping that people remember his domain name instead.
Rather than running on his birth name, he opted to legally change his name to VoteforEddie.com so that it will appear on the ballot as such when the election rolls around in November.
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Unique name: Eddie Gonzalez changed his name to that of his website to help increase his brand name recognition by voters
A spokesman for the Florida Department of State said Wednesday that officials have no choice because a judge granted the name change request just days after election officials told him he could not use any nicknames.
'As a ministerial office, we have no authority to not permit his legal name to appear on the ballot,' said the spokesman, Chris Cate.
VoteforEddie.com, who lists his home address in the Hialeah area of Miami, is an independent candidate running for a seat in the 25th Congressional District, which includes parts of Broward, Collier and Miami-Dade counties.

He is challenging five-term Republican U.S. Representative Mario Diaz-Balart.
When reached by phone, the independent candidate said he took the unusual step of changing his name as an effort to draw attention to his bid because he will not receive any help from political parties.
'Since I'm not under the wings or good graces of both political parties, I had to find a different way to get my message out there,' he said.

Campaign finance reports filed with the Federal Election Commission show Mr Diaz-Balart had raised about $608,400 as of March 31, compared to about $2,400 for Eddie for Congress.
He also said he wanted to make sure that Mr Diaz-Balart had an opponent during this year's general election, since he was re-elected without opposition in 2010.
A spokesman for Mr Diaz-Balart's campaign declined to comment Wednesday on Mr Gonzalez changing his name to VoteforEddie.com.
Besides running for Congress, the candidate says on his website that he was born in 1980 to Cuban immigrants, attends college and is working on a business degree.
He says he represents 'the working class' and that he's running as an independent because people are upset with both parties for gridlock in Washington D.C.
In spite of the legal change, he is still identified as Eddie Gonzales in the 'About Me' section of his website.
In his only campaign video, the 32-year-old talks about the need to end the nation's dependence on foreign oil and concludes: 'I am VoteforEddie.com and I approve this message.'
The video also misses the mark at one point, where it gets the wording of the common saying 'to pay lip service' wrong by saying that the standard politicians 'play' such service to big oil.
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[Daniel Smith]

And they allow this?

[RyanH]

Hello, I am Voteforeddie.com nice to meet you.

[Bobie]

dumb idea with the name change, i like some of his policies though.

also lol at the picture of iran's leaders "threats from other nations" and "we're the country that won ww2"

[Cypher_09]

"This is the country that won World War II"

Fuck off

[Pinkest Catgirl]

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First thing I thought of.

[-Get_A_Life-]

[QUOTE=Cypher_09;36144227]"This is the country that won World War II"

Fuck off[/QUOTE]

Pretty much this. Although I can't really blame him as it seems everyone over there seems to believe so. I like his ideas overall, now to see if he'd be able to apply them. And seriously... Voteforeddie.com?

[Bound]

[QUOTE=Cypher_09;36144227]"This is the country that won World War II"

Fuck off[/QUOTE]

He changed his name to voteforeddie.com, he's gonna have a few screws loose.

[Jetblack357]

Now we need to make a law allowing only one name change.

[Jocke]

My name is Joakim Hansson. And I'm pretty sure no one gives a fuck

[Manaweaver]

This reminds me of our local nutjob. There is this politician here that changed his name to Goodspaceguy and believes in conspiracy theories and wants to colonize space or something.

This is his blog. Have fun.
[url]http://colonizespace.blogspot.com/[/url]

[AceOfDivine]

My name is voteforeddie.com, and this is politics.

[SquidsEye]

I keep misreading it as votefreddie.com

[paramud]

[QUOTE=squids_eye;36148916]I keep misreading it as votefreddie.com[/QUOTE]

Change your name to votefreddie.com and run against him.

[Cush]

Reminds me of Basil Marceaux, always says 'dot com' after his name.

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[mastermaul]

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Vote for Eddie.