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Here’s a guy we want making the decisions The Idaho elections are less than two months away, and one gubernatorial candidate has decided that making sparsely attended public speeches and annoying people at county fairs isn’t enough. What’s required is a truly inane, feeble-minded stunt. Thus, Marvin Richardson, an Emmett strawberry farmer, has legally changed his middle name to Pro-Life, and then dropped both his first and last names to circumvent laws designed to keep political issues off the ballot itself. “My name being Pro-Life ... will save a number of babies by the time I die,” he tells reporters, adding, “I’m not a nutty kind of person at all.” Pro-Life plans to run for office every two years; in 2008, he will run for the U.S. Senate—unless, of course, his family intervenes. Pro-Life also tells reporters that “my wife, she’s not into calling me Pro-Life yet.” We can’t imagine why. —Posted by David Kiefaber

September 22, 2006 in Kiefaber | Permalink

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A brave new tactic. Or...is it?
http://tinyurl.com/qu4sv
http://tinyurl.com/per3z
And of course, a classic:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byron_Looper

Posted by: CorruptedJournalist | Sep 22, 2006 10:02:00 AM

This guy should change his name to Pro-douchebag.

Posted by: ChrisM70 | Sep 22, 2006 10:14:44 AM

He's a freak.

Posted by: Pro Football | Sep 22, 2006 10:41:24 AM

I respect the guy. At least he's doing something to try to change things for the way he sees better ( I'm pro-choice myself ). It's a lot better than blowing up clinics.

Posted by: JB | Sep 23, 2006 1:54:45 PM

Not making an opinion on the subject, but the tactic in terms of PR is incredible. The $100 dollars he paid to have his name change is having an unbelievable ROI in terms of publicity.

Posted by: Adbrat | Sep 24, 2006 4:30:54 PM

I remember a radio contest in Vancouver where contestants had to do outrageous things (stunts chosen by the radio station) to be entered to win a million bucks or something.

One guy had to legally change his name to Heywood Jablomie. That was about 10 years ago and I still remember it. Effective? I guess. But not memorable for the right reasons.

Posted by: SlaveToShopping | Sep 25, 2006 10:53:26 PM

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