Man With COPSLIE License Plate Loses Primary For NH House Seat
ROCHESTER, N.H. (CBS/AP) — Human's race ended in defeat.
A candidate who legally changed his name to human — with a lowercase "H'' — lost his bid to run for office in New Hampshire on Tuesday.
The man once known as David Montenegro lost in a primary to incumbent Democratic state Rep. Rose Marie Rogers by a count of 181-30.
Montenegro changed his name in 2012.
He made headlines this year when the state's highest court ruled he could have a vanity license plate that reads COPSLIE.
He had sued after the Division of Motor Vehicles said he couldn't have the plate because it denigrated police officers.
"If I could condense all of the problems that I've seen in New Hampshire government down to a single sound bite small enough to fit on a license plate, 'COPSLIE' would be it," human told WBZ-TV in November 2013.
Rogers was first elected in 2012 and represents Rochester, a city of about 30,000 residents.
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