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Son of a World War II veteran, Mulholland fought in the Vietnam War, where he served in the 101st Airborne division, 1967-68. He had supported the war at first, but changed his mind as the war dragged on.^[2]

Political career

1970s and 1980s: Tom Hayden

Mulholland started his political career by working with antiwar activist Tom Hayden. The two men had met in the summer of 1975. Mulholland worked with Hayden for 15 years, and ran his two first campaigns for the California State Assembly.^[2]

1990s and 2000s: political consultant

In 1987, Mulholland became consultant for the California Democratic Party^[3], and for the British Labour Party a few years later.^[4]

The November 1991 San Francisco Bay Guardian alleged Mulholland intercepted voter registration cards from Democratic Party voter registration tables of voters who had re-registered Green Party, sending the card back to the voter with a letter on state Democratic Party letterhead, reprinted by the Guardian, asking the voter to reconsider the change of party. After the Green party complained about this to the Secretary of State, Mulholland promised such things would not happen again. Withholding a voter registration card for more than three days is a misdemeanor in California.^[5]

During the 1990s, Mulholland acquired the hatred of Republicans, especially in his home state of California, due to a series of incidents, and statements he made. He was subsequently labelled "The US Democrats' leading dirty trickster" by The Guardian columnist Ed Harriman. Mulholland believed that, in politics, "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." As such, Mulholland would search for dirt in his opponent's past (divorce, bankruptcy, child support problems), and throw it at them during the election campaign.^[4]

An example of this tactic can be seen during the 1992 United States Senate election in California, where Mulholland disrupted one of Bruce Herschensohn's campaign appearance with a large poster advertising a strip club shouting "Should the voters of California elect someone who frequently travels the strip joints of Hollywood?" Herschensohn admitted he had visited a strip club once, with his girlfriend and another couple. With press coverage of the story, Herschensohn spent the waning days of the campaign denying related allegations.^[6] Democratic candidate Barbara Boxer ended up winning the election by five points. Mrs. Boxer denounced Mulholland, and then party chairman Phil Angelides suspended him from his job as the party's political director. He was reinstated two weeks later.^[7]^[8]

During the United States presidential election, 1996, Mulholland suggested that democrats should follow Republican presidential candidate Bob Dole in walking cigarettes costume, and label him "Mr. Puff" to highlight his ties to the tobacco industry.^[4]

Mulholland's participation in the 2000 United States presidential election recount in Florida reportedly induced anxiety among Republicans, fearing he would not act in an impartial manner in this position.^[7]

Mulholland was very critical of then-California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. He claimed that "Arnold Schwarzenegger is a scoundrel, he's not a man who keeps his word. He'll look you in the face, make a pledge and then an hour later will say the opposite. His tenure has been all sizzle, no steak. He's acting as if he's still on stage. Truth or lies, it's of no concern: he's lied all his life to promote his career." On his height, Mulholland claimed Schwarzenegger was 5'10" (instead of his official height of 6'2") and that he wore "risers in his boots", a metaphor for his political ambitions.^[9]

He participated in killing a 2007 proposal that the party censure U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein for her failure to oppose the confirmation of Judge Michael Mukasey as U.S. Attorney General.^[10]^[11] He is quoted as saying "It is going to be thrown out and rejected. Sometimes people can't anticipate or can't understand the big picture."^[12]

In the United States presidential election, 2008, he criticized John McCain for his age and for contemplating a campaign for California's electoral votes.^[13]

2010s: Democratic National Committee proposals

Mulholland is a member of the Democratic National Committee from California, and a superdelegate at the Democratic National Convention. Mulholland supported Hillary Clinton in the 2016 Democratic Party presidential primaries.^[14]

In February 2017, Mulholland was a vocal opponent of a resolution at the DNC which would have banned donations from Corporate Political action committees to the DNC. This ban was first imposed by presidential nominee Barack Obama in 2008, but was removed by then-DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz in 2016.^[15] Mulholland also opposed the nomination Keith Ellison as DNC chairman, calling him a "tax cheat", and thus unqualified for this position. Mulholland was referring to an unpaid traffic ticket which lead to Ellison's drivers licence being suspended in 2006.^[5]

In October 2017, Mulholland proposed a resolution at the DNC urging Independent Senators Bernie Sanders from Vermont and Angus King from Maine to join the Democratic Party, with which they are already caucusing. The resolution was denied a vote at the meeting.^[16]

