The East Bay Stonewall Democratic Club will not make an endorsement in the open 18th Assembly District special election after neither candidate garnered 60% of the vote during an online meeting August 3.
That means neither queer social justice attorney Janani Ramachandran nor Alameda Unified School Board president Mia Bonta will nab the backing of the East Bay's LGBTQ Democratic club in their race to succeed Bonta's husband, Rob Bonta, who resigned earlier this year to become California's attorney general.
The special election is August 31. Joe Greaves, political action chair of the Stonewall club, stated in an email August 4 that "For this endorsement vote, current members in good standing were given the opportunity to vote through the