by Mark Scaramella
Supervisor Maureen Mulheren (transcript from Facebook video post, Wednesday, October 29, 2025):
“I have been thinking a lot about the way that elected officials… people try to pigeon hold them into one specific point. The one that I always think of that comes up for me is when I was on the Ukiah city council I was opposed to the Great Redwood Trail. I called it the path to nowhere. I thought it was a giant waste of money. And to be honest, at the time it was. But now seeing the bigger vision and now understanding the idea of it, understanding the importance of outdoor recreation, understanding the importance of outdoor recreation and the importance of active transportation… I have just learned a lot about many topics over the last 10 years. I think that when elected officials get locked into a point and say something like, I will never vote for XYZ, you are doing a disservice to the community. There is so much you have to learn and so many opportunities that might arise that might change the path the project was headed down. So if you are in office, if you are running for office, I would just think that you should keep an open mind. Our job is to not vote on anything or have an opinion until we hear from everybody. Some things get headed down a path to where you’ve already made some decisions headed down the path, but there is always important feedback. A lot of times I hear from certain individuals on social media that target me specifically. You don’t see them on my colleagues’ pages. And at the end of the day, I read all those comments and I’m trying to sort through what’s going to make me a better elected official, what valuable information they might have, how to incorporate their feedback… Despite some of it is just being hateful, and rude and unnecessary, honestly. But that’s part of my job. I see my role… I’ve talked about this in the past. You will find that other elected officials are not using social media in the way that I am. I need your feedback to do my job. I just wish people would be more civil if you have questions instead of accusations all the time. I understand the frustration, especially when you don’t know things. And after 10 years of doing this job, there are still plenty of things that I don’t know. I was trying to think of clever taglines like Policy Over Personality, Education Over Anger. There’s so much that we need to do in order to communicate with each other about what’s happening. I appreciate those of you who kind of hang out in the background and don’t say much but are learning and that you have questions that are not accusatory because I think that’s how we move our community forward. All feedback is valuable, but there’s different ways to present it.”
Funny, Supervisor Mulheren had no trouble voting to suspend her fellow elected official, Auditor-Controller/Treasurer Tax Collector Chamise Cubbison, without hearing any details about why DA Eyster filed dubious charges or what evidence there was, and without giving Ms. Cubbison an opportunity to respond. And she was quite willing to promote a very flawed one-sided tax sharing agreement with the City of Ukiah without hearing from her own department heads that her colleagues are now trying to claw back. (To name just two glaring examples; we could have included the abrupt relocation of the Veterans Service Office before asking the veterans first; or the attempt to personally charge the Sheriff for ordinary budget overruns, or the unworkable Strategic Hiring Process…)
But now, apparently, some anonymous facebook posts related to what she no longer believes to be the Great Redwood “Waste of Money” are so “rude” and “unnecessary” that she wants everybody to step back and be more civil and keep an open mind and ask polite questions so she can “educate” us rubes who don’t know things (deplorables?) about how the Great Redwood Boondoggle is not a Boondoggle anymore and have us all crawl back into the background and shut up because, gol-darn it, she’s such a great listener herself and knows so much more than her ignorant critics.
Oh dear, have I been rude? Gosh. Sorry. Nobody made Ms. Mulheren run for office — three times. Nobody made her use facebook to promote herself and her allegedly scrupulous neutrality.
Supervisor Mulheren even goes so far as to recommend that elected officials or even candidates for elected office should not take a position on issues until they have “heard from everybody” — especially fromSupervisor Mulheren (which kind of defeats the whole purpose of democratic elections).
If the Second District Supervisor is so bothered by certain (unspecified) facebook comments, she could imitate DA Eyster and simply block comments on her “Mo4Mendo” facebook page and then her not always so friendly facebook friends would be spared her periodic lectures on civility and the importance of active transportation… boondoggles.
Local homeless advocate Mazie Malone provided some background and clarification of Mulheren’s facebook post:
Just to clear this up, Mo’s video wasn’t about the Great Redwood Trail. It came right after a few of us commented on her post about the Point in Time Count and homelessness. My comment pointed out the gaps in how serious mental illness is tracked and how the numbers don’t match what’s actually happening on the street.
Nobody was rude or nasty to her. If she can’t handle honest feedback, that’s on her. What’s frustrating is she keeps saying she wants to hear from all sides, but when someone gives her a truth she doesn’t like, she shuts down and makes a post praising her co-workers in the system and a doing a live video to deflect critical comments, and take control of the narrative. The thing is the comments from me at least are not a critique of her personally, just on the system that she only sees one side of, not the whole.
Basically, she said if you are not involved in the system, you are stupid and you don’t know what you are talking about. (Was she referring to me? Ha ha ha, right.) She loves those who sit back and don’t say a word and learn from her and do not challenge her.
That’s the same thing the system does. It gatekeeps information, blocks families out, and decides which voices count. You can’t claim to be open to feedback while ignoring the people who live with the reality you’re talking about.
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