L.A. County Supervisors Hilda L. Solis, Holly J. Mitchell, Lindsey P. Horvath, Janice Hahn and Kathryn Barger hold the reins of a kingdom massive in its scope.
On any given Tuesday, the five women who run L.A. County are moving millions. Take the last Tuesday of July 2023. The five county supervisors debated spending $50 million on tenant protections. They put $4 million toward initiatives to advance racial equity. Then they voted to make phone calls free in all county jails — even if they didn’t know exactly how much that would cost. Maybe $12 million. Maybe double that. It didn’t matter. “The numbers are all over the place ...
This year, they will spend roughly as much money as the states of Rhode Island, Delaware and Kansas combined. They employ almost as many workers as the city of Berkeley has residents. It’s why so many politicians in more prestigious positions — state legislators, U.S. representatives and senators — would actually very much like to be county supervisors: You can move fast.
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