Mulholland's Drive: CA Dem Party spokesman Bob Mulholland's close relationship with Tony Blair's Labour Party is getting some attention in the British press.
"Labour wants him kept in the closet," writes Ed Harriman of The Guardian. "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 computer, about which Millbank is so secretive. [H]is contribution to reinventing the Labour machine - and with it the creeping Americanisation of British politics - has been substantial."
Mike Madrid, former political director of California's Republican party, is quoted as saying that Mulholland has "brought political discourse down to a new low level," and another GOP opponent anonymously calls him a "total scumbag."
Mulholland's take: "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.... If there's no knives and guns and it's legal, then what the hell, that's politics." [6/1]
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