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Rock the Vote Is Stuck in a Hard Place ($700k in debt, left with 2 employees)
LA Times ^ | February 7, 2006 | Charles Duhigg

Posted on 02/07/2006 7:55:02 AM PST by Cableguy

For more than a decade, the youth-and-civics group Rock the Vote has been the coolest kid on the political playground.

Founded in Los Angeles in 1990 with the goal of politically empowering the MTV generation, Rock the Vote quickly became a cause celebre among Democratic and entertainment power brokers. At rock concerts, on college campuses and with ads featuring a near-naked Madonna, the group helped register millions of young voters.

But as it moves into its 16th year, Rock the Vote itself is being rocked by crisis.

Saddled with about $700,000 in debt, the group has cut its staff from more than 20 people in 2004 to just two today. Its president, who left last summer amid disagreement about the organization's direction, has yet to be replaced. And last month, Rock the Vote was sued for the second time in just eight months.

(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: genx; mtv; rockthevote; schlockthevote; toobroketovote; youthvote
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1 posted on 02/07/2006 7:55:03 AM PST by Cableguy
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To: Cableguy

The Bong vote really came through for Gore and Kerry. LOL!


2 posted on 02/07/2006 7:56:57 AM PST by Semper Paratus
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To: Cableguy
Founded in Los Angeles in 1990 with the goal of politically empowering the MTV generation getting liberals elected.
3 posted on 02/07/2006 7:57:20 AM PST by avg_freeper (Gunga galunga. Gunga, gunga galunga)
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To: Cableguy

Vote or die? LOL


4 posted on 02/07/2006 7:58:47 AM PST by Petronski (I love Cyborg!)
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To: Cableguy

The biggest problem they face is apathy, or....whatever.


5 posted on 02/07/2006 7:59:52 AM PST by ko_kyi
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To: Cableguy

Funny


6 posted on 02/07/2006 8:00:21 AM PST by boomop1
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To: Cableguy
with the goal of politically empowering the MTV generation

Incomplete sentence. Their goal was and is to persuade dummy teens and college students to vote for leftists.

7 posted on 02/07/2006 8:00:32 AM PST by Lizavetta
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To: Cableguy

They forgot the "vote" and concentrated on the "rock."


8 posted on 02/07/2006 8:01:19 AM PST by i_dont_chat
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I registered to vote through Rock The Vote at Lollapaloza when Metallica Headlined it. I specifically waited till this concert to register after I moved to NC in hopes that it would annoy them that they registered a republican voter.


9 posted on 02/07/2006 8:05:15 AM PST by Phantom Lord (Fall on to your knees for the Phantom Lord)
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To: Cableguy
Ah, young voters.

18-year-olds have the worse voting record.

19-year-olds have the second worse voting record.

20-year-olds have the third worse voting record.

21-year-olds have the next worse voting record.

I'm glad that the oldsters have the best voting record. Older voters run the country and have, coincidentally, the most maturity and life experiences.
My thanks to the young voters, all 10 of them, for voting. They are shining examples.

10 posted on 02/07/2006 8:10:26 AM PST by starfish923 (Socrates: It's never right to do wrong.)
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To: Cableguy

Bwhahahaha!


11 posted on 02/07/2006 8:11:07 AM PST by RockinRight (Attention RNC...we're the party of Reagan, not FDR...)
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To: Phantom Lord
I registered to vote through Rock The Vote at Lollapaloza when Metallica Headlined it. I specifically waited till this concert to register after I moved to NC in hopes that it would annoy them that they registered a republican voter.

Good on you!

You can BET they were annoyed. Lol.

12 posted on 02/07/2006 8:11:32 AM PST by starfish923 (Socrates: It's never right to do wrong.)
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To: Cableguy

P!ss Diddy has 700K worth of bling on just his left hand.


13 posted on 02/07/2006 8:14:31 AM PST by digger48
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in hopes that it would annoy them that they registered a republican voter

I don't know the law in NC, but in Masshole-chusetts they are not legally obligated to process the registrations.

When I was volunteering on the Romney campaign we made sure that people were aware of this fact.
14 posted on 02/07/2006 8:14:57 AM PST by HEY4QDEMS (Learn from the past, don't live in it.)
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To: Semper Paratus

"The Bong vote really came through for Gore and Kerry. LOL!"

Too stoned to find their polling places! Oh, yea, I forgot -- they were disenfranchised -- that E-V-I-L Karl Rove and Diebold!


15 posted on 02/07/2006 8:15:11 AM PST by Polyxene (For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel - Martin Luther)
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To: starfish923

I think the numbers work out to about $15,000.00 per vote. Another success story for the democrats. Thank gawd for the dead voting, otherwise, they wouldn't stand a chance.


16 posted on 02/07/2006 8:15:26 AM PST by small voice in the wilderness (Hillary/Obama Nation '08. Let The Desolation Begin.)
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To: starfish923
Older voters run the country and have, coincidentally, the most maturity and life experiences.

They are also insatiably greedy. Why do you think they STILL have SS, Medicare and now free drugs?

The "Greatest Generation" should surrender the title.

17 posted on 02/07/2006 8:15:39 AM PST by nonliberal (Graduate: Curtis E. LeMay School of International Relations)
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To: HEY4QDEMS

Well, I got my registration cards shortly there after, so they did the right thing and processed it.


18 posted on 02/07/2006 8:16:13 AM PST by Phantom Lord (Fall on to your knees for the Phantom Lord)
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To: starfish923
I'm glad that the oldsters have the best voting record.

Funny, I thought it was dead people, at least in Democrat precincts.

19 posted on 02/07/2006 8:16:50 AM PST by antiRepublicrat
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Let Puffy or P Diddy or Piddly or whateverhisnameisnow help 'em out. His "Vote or Die" campaign was so successful. I forget, did they die yet?


20 posted on 02/07/2006 8:19:04 AM PST by manic4organic (We won. Get over it.)
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