Welcome!  My name is Rafael Mandelman. Two years ago the Democrats of the 13th Assembly District elected me to San Francisco’s Democratic County Central Committee. 

The DCCC is the governing board for San Francisco’s Democratic Party.  We make endorsements in local races and on ballot measures, register voters and help get out the vote, and take positions on the issues of the day.  In 2006, I argued that as a market-regulating, wealth–redistributing, labor-backing, tenant-protecting, Green-sympathizing liberal, I was a pretty good fit to help lead our party in one of the most unabashedly progressive places in the country.  Apparently the voters agreed.  

Since my election in 2006, I have worked with others on the DCCC to register nearly 15,000 voters, to support the dedicated Democratic activists who do the hard work of building our Party door-to-door, on street corners, and outside supermarkets, and to recruit and elect excellent candidates for local office.  Occasionally, I have even gotten to raise a little well-mannered hell.

I am still proud to be a San Francisco kind of Democrat, and I still believe I am a good fit to represent the 13th Assembly District on the DCCC.  I hope you agree, and I hope to have your support for my re-election campaign.