T.I. Launches ‘Respect My Vote’ Campaign

July 30th, 2008 | Posted in Politics | Print This Article

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Rap superstar T.I. has been stripped of his right to vote, but he encourages everyone who’s eligible to vote to turn out at the polls in November and help elect a new president.

Speaking in Washington D.C. on Monday, the felonious rapper announced a new voter registration campaign with “Respect My Vote” as its slogan.

He said, “I can’t vote. So I said, ‘OK, so if I’m going to have to be minus my own vote then the least I could do was urge the masses’. I can replace my vote with at least a million, two million others.

“This is one of the most significant elections of our lifetime. We must get out there and make our voices heard by voting. It’s negligent to sit around and watch an election pass by and not have an influence whatsoever on the outcome. That ain’t sexy.”

T.I., real name Clifford Harris, will begin a 12 month prison sentence in March 2009, after pleading guilty to federal weapons possession charges.