During this DNC meeting in October 2017, Mulholland suggested that it is useless for the Democratic Party to do outreach for rural white voters. “The majority of white people in America have not voted for us since 1964,” he said. “White people… are not interested in our program.”^[17]

Mulholland has been a vocal critic of the proposal to significantly decrease the influence of superdelegates in the democratic presidential candidate nomination process. Mulholland compared it to the violent suppression of the civil rights movement. In an email to Tom Perez and Keith Ellison, he accused them of "conspiring with Bernie Sanders to block Congress members John Lewis, Maxine Waters, Barbara Lee and the rest of the congressional delegation, Governors, State Party Chairs and the rest of us DNC Members from entering our Convention floor in 2020 as voters”, with an attached picture of the police beating Lewis in 1965 during a civil rights protest. “I don’t know if you will have paid thugs at the doorways to beat up Congressman Lewis and the rest of us or not”, he added.^[18] Mulholland also suggested that this proposal is part of a Russian plot. He bases this claim on the fact that an avowed Jill Stein voter from West Virginia has been attending multiple DNC's rule and bylaws committee national meetings to promote the proposal. Mulholland wrote that he then “concluded someone is picking up her expenses” and that “The Putin operation is still active.” He admitted he processes no evidence for this claim.^[19]^[18]

Family

He is married to Jane Dolan, who was defeated June 2010 in her reelection for Butte County Supervisor of the second district in California after over 30 years of service in this position.^[20]

