Blair-Linked Democratic Official Cited in Dirty Operations Versus Clinton Campaign

April 10, 2008 (LPAC)--A California Democratic Party official with close ties to Iraq war promoter and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has been implicated in the "pruning" of nine members of the LaRouche Youth Movement (LYM) from the list of candidates for Sen. Hillary Clinton, as pledged delegates to the Democratic Party National convention. Bob Mulholland, an ill-tempered thug who works out of party offices in Sacramento, tipped off the Sacramento Bee on April 6 that delegates tied to LaRouche would be purged.

Among the thirty-six prospective delegates for Sen. Clinton who were purged from the lists on April 9, were LYM leaders and party activists Quincy O'Neal, a member of the Los Angeles County Democratic Party (LACDP) Central Committee, and Vice Chair of the California Democratic Party African-American Caucus; Creighton Cody Jones, an alternate member of the LACDP Central Committee, who was selected "Democrat of the Year" in 2006 in the 43rd Assembly District; Francisco Medina, leading member of the Chicano-Latino Caucus; and Jonathan Stewart, an elected member of the Alameda County (Oakland) Democratic Party Central Committee.

These LYM members are also officials of the Franklin Roosevelt Legacy Democratic Club, which is committed to reviving the best tradition in the Democratic Party, that of FDR, whose battle for American System economic policies not only got the U.S. out of the Hoover Depression and enabled us to defeat global fascism in World War II, but embodied an explicit rejection of the corporatist fascist policies of the British Empire in the post-war period. Lyndon LaRouche has been the leading spokesman for reviving this FDR tradition since the late 1960s, when the Democratic Party fell increasingly under the control of London-centered, anti-American, post-industrial financial interests.

Mulholland, a long-time operative and paid party staffer, has been an aggressive opponent of Lyndon LaRouche's campaign to restore the FDR tradition in the Democratic Party. A preliminary investigation has confirmed that Mulholland's loyalties are not to the traditional FDR constituencies in the Democratic Party, among the lower 80% of family-income brackets, but to high-level British Imperial interests. Mulholland's ties to the "New Labor" of Tony Blair go back to 1992, when Blair operatives Margaret McDonagh and Alan Bernard opened a working relationship with him, which has continued to the present. McDonagh - now Baroness McDonagh - ran Blair's 1997 campaign, served as General Secretary of the Labor Party, and was appointed as Blair's special envoy to Iraq from 1998 to 2001. Democrats should remember that it was Blair's lying, "sexed-up" intelligence report on Saddam's alleged possession of weapons of mass destruction, which gave the Bush-Cheney administration its most compelling reason for launching the Iraq war.

Perhaps this explains why Mulholland threatened Democrats at the Executive Board meeting last November, when they introduced a resolution to censure Sen. Diane Feinstein for her vote to confirm Mukasey as U.S. Attorney General, after Mukasey refused to rule out the use of torture of suspected "enemy combatants," or why the Party honored Speaker Pelosi at the recent state convention, despite her role in suppressing moves to impeach Vice President Cheney for his continuing unconstitutional role in promoting the Iraq war, and his drive for war with Iran.

While the story is that Mulholland, who has a reputation as an "attack dog", would teach Blair's operatives how to run a "down-and-dirty" campaign, using his brand of "cut-throat U.S. politics," Mulholland is, in reality, serving the interests of Blair's City of London fascist controllers. His actions to purge the LYM activists, who are the leading proponents of the Franklin Roosevelt, anti-Imperial tradition in the party, will have a further disastrous effect, in suppressing the involvement of youth and minorities in the general election campaign, if it is not reversed.