Like your logo the best. Can you put the illustration into a circle floated left of the brand name and make the background of the circle the green color currently in use.
Then make the text black and the background color of the entire space white.
Play on that concept please and also give us any other offerings you can come up with as well.
Would enjoy seeing another direction which is entirely different. Bold text with the L in bleep as an exclamation mark. Something fun, bold, engaging, and goofy.
It would be my preference to grant you the award - keeping the money in America is important to me. Just need some more options to bring to my client in order to sway them to you.