Lindsey Horvath came from the city council of tiny West Hollywood to a seat on the powerful Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors a little more than 100 days ago.
And early in her rookie season with her new club she’s swung for the fences, though not always hitting the ball out of the park. Some say the missed hits are part of her political DNA, that Horvath, 40, a millennial, enjoys jabbing at the status quo as one of the five supervisors and as a director on the 13-member LA Metro governing board.
“She’s not willing to take the quick and easy way out. She wants to take a deeper dive into the issues and ask ‘Is there a better way to do this?’,” summed up Suju Vijayan on Thursday, March 30, a member of the leadership team of East Valley Indivisibles. The group advocates progressive values and endorsed Horvath over her opponent, former state Sen. Bob Hertzberg, D-Van Nuys.
On three occasions in a little more than three months, Horvath has proposed motions to change the way things are done, even adding more supervisors to the board — an idea that has never succeeded.
On the board of supervisors since Dec. 5, she’s tried unsuccessfully to gain approval of a set of renter protections stretching beyond March 31, when the county’s COVID emergency ended. She also teamed with Supervisor Holly Mitchell in failing to bring more transparency to the board. They sought to have agendas and motions available earlier, hire a consultant to pursue expansion of the board to more than five members, and institute public financing of supervisors’ election campaigns.
At LA Metro on March 23, her motion went against a staff recommendation requiring the agency’s CEO to negotiate and approve new contracts with law enforcement. Her motion would have granted final authority to the directors, not the CEO. Her motion failed by one vote and instead the board voted to allow the CEO to extend new law enforcement contracts without board approval.
“To not take that…
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