"P. Diddy Launches Group for Youth Vote"

[GreenPartyVoter]

NEW YORK (AP) - Trendsetters, fashionistas, rappers - P. Diddy wants you. Specifically, he's looking for the "sexy people" to help him entice young people and minorities to vote in the presidential election, as part of his new nonpartisan voting initiative called Citizen Change.

"Now we're going to make voting cool," the hip-hop mogul/Broadway actor/marathon runner/fashion designer/perpetual A-lister proclaimed as he trotted out fresh young faces, supermodels and even Democratic strategist James Carville at an event to begin his drive.

"For the first time in history, we're going to make voting fashionable," he said.

Of course, this hardly is the first time a celebrity has been involved in politics, or that rockers or rappers have tried to get out the vote. In recent years, Rock The Vote has enlisted stars including Madonna to appearing in public service announcements urging young people to vote, while MTV and BET have had campaigns to increase voter registration. And another hip-hop mogul, Russell Simmons, has had his Hip-Hop Summit Action Network hold several gatherings in cities across the nation to register voters.

http://apnews1.iwon.com/article/20040721/D83URTJO0.html

[noiretextatique]

1. i saw a commercial on MTV

:thumbsup: this is a fantastic idea.

[GreenPartyVoter]

2. I should have posted this under the other thread I saw on this

They had made some great little avatars and everything to support this.

[VolcanoJen]

3. On CNN, P Diddy vowed to make voting "Hot and Sexy."

You know what? I think that's great!!

P Diddy told Judy Woodruff that the hip-hop community knows how to make anything desirable to the 18-34 crowd... cars, music, jewelry, designers, branded alcohol. He vows to do the same for voting, and he says we haven't seen anything yet.

If voting can be the new "bling," then I'm all for it, personally. Whatever gets people plugged-in to politics, and to the polls, is a good thing. :D

VOTE OR DIE.

[ClintonTyree]

5. Immediately afterward..................

Prune face Judy Woodrufffffff called him "Puff Daddy", Sean didn't hear it, it was taped. I'm sure he would have set her straight. This is a great idea, young minority folks need someone to shake them up and get them involved, whatever their political position.

[VolcanoJen]

6. Did she hear him when he invited her to party on his campaign bus?

I don't think she heard that part, either. :D

[AntiCoup2K4]

4. While I find his music to be useless disposable unoriginal crap.....

....I'm all for his current efforts :)

[aden_nak]

7. The trick is projecting the image that he actually cares about voting.

Usually when pop culture icons do one of these things, they show up, read a trite speech about how important voting is, sing about a 2 minute song, and then get the fuck out of there so they can go play a gig they get paid for. Hopefully this will be different.

[donsu]

8. I dig Diddy and know he will be successful at making voting cool

his Making The Band was excellent and should be studied, if it isn't already.

[qanda]

9. Woodruff asked him last night

If this was just a Democratic ploy. He told her it wasn't partisan and he's just trying to give the youth a voice by having them vote. I really could have just slapped her face.

[PROGRESSIVE1]

10. Read my Sig Line.

[Laughing Mirror]

11. Getting people to vote is a Democratic ploy?

What could be more democratic than the right to vote, Ms. Woodruff? Do you even listen to yourself when you talk?