Links:

• Don’t forget that the Bay Bridge will be closed this weekend.

• A consortium of labor groups has given the United Farm Workers $1 million to fight any potential water bond package that doesn’t meet UFW’s stated goals.

• Well, well, here are some state employees that get to skip Furlough Fridays. Workers from the State Compensation Insurance Fund won a legal challenge to their furloughs.

• An analysis of the potential dominoes from the CA-10 election.

• And for your special election results:

   • CA-10: Link here.

   • AD-51: Link here. and the LA County site here.

UPDATE from the comments: So that emergency responders may have enough time to vote, the polls will remain open until 10PM PDT. for emergency responders only, from what I understand. [Dante]

The SOS page hasn’t loaded, but Garamendi has an early lead in CoCo County with 26%. In Solano with 29% and in Alameda with 32%.

In AD-51, Steven Bradford is just below the 50% mark. It’s going to be tight if he can reach that mark, but that sure would be good for the Assembly Dems if they can get that extra vote sooner rather than later.

[UPDATE by Dave] If you want to follow results and the SoS site is too slow, just look to Contra Costa County.  They have a much larger slice of the population than any other area.  I’ve added up the preliminary results in each of the four counties for the four main opponents, and Garamendi already has close to a 9,000-vote lead:

Garamendi: 22,345

DeSaulnier: 13,827

Buchanan: 9,955

Woods: 6.872

Furthermore, DeSaulnier is performing horribly outside of CoCo County, so he would actually have to win there and probably by a fairly decent amount to have any shot of catching Garamendi.  Which I wouldn’t bet on.

UPDATE by Brian: In AD-51, Steve Bradford has passed the 50% mark at 51.73%. If he maintains this margin, he’ll be sworn in once the results are certified.

UPDATE by Dave: My current numbers are:

Garamendi: 23,151 23,870 24,481

DeSaulnier: 14,323 14,925 15,545

Buchanan: 10,428 10,722 11,096

Woods: 7,191 7,485 7,706

Sacramento County (only about 1,500 registered CA-10 voters) is all in, and Garamendi beat DeSaulnier there 179-5.  Adriel Hampton pulled more votes than DeSaulnier up there.  Alameda is all in too, and Solano and CoCo are over 50%. Garamendi is extending his lead in these numbers.  He’ll be the next Congressman from CA-10.

UPDATE by Dave: The AP basically calls it.

California’s lieutenant governor will face off against the son of a former lieutenant governor for an open U.S. House seat in Northern California.

Lt. Gov. John Garamendi led a pack of well-funded Democrats to take his party’s candidacy with most precincts reporting in the district’s four counties. Garamendi was receiving nearly 27 percent, followed by about 20 percent for attorney Dave Harmer, a Republican.

Harmer is the son of former Lt. Gov. John Harmer.

The runoff will be November 3 and Garamendi will be heavily favored.

AD-51 Update: Looks like Bradford broke 50%, and would join the Assembly once the ballot is certified.  Of course, that could take a while, by which time the Assembly could be out of session.