James Roosevelt Jr., grandson of FDR to Bush -- KNOCK IT OFF!!!!,

Reid Joins Roosevelt Jr. in Calling on Front Group to Cease and Desist

BUZZFLASH NEWS ALERT

Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) today joined James Roosevelt Jr., grandson of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, in calling on the group Progress for America Inc. to cease running its latest television ad, which misleadingly features photos of President Roosevelt in its pitch for Social Security privatization.

As James Roosevelt Jr. writes in his letter to Progress for America, "to compare the courage it took to provide a guaranteed insurance program for our seniors and the disabled to the courage it will take to dismantle the most successful social program in history is simply unconscionable."

In a statement, Senate Reid echoed this call.

"Just days after Armstrong Williams, we once again see White House shills misleading the American people in order to advance the President’s conservative agenda. This ad undermines the integrity of a very serious discussion facing our country, and I join James Roosevelt Jr. in calling for it to be pulled from the airwaves immediately."

A copy of Roosevelt Jr.’s letter is attached.

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January 13, 2005


Progress for America, Inc
P.O. Box 19242
Washington, DC 20036

To Whom It May Concern:

It has come to my attention that your organization has begun running an advertising campaign to promote President George W. Bush’s plan to privatize Social Security and cut benefits. The advertisements that are currently being aired feature President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and his signing of the original Social Security legislation. I find the use of my grandfather’s image and legacy in your campaign to be highly inappropriate.

For seventy years, Social Security has been the bedrock of retirement security for millions of Americans thanks to the efforts of President Roosevelt. My grandfather would surely oppose the ideas now being promoted by this administration and your organization. Not only that, but to compare the courage it took to provide a guaranteed insurance program for our seniors and the disabled to the courage it will take to dismantle the most successful social program in history is simply unconscionable. We should be working to protect and promote Social Security, not cutting benefits for our seniors.

On behalf of my family, I would ask that you cease using my grandfather’s image in your advertising campaign.

Respectfully,

James Roosevelt Jr.

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buzz off... I can bet that will be the answer.

Until we have people marching in the streets, in the millions, bush will not get it

God speaks through Bush. You can't defy god! :)

Why doesn't he emulate F.D.R, when it comes to reasons to declare war.

Can we at least get our terms right?

"Conservatives" The proper terms would be "reactionaries" or "the radical right" or "right wing extremists".