Pro-Hillary Denver Group Challenges Pelosi and Dean: Would You Have Kept FDR's Name Off the Ballot?

July 17, 2008 (LPAC)--The second in a series of ads being run by the Denver Group--which is part of the pro Hillary Clinton coalition fighting for an open convention--appears in the July 17th edition of Congressional Quarterly Daily, which circulates widely on Capitol Hill and beyond. The ad features a big picture of Franklin Roosevelt followed by a bold headline: "Would Howard Dean and Nancy Pelosi have kept his name off the ballot?" The text reports that Franklin Roosevelt went to the 1932 Convention 90 votes short of the nomination and went on to win on the fourth ballot.

That historic reference is featured prominently--and far more fully--in the "1932" video featured on the LPAC web site.

Pointing out that neither Barack Obama nor Hillary Clinton have secured a majority of the delegates, the group demands an Open Convention with Clinton's name placed in nomination, a roll call vote, and an opportunity for super-delegates to vote their conscience. The ad concludes: "If some in the DNC are afraid that a democratic process could produce a result different from a preconceived set of expectations, as someone once said, the only thing we have to fear is fear itself."