In the Washington State Voter's Guide, he's listed just under his middle and last names: Goodspaceguy Nelson. I think that's to distinguish him from the other Mike Nelson that's somehow tangentially connected to space colonization. (In other words, he's not the guy pictured on the right)
If you check out Goodspaceguy's blog, you'll see that he is a little unconventional. He's running for Congress on the platform of colonizing orbital space, the moon and mars. That's pretty damn cool. But his blog also has very odd short stories starring himself in the orbital future, and poems about how monorails are like call girls and Cher-impersonators. I think this might be hurting his candidacy, since tech geeks (his base, and there's a lot of them in Seattle) don't know whether to take him seriously or not.
I guess politicians with a sense of humor confuse me sometimes.
(P.S.: Jake, if you moved to Seattle, you could definitely get on the ballot here. There's fewer stripclubs, I know, but anyone can run for office. California and North Carolina we ain't.)
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