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Top Dems make their pitch to head DNC

WASHINGTON, Jan. 18 (UPI) -- Democrats looking to chair the Democratic National Convention campaigned at a meeting of the Democratic National Mayors Conference in Washington, Tuesday.

Seven candidates spoke before the conference in Washington, with apparent front-runner and former presidential candidate Howard Dean leading off the charge.

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"If you want to win you've got to start at the bottom, and that's what we're going to do," Dean told the assembled Democratic mayors. Dean promised to devote more resources to local-level politics, telling the group, "This is all about local politics."

Dean, the former governor of Vermont, was joined by New Democrat Network head Simon Rosenberg, former Denver Mayor Wellington Webb, former Reps. Martin Frost of Texas and Tim Roemer of Indiana, Democratic activist Donnie Fowler and former Ohio Democratic Party Chair David Leland.

Delegates to the Democratic National Committee vote Feb. 12 on a chair to replace outgoing leader Terry McAuliffe.

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