The L.A. County supervisors: The Five Little Queens

Clockwise from left, Los Angeles County supervisors Hilda L. Solis, Kathryn Barger, Holly J. Mitchell, Lindsey P. Horvath and Janice Hahn, photographed at the Kenneth Hahn Hall of Administration in downtown Los Angeles on Oct. 10. ‘If you have a good idea, you only need two other people who agree with you and it becomes law.’ — L.A. County Supervisor Janice Hahn 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. “If you have a good idea, you only need two other people who agree with you and it becomes law,” said Hahn, who in 2016 resigned as a congresswoman for California’s 44th Congressional District to run for county supervisor. It is, as former Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky puts it, a “poor people’s government” — meant to catch people with no health insurance or no home, no parents or no money.