L.A. County Supervisor Horvath first to file papers to run for elected county executive job

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Set us as preferred Los Angeles County Supervisor Lindsey Horvath, a leading proponent of the successful push to create an elected county executive position, officially is running for the new post.She’s the first to throw her name in the hat for the primary in March 2028.Horvath cruised to reelection in the June 2 primary to represent L.A.

County’s 3rd District, which stretches from the San Fernando Valley to the Westside.The district includes West Hollywood, where she previously served as mayor.

Horvath filed paperwork declaring her candidacy on Monday, checking the box for “nonpartisan” but providing little additional information.She has long been viewed as a top contender for the executive job.“I fight everyday to reform our government because I believe the people of Los Angeles deserve better — a government that works for them, delivers real results, and is accountable to the people it serves,” Horvath said in a statement.

“That’s why I’m running to become Los Angeles County’s first elected County Executive.”Zev Yaroslavsky, a former county supervisor and City Council member who is the director of the Los Angeles Initiative at the UCLA Luskin School for Public Affairs, declined to speculate on her chances.“We don’t even know who else is running, and there are going to be a lot of people running,” he said.

“There are a lot of big names who are thinking about running.”Two years ago, Horvath helped propel a county motion called Measure G to approval by a slim majority of 51.6% of voters.The measure’s success set in motion what will be the eventual expansion of the Board of Supervisors from five to nine members and the creation of both an independent ethics commission and the county chief executive position that Horvath is angling for.Asked this summer whether she planned to run for...