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Jeremy Green Eche seized the opportunity and purchased the online site HarrisWalz. com for $8. 99 in 2020, when she was a senator. Kamala Harris of California is running for the Democratic nomination for president.
“I just tried to get his call back and the calls from all the governors in the center of the country that I can think of,” he recalled Monday in an interview with The Associated Press.
Four years later, if Harris chooses Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate, Eche could receive only one payday. He’s willing to sell it, along with a dozen other Harris websites, for $15,000, he says.
This is not a new situation for the 36-year-old trademark attorney from the Brooklyn borough of New York. Eche is a cybersquatter, a user who buys a domain with someone else’s name or logo for very little money, hoping to sell it. to that user or logo to obtain a significant benefit in the following months or years. This is also known as domain investing as it can generate significant profits.
In 2011, five years before Hillary Clinton chose Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine as her running mate in the presidential race, Eche, then known as Jeremy Peter Green, before they married, bought ClintonKaine. com. After the former Secretary of State made his choice, the squatter presented him to the crusade in exchange for a gigantic reward. They refused, so he sold it for $15,000 to a virtual marketing company that turned out to be Trump’s crusade. It carried anti-Clinton data with “Paid through Donald J. Trump for President, Inc” written at the bottom.
Harris spent the weekend interviewing a half-dozen potential vice presidential candidates, including Walz, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona, Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear, Illinois Gov. J. B. Pritzker, and Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, according to two other people with knowledge of Harris’ variety process. The other people spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss personal campaign deliberations.
He is said to be making a decision imminently and has a list of events planned with his partner this week.
Eche told the AP that he had not been contacted through anyone linked to the Harris campaign. In 2016, it was a week after Clinton chose Kaine before he connected with someone from the Clinton campaign, and that was because he had a connection to the operation. .
He’s skeptical that Harris’ crusade will resolve itself before she makes her official decision.
“Hopefully the other (Harris) people are a little wiser than the other Clinton people,” he said.
Eche has at least 15 websites similar to Harris and her imaginable variety of vice presidential candidates. In addition to Walz, he also owns HarrisPritzker. com, a nod to the governor of Illinois; HarrisEvers. com, Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers; HarrisFetterman. com, by Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman; HarrisWarnock. com, by Georgian Senator Raphael Warnock; HarrisPeters. com, by Michigan Senator Gary Peters; and several others.
But Eche has a favorite among his long-term candidates.
“Walz is my favorite,” he said. “Of the other people he thinks of, Walz makes the most sense. “
It also has 10 websites showcasing Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and other Democrats in preparation for a conceivable 2028 presidential bid.
Walz d’Eche’s online page is now just a blank chartreuse with the governor’s call in lowercase black letters, a callback to artist Charli President Joe Biden’s crusade, allowing the vice president to take charge of his operation.
It’s his spouse’s idea, he says. But the site links to his startup’s online page — Communer, a site for buying and promoting domain names and brands — where he offers Harris’ directory for $15,000.
Eche supported Clinton in 2016 and is supporting Harris this cycle. However, his experience in 2016, where his online page was transformed into a pro-Trump site, gave him a break from promoting Harris’ sites this time.
“Harris’ crusade has many millions of dollars at its disposal, so if they don’t buy their own domain, that’s partly their responsibility,” he said. “I have to sell it to someone. I know maybe I just donate it, but that’s not how it works. People who have billboards don’t donate their billboards to the field. In fact, it’s just a property.
A spokesperson for Harris did not immediately respond when asked if she was contemplating purchasing the properties.
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