Welcome to 'SugarDaddie.com, USA'

Dating website wants to rename Texas city for $4.65 million

The upscale Houston suburb of Sugar Land is the recipient of a very odd solicitation. The dating website SugarDaddie.com, which helps match wealthy men and women with eager lovers, is offering the city a hefty sum of money in exchange for giving up its identity. Some would say its soul.

"SugarDaddie.Com, USA" would be the new moniker for the city of 80,000 if Mayor James A. Thompson agrees to the $4.65 million bid, reports TIME. And while Thompson has thus far "politely declined" the offer in an informal fashion, he's expected to announce his decision to accept or reject the offer from SugarDaddie CEO Steven Pasternack on Tuesday.

"We are very serious about branding the city and giving birth to the first dating site-sponsored city in America," said Pasternack, who chose Sugar Land due its similarity to his site's URL and presumably its reputation for money, class and the good life, all things SugarDaddie.com would like to think it represents.

If Pasternack's bid fails, he claims, the jurisdictions of Sugar City, Colorado, and Sugar Creek, Missouri are next in line for consideration. Unfortunately for the site's image, neither locale can tout the demographic chic of Sugar Land, whose median income is over twice that of the Texas average.

Via TIME.

Should the city of Sugar Land accept this bid to buy its name?

[NTBFW]

Truth or consequences NM sold out to a game show. If they want to sell out its their business.

[PoliticalSpice]

Is that really how that town got its name?

[NTBFW]

@PoliticalSpice yes. It's real name is hot springs. I think the contract is up and they are changing it back.

[PoliticalSpice]

@NTBFW I drove by it once and always wondered about the sign. Thank youvfor this info...

[NTBFW]

@PoliticalSpice I spent a few months there on business. The locals filled me in.

[jessejaymes]

Dain you need to get a grip man. This is not worth of Politix.

[Medicinebow]

Sometimes Politix puts up the weirdest stuff.

[thatgirl]

Why not just call it what it is? Hooker, TX has a certain cache...

[martydotcom]

No reason to give "Sugar Daddies" a bad name by banishing them to Texas

[jaybebo84]

There is nothing wrong with Texas...

[martydotcom]

Everyone's entiltedvto.their point of view
You can keep odors like Perry and rude disrespectful people like Cruz

[stepped_in_it]

For 4.65 million, I'll change my name to ' SugarDaddie.com , USA'. Then I can become one (a sugar daddie, that is....LOL)

[mtkopf]

I wonder how much I could get for naming my next boy Google (he's due in late May)?

[Libertyiskey]

It's like Idiocracy is really happening.

[Hoosierdaddy]

One of my favorite movies ever!

[mimi57]

They better make sure those 'Sugar Daddies' have a 'Prenuptial Agreement.Com , just 'in case'...sounds like a pretty shallow bunch. Give me the old fashioned way,
loving someone for who they are and not how much $ the have . Pathetic in every way.

[classychazy]

I totally agree! Its a miracle ...lol

[kathyparsell]

Ah, but look at the free advertising.

[jaybebo84]

Interesting offer...I would imagine if a city was in serious financial trouble, they would have to really consider the offer...since it would appear Sugar Land is not, I don't they change their stance on the offer...

[BelinKS]

I'm sure in these times, that amount of money going to the city looks good, but who the hell wants to tell people their from SugarDaddie.com ?

[harold_lloyd]

How inane is this? Words fail me....and that don't happen too often.

[falco_alba]

I really think this should be put to a vote, or the town may very well be deserted in three days. Not sure i would want to live there personally. How do the residents feel about using their hometown for a sleazy dating site marketing campaign?

[Dan_Tien]

This is not what I normally think about when I hear of attempts to create a classless society.

[Keyjo]

I don't live there, so I don't give a damn!

[Keyjo]

Speaking of dating sites, has anyone seen about the women who got raped by a man she met on Christian Mingle!?
Personally, I prefer meeting guys throughout the course of day to day life. At work, at the gym, etc....

[texas_cutie75]

I can't believe she let him in her house for a first meeting! That's insane!

[Keyjo]

@texas_cutie75
But, but, but he was a "Christian!"

[texas_cutie75]

@Keyjo
Strangers are strangers...period!!

[Keyjo]

@texas_cutie75
For sure. Yet how many of us have invited a stranger into our home, or gone home WITH a stranger we just met at a club, for a one night stand?
Okay, okay, maybe not you!
But speaking for myself..........

[texas_cutie75]

@Keyjo
Ha! I'm gonna have to plead the 5th here......

[catiz]

Why not gold diggers.com ?

[MadAmerican]

They sold themselves out as legal whores, might as well go the distance.

[SignifiedNBlue]

Is everyone on drugs???

[Nurse8493]

Please for conservative voters here: not good to use "hell" if you want more votes. No it's not because if memory serves me correctly, we have some of the best freedom fighters living there!