Apr. 7, Interview - Now we turn to one of those super delegates, Bob Mulholland, long time Democratic party activist. On KPFA's show Sunday Morning with Mitch Jeserich, Mulholland describes and defends the use of Super Delegates.

"As a reminder for your listeners, in 1984 we had a primary all the way to June.. and Gary Hart won this state, and got the most delegates, but Mondale was ahead in pledged delegates, he won New Jersey that day. But he didn't have enough of the nomination so he called 40 super delegates in the next 24 hours and got enough commitments so with in a day or two of California, he was able to announce that he had enough to get the nomination.."

"..I've been around the process for over 25 years. .. the Democratic party has 28 Democratic Governors. Now, 30-40 years ago, these conventions were practically controlled by governors who brought their own delegates, they weren't elected in a caucus. And then when we went, in the late 60 and 70s, to this system of having states do primaries and caucuses - we in California do a primary - is, over the years we said 'wait a minute, we shouldn't exclude democratic governors', after all, their elected by the voters of their state... We're elected by the Democratic party executive board, I was last elected in 2004, .. so we are elected too... we represent democrats at the local level, or the state level, so it's not like Super Delegates are people that just happen to win a raffle somewhere."

That was Bob Mulholland, Super Delegate and member of the Democratic National Committee. He spoke with Mitch Jeserich, host of KPFA's Sunday Morning.

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