Supervisor has 'no plans' for mayoral bid but doesn't rule it out

Lindsey Horvath knew all the words to “Pink Pony Club.”

- BY JULIA WICK

AL SEIB For The Times

COUNTY Supervisor Lindsey Horvath speaks at an immigration rally in downtown L.A. in September.

It was an overcast Sunday in June, the WeHo Pride parade was in full swing and the hit song about an iconic West Hollywood gay bar was blasting at full volume.

Clad in a sequined, rainbow muumuu, the county supervisor danced atop her pink pony-themed Pride float, swaying and mouthing the lyrics.

Five hours later, Horvath had traded her sequins and rainbow sneakers for a simple black dress and heels.

Now she sat on a wooden pew for evening Mass at her 121-year-old Catholic parish. She still knew all the words, albeit this time to a traditional hymn about the holiness of the Lord.

Horvath, 43, defies easy characterization.

She is the first millennial member of the county Board of Supervisors, a governing body that wields tremendous power despite remaining unknown to most Angelenos.

When elected in November 2022, she went from a relative unknown representing roughly 35,000 people as a West Hollywood City Council member to having more than 2 million constituents across a sweeping 431-square-mile district that sprawls from the Ventura County line down to Santa Monica, east to Hollywood and up through much of the San Fernando Valley.

As the county supervisor whose district contains Pacific Palisades, her public profile exploded in the wake of the devastating fires and as tensions between her and Mayor Karen Bass first became public.

In recent weeks, the Board of Supervisors has attracted public scrutiny over its decision to approve a multibillion-dollar sexual abuse settlement, accusations of fraudulent claims, and its separate decision to approve a $2-million settlement for the county chief executive officer over a ballot measure voters passed in November.