Agoura Hills Senator Announces Run For LA Co. Supervisor
AGOURA HILLS, CA — State Sen. Henry Stern Thursday officially announced his candidacy for the Third District seat on the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors being vacated by Sheila Kuehl.
Stern is currently a senator representing most of the San Fernando Valley. He announced his candidacy standing on a street in Sherman Oaks via Zoom. He waited until the county's districts were redrawn, he said, following the new map's approval Wednesday.
He indicated that, if elected, he would focus on quality-of-life issues in L.A. County.
"We started here because this is where you are. People are living in our streets, people are dying on the streets, and nobody feels safe on the streets in LA anymore. That's a problem that the county has to fix," Stern said in an announcement video on Twitter.
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In his announcement, Stern mentioned his work in the area on wildfires, the COVID-19 pandemic and addressing homelessness.
In his time as an elected official, Stern has sought to bolster the state's wildfire preparedness, push to have the state address climate change, change the state's election laws, aid people with intellectual and developmental disabilities and assist the elderly and disabled populations.
He was first elected to the senate in 2016 and reelected in 2020. For the 2021-2022 year, Stern will serve on the Climate Change Policies Committee, Natural Resources and Water Committee, Environmental Quality Committee and more.
Stern — a Senate Democrat who is seeking what is officially a nonpartisan seat on the five-member Board of Supervisors — joins a field that also includes West Hollywood Councilwoman Lindsey P. Horvath, Los Angeles City Controller Ron Galperin and Assemblyman Richard Bloom, D-Santa Monica. Horvath has been endorsed by Kuehl, Supervisor Janice Hahn and Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti.
Sen. Bob Hertzberg, D-Van Nuys, confirmed on Tuesday to the political news website Politico that he is "seriously considering" running for the seat representing the San Fernando Valley and Westside.
City News Service contributed to this story.
This article originally appeared on the Agoura Hills Patch
