Sue Frost will not seek reelection to Sacramento County Board of Supervisors

Sue Frost, the ultraconservative Sacramento County supervisor who has spread COVID-19 vaccine misinformation and worked to fix the county’s crumbling roads from the dais, will not seek reelection in 2024, the supervisor told constituents Tuesday in an email.

Frost, 67, joined the Sacramento County Board of Supervisors in 2017, after terms as the mayor and a city councilwoman for Citrus Heights. She currently represents the 4th District, which includes Antelope, Orangevale, Rancho Murieta, Rio Linda and Elverta.

The announcement was first reported by Rio Linda Online.

Frost has been something of a contrarian on the board. In the spring, she voted against the large raises the supervisors gave themselves, and was the only supervisor to do so.

“Given the fact that many of my constituents are suffering from increased inflation and increased prices, it’s difficult to give myself a raise at the same time others are suffering,” she said. “So I’m gonna go on record as a ‘no’ vote.”

Fabrizio Sasso, executive director of AFL-CIO’s Sacramento Central Labor Council, characterized her as anti-worker.

“She has been very oppositional to working-class people during her time at the county,” Sasso said. “What really sticks out, is … during the pandemic, she wasn’t supportive of ensuring worker protection throughout the county. She voted against an eviction moratorium.”

In September 2020, Frost voted against the Sacramento County Worker Protection, Health, And Safety Act, which required county workers to follow certain COVID safety protocols.

“She hasn’t been good on any of the issues that pertain to social justice,” said Kula Koenig, senior local policy director at Public Health Advocates. “Basically, if you are white and rich, she might be your girl, but everyone else? If you’re in a vulnerable population, she’s not your girl.”

Koenig pointed to Frost’s 2020 vote against declaring racism a public health crisis. “In the year of our Lord 2020,” Koenig said, “she had the nerve to say that America is not a racist country, and that basically we were just making things up.”

When Koenig saw news that Frost would leave her seat, “I texted somebody, ‘Hallelujah.’”

Frost, who declined to comment to The Sacramento Bee about her decision not to run, has been a lightning rod.

In 2022, The Sacramento Bee reported that she attempted to help organize a mass protest against vaccine mandates. In October, she falsely said of COVID, “children do not get or die from the virus.” At the time, the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention said just over 1,500 children had died from COVID. A staffer for Frost told The Bee that she “misspoke.”