External links

References

1. ^{{Cite web|url=https://cdn0.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/7977435/2016-2020_DNC_MEMBER_ROSTER_SIMPLE.0.pdf|title=DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP ROSTER 2016 - 2020|last=Rawlings-Blake|first=Stephanie|date=January 26, 2017|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=}}
2. ^¹{{Cite web|url=https://www.cadem.org/our-party/body/Newsletter-11-16.pdf|title=THE PASSING OF TOM HAYDEN|last=Mulholland|first=Bob|date=November 2016|website=CALIFORNIA DNC|publisher=CALIFORNIA DNC PRESS DEMOCRAT Newslette|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=}}
3. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.c-span.org/person/?bobmulholland|title=Bob Mulholland {{!}} C-SPAN.org|website=www.c-span.org|language=en-us|access-date=2018-07-22}}
4. ^¹²{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2001/may/31/election2001.uk5|title=Comment: putting the dirt back into politics|last=Harriman|first=Ed|date=2001-05-31|website=the Guardian|language=en|access-date=2018-07-22}}
5. ^¹{{Cite news|url=https://www.inquisitr.com/3815763/dnc-member-keith-ellison-is-a-tax-cheat-and-shouldnt-be-chairman/|title=DNC Member: Keith Ellison Is A ‘Tax Cheat’ And Shouldn’t Be Chairman|date=2016-12-21|work=The Inquisitr|access-date=2018-07-22|language=en-US}}
6. ^{{Cite news |first=Dean E. |last= Murphy | author=|author2=Shuit, Douglas P. | title = U.S. Senate Candidates Crisscross State for Votes Politics: Herschensohn reacts angrily to accusation that he went to strip joint, frequented adult newsstand. |url=http://articles.latimes.com/1992-10-31/news/mn-718_1_strip-joint |work=Los Angeles Times |date=October 31, 1992 |accessdate=March 31, 2010 | quote=A clearly shaken Herschensohn, who has embraced the GOP "family values" platform, at first refused to comment on the accusations, calling them "a pretty desperate thing." But he later conceded that he once visited the Seventh Veil nude-dance club in Hollywood...}} The authors were LA Times staff writers.
7. ^¹{{cite news|url=http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/comment111700g.shtml|title=Beware the Trickster: Bob Mulholland oversees the recounting of the ballots in Florida|last=Steinberg|author=|first=Arnold|date=2000-11-17|work=National Review|accessdate=2008-12-07|archiveurl=|archivedate=|publisher=|location=|page=|pages=|language=|id=|quote=That vintage Mulholland maneuver made it all but impossible for Herschensohn to stay on-message during the campaign's crucial closing days.|authorlink=|coauthors=}} Steinberg is a Republican political strategist in Sherman Oaks.
8. ^{{cite news|url=http://www.opinionjournal.com/diary/?id=110007637|title=Arnold's 'Harriet Miers Moment' - Has Gov. Schwarzenegger jumped the shark?|last=Fund|author=|first=John|date=December 5, 2005|work=John Fund on the Trail - WSJ.com|accessdate=2008-12-07|archiveurl=|archivedate=|publisher=Wall Street Journal|location=|page=|pages=|language=|format=|id=|quote=|authorlink=John Fund|coauthors=}}
9. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.arnoldwatch.org/articles/articles_000488.php3|title=The Governator II: At first it seemed like a bad joke|date=October 7, 2004|publisher=Arnoldwatch.org|accessdate=March 8, 2010}}
10. ^¹{{cite web|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rick-jacobs/feinstein-censure-killed-_b_73232.html|title=Feinstein Censure Killed Without a Vote|last=Jacobs|author=|first=Rick|authorlink=|date=November 19, 2007|year=|work=Huffington Post|publisher=|pages=|language=|doi=|archiveurl=|archivedate=|dead-url=|accessdate=2008-12-07|quote=|coauthors=|month=}}
11. ^{{Cite news|url=https://theboard.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/11/20/dianne-feinstein-backlash-on-the-left/?mtrref=duckduckgo.com&gwh=8D96BC1861278E9E62D9089147CD21FB&gwt=pay|title=Dianne Feinstein: Backlash on the Left|last=The Editorial Board|date=November 20, 2007|work=The New York Times|access-date=2018-07-22|language=en}}
12. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/11/15/105921/98|title=CA Dem insider re: Feinstein: "you don't get the big picture" (UPDATE)|last=Atkins|first=Dante|date=November 15, 2007|year=|work=Daily Kos|publisher=|pages=|language=|format=|doi=|archiveurl=|archivedate=|dead-url=|accessdate=2008-12-07|quote=|coauthors=|month=}} Self described "radical leftist angry frothing blogger", probably in California.
13. ^{{cite news|url=http://www.azcentral.com/news/election/mccain/articles/2008/04/30/20080430mccain-strategy0430.html|title=McCain won't concede Calif. to Democrats|last=Nowicki|author=|first=Dan|date=April 30, 2008|work=The Arizona Republic|accessdate=2008-12-07|archiveurl=|archivedate=|publisher=|location=|page=|pages=|language=|id=|quote=|authorlink=|coauthors=}}
14. ^{{Cite news|url=https://lissalucas.com/2017/10/31/the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly-at-the-dnc-meeting-in-las-vegas/|title=The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly at the DNC Meeting in Las Vegas|date=2017-10-31|work=Holler from the Hollers!|access-date=2018-07-22|language=en-US}}
15. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/dnc-pac-contributions-ban_us_58b1ac9ee4b0a8a9b782bb00|title=DNC Members Vote Down Corporate Money Ban|date=2017-02-25|work=HuffPost Canada|access-date=2018-07-22|language=en-CA}}
16. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2017/10/20/democrats-scrap-effort-force-bernie-sanders-democrat/784302001/|title=Democrats scrap effort to force Bernie Sanders to be a Democrat|work=USA TODAY|access-date=2018-07-22|language=en}}
17. ^{{Cite news|url=https://lissalucas.com/2017/10/31/the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly-at-the-dnc-meeting-in-las-vegas/|title=The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly at the DNC Meeting in Las Vegas|date=2017-10-31|work=Holler from the Hollers!|access-date=2018-07-22|language=en-US}}
18. ^¹{{Cite news|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/bob-mulholland-california-dnc-superdelegates-reform-putin-russia_us_5b1d636fe4b09d7a3d73e7bb|title=California DNC Member Suggests Superdelegate Reform Is Part Of Russian Plot|date=2018-06-10|work=HuffPost Canada|access-date=2018-07-22|language=en-CA}}
19. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2018/06/12/bernie-sanders-supporter-attends-every-dnc-reform-meeting-dnc-member-calls-her-a-russian-plant/|title=Bernie Sanders supporter attends every DNC rule-change meeting. DNC member calls her a Russian plant.|last=Weigel|first=David|date=June 12, 2018|website=Washington Post|language=en|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=2018-07-22}}
20. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.newsreview.com/chico/why-dolan-lost/content?oid=1458654|title=Why Dolan lost|last=Gascoyne|first=Tom|date=July 22, 2010|website=Chico News & Review|language=en|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=2018-07-22}}