Welcome to the Official
Vote for Rick James website
Rick and Diane James have announced that they are
heading up a "ONE MAN MARCH" on Saturday, August 6, 2005. The
march is dedicated to registering people to vote across the entire
United States. This is the first anniversary of the
death of the funk icon who
shared the same name. Because of the renewed interest in the
election process that resulted from the media coverage of my
campaign, we made the decision to further the effort by scheduling a
specific day to register new voters across America, and to encourage
voters to go to the polls for every election.
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Rick James
recently ran for Councilman in
Ward 4 of Hattiesburg, Mississippi. No...not the funk
legend...the REAL Rick James. The 53 year old native of
Alexandria, Virginia, has lived in the Hattiesburg area for the past 20
years. Rick, who has spent more than 25 years in the radio
industry working at stations across the nation resigned a
position as a healthcare worker for the State of Mississippi to run for
a seat on Hattiesburg's City Council.
Somehow this caused quite a stir in the community
since mid-April, when his campaign signs started disappearing from
yards. He later learned how Comedy Central's Dave Chappelle's
impersonation of Rick James had created renewed interest in the King of
Funk...thus the disappearing signs.
Read more about the media frenzy...
Rick's wife. Diane is a 43 year old Native
of Hattiesburg, a Journalism major from the University of Southern
Mississippi. Diane worked for WHLT-TV, Hattiesburg's CBS affiliate,
for more than a decade as an anchor reporter. She also worked as an
assistant to former United States Congressman Ronnie Shows. Both
Rick and Diane worked on Shows' campaigns against Congressman Chip
Pickering. Diane is currently Metro Crime Stoppers Coordinator for
the Hattiesburg Police Department, Petal Police Department,
Forrest County Sheriff's Department and
Lamar County Sheriff's Department.
She supervisors a crime hotline that
takes anonymous tips and rewards area citizens for their
confidential information.
Register to VOTE
Click here for an application
to register to vote in Mississippi. If you are not registered to
vote where you now live, you can use this form to register to
vote or report that your name or. address has changed. The
application is in Portable Document Format (.pdf). If you
do not have Adobe Acrobat Reader, click on the icon below to go
to the Adobe website and download it at no charge.
A Tribute to the King of Funk
Rick James, Grammy Award-winning singer and
songwriter, will forever be remembered as the King of Funk. His
new official site is both a tribute to a world class entertainer
and a source for fans around the world to gather, communicate
and find all the official information on this legendary artist.
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