ROCK THE VOTE

Rock the Vote, the 15-year-old nonprofit group aimed at registering young voters, is about $700,000 in debt with a dwindling staff, which former officials say is due to conflicting priorities, reports the Los Angeles Times. Jehmu Greene, a former president of the group who left last summer, says the group’s board members, mostly music-industry executives, care more about visibility for their clients and less about furthering the organization’s mission. The group’s chairman, Fred Goldring, a music lawyer, blames diminishing donations for the financial woes, likening the nonprofit group to the “popular kid who never gets asked out because everyone thinks he already has a date.”