With the retirement of Sheila Kuehl, the position of Los Angeles County Supervisor for District 3, which covers most of the San Fernando Valley, Beverly Hills, parts of Los Angeles, Santa Monica and West Hollywood.
Each of the three main candidates has experience and knowledge. State Senator Bob Hertzberg dominates the back and forth of government in Sacramento. Also state senator Henry Stern is an emerging force.
However, Real America News considers that Lindsey Horvath, councilor and two-time mayor of West Hollywood, is the most qualified to occupy this position.
Despite her youth, Lindsey Horvath is an experienced leader in community work and in organizations that serve the people.
She is considered a leader of the Californian progressive political movement.
She is also President of California Contract Cities, former president of Women in Municipal Government of the National League of Cities and a member of the executive committee of the Clean Power Alliance, among other public functions.
Horvath led the local response to COVID-19. She streamlined paperwork to help businesses expand outdoor operations and provided rental relief. She created the first domestic violence community response team
Under her direction North Hollywood was the first in the nation to impose financial penalties on Arizona for its anti-immigrant SB-1070.
She is a defender of LGBTQ rights, including her older adults through the Board of Services and Advocacy for the Elderly GLBT.
Successfully advocated for full funding of the unproven rape kit evidence backlog in the city and county.
“I led West Hollywood to opt for energy 100% renewable, inspiring other cities to do the same”, he says in a document sent to Real America News.
she Emphasizes the responsibility of governments to guarantee access to clean drinking water.
Dice to describe your recent work, “I have done and am doing the work required of a Los Angeles County Supervisor.”
In addition to her public service, she works as an entertainment advertising executive and has created award-winning campaigns for film and television. She has a bachelor’s degree Cum Laude in Political Science and Gender Studies from the University of Notre Dame.
As a supervisor, she will apply West Hollywood models that could work throughout the county.
“We need Los Angeles County to step up and protect workers’ rights while creating a thriving local economy. We need sustainable housing and services for people and public safety services that keep us all safe.”
To promote solutions to the housing shortage, she points to “business corridors…existing business buildings” that they are underutilized. The money is there, from Measure H and Proposition HHH, and also from untapped state resources, he adds.
In criminal justice, prioritizes attention systems, instead of punishment. She supports Measure J, which funds and prioritizes community programs and alternatives to incarceration.
Supports the end of cash bail and the development of programs that do not unfairly incarcerate unconvicted persons. It proposes that police officers and social workers jointly carry out the jobs for which they are trained.
In immigration policy, it supports sanctuary city policies.
Because of its extensive experience in supporting the community in her city, as the only local on the ballot, her vision of collaboration with Latino organizations and media, due to the intensity she has shown over the years, receives the support of Real America News. So on June 7, she votes for Lindsey Horvath for County Supervisor!
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