Censure of Sen. Feinstein fails: Party staffer Bob Mullholland calls bloggers and activists “worse

than Bush” and “pre-nursing home

Let’s start with the good news first, even though there is plenty of bad to come later, given the disgraceful behavior of California Democratic Party staffer Bob Mullholland, caught on video. In just five days, over 33,000 Americans, 90% or more Californians, joined the Courage Campaign call for the California Democratic Party (CDP) to censure Senator Dianne Feinstein for her pivotal votes to approve Judge Michael Mukasey as U.S. Attorney General and Judge Leslie Southwick to the U.S. Court of Appeals. These Americans were joined by the Courage Campaign, MoveOn.org, Progressive Democrats of America, CrooksandLiars.com and over 40 Democratic Clubs and progressive organizations from across California. With a week of non-stop organizing, this movement changed the conversation of the entire meeting of the CDP Executive Board.

Party Chair Art Torres spent about half of his speech on Saturday praising Senator Dianne Feinstein, acknowledging that people within the Democratic Party are upset with a few of her crucial votes. Of course, these weren’t just any votes. They were votes contrary to core Democratic (and democratic) values like opposing torture, racism and homophobia. Despite the party chair’s call not to censure Sen. Feinstein, the censure resolution was endorsed by the Women’s Caucus, the Progressive Caucus and the Irish-American Caucus at the E-Board meeting. Unfortunately, it was never formally taken up or addressed by either the Resolutions Committee or the main body of the Executive Board. Members of the Resolutions Committee objected to hearing it, which meant it could not be brought to the Executive Board — which was within their prerogative, given that it was a late resolution.


This is indeed what CDP Senior Advisor (read: paid party staffer) Bob Muholland said would happen.promised to the Huffington Post:

“It is going to be thrown out and rejected,” said Bob Mulholland, a veteran party strategist in Sacramento. “Sometimes people can’t anticipate or can’t understand the big picture.”

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/11/20/julia-draft/

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and you, Mr. Mullholland aren't in it.

This is what we were told when DEMS supported the war too.

This is essentially what we are always told when DEMS support Bush.

The problem is we understand the big picture juuuuust fine. In fact, we are right and they are wrong.

and this is his idea of gratitude. Well we are older and hopefully a bit wiser now, and hopefully this won't be the end of attempts to get rid of that fucking feinstein.

It's also the kind of thing that makes me wonder if the repubs aren't right when they say, "They're all (politicians of both parties) crooks)."

i've been saying it for years (with a few exceptions)

...to say we don't have the big picture is beyond elitist, it is stupid. We The People were right about the war, we've been right about the judicial nominations, we are right about about the SCHIP program, we are right about universal health, we are right about spending our tax dollars on our infrastructure like on housing, roads, help for the poor, livable wage jobs, and not on bombs. Mulholland is a fool as are all his ilk and needs to go. Buh-bye!

Cat In Seattle

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Putting the dirt back into politics

US Democrat Bob Mulholland introduced Labour to the Excalibur computer system, and they haven't looked back since

Ed Harriman
Thursday May 31, 2001
The Guardian

Bob Mulholland is the US Democrats' leading dirty trickster. He's been an informal adviser to Millbank for years. Mulholland is widely hated by American Republicans, especially in his home state of California."That guy's brought political discourse down to a new low level," Mike Madrid, former political director of California's Republican party recently told me. He thinks that Mulholland is totally cynical, destroying opponents personally and driving down voter turnout. "Total scumbag," said one of his colleagues.

You might say that with Republicans carping like that, Mulholland must be doing something right. But no, Labour wants him kept in the closet.

Which is a pity. Because Mulholland has played a key role as Labour has remodelled itself on cut-throat US politics. He's also shown them the black arts of how to rubbish opponents with their powerful Excalibur com puter, about which Millbank is so secretive.


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http://www.newsreview.com/chico/Content?oid=oid%3A26661

Bob Mulholland

Clever consultant plays party politics
Political columnists have dubbed Bob Mulholland a "bad boy" and recounted his push-the-envelope attempts to forge wins for the Democratic Party, for which he is a strategist and spokesman.

In recent years, he's helped make Tony Blair's Labor Party more "cutthroat," as the industry journal Political Professional described it, quoting Mulholland as saying, "People don't remember the good things about your guy. They remember the bad things about the other guy. That's what sticks. You gotta go negative to win."

Mulholland is known for his penchant for so-called dirty tricks. In a well-known incident that got him temporarily suspended by the party, he showed up at a campaign event (in Chico) and hollered out that Sen. Barbara Boxer's Republican opponent liked to go to nudie bars. The story got picked up statewide, and five days later Boxer narrowly won.

Republican consultant Dan Schnur called Mulholland "the troll under the bridge of California politics," but in Chico circles Mulholland is considered funny and personable.

The Vietnam veteran has been on Larry King Live and served as a delegate to the Democratic National Committee.

Locally, though, Mulholland's wife, longtime Butte County Supervisor and former A.S. President Jane Dolan, is arguably better known.

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Bob Mullholland and DiFi represent the California chapter of the fascist cabal. Most Democrats find torture abhorrent, and feel threatened by the assault on our freedoms launched by the Bush regime on the pretext of protecting us from terrorism. Bob Mullholland and Difi apparently feel that Big Brother knows what is best for us, and that the American people serve the government, rather than the other way around.