The two gay Democrats who failed to advance past Tuesday's special election for the East Bay's 18th Assembly District seat have both endorsed their former queer opponent Janani Ramachandran. She is headed to the August 31 runoff race for the legislative seat that covers Alameda, San Leandro, and a portion of Oakland.
Ramachandran, 29, a social justice attorney who also identifies as lesbian, continues to hold the second-place spot among the eight candidates who sought the Alameda County seat. Based on the updated vote count released Thursday at 4:39 p.m., she now has 14,006 votes, or 23.65% of the ballots counted. On election night she had 9,303 votes.