Los Angeles County Supervisor Lindsey Horvath will endorse Nithya Raman\u2019s bid for mayor on Tuesday, giving the City Council member a boost in the battle for votes on the Westside and in the San Fernando Valley.<\/p>\n
The endorsement also gives Raman newfound clout in an area where her campaign has struggled: securing support from her fellow elected officials. Thirteen of her council colleagues have endorsed her opponent, Mayor Karen Bass, while a fourteenth \u2014 Councilmember Traci Park \u2014 said she is voting for the incumbent despite reservations.<\/p>\n
Horvath, whose district takes in 2 million people, said Raman will shake up the status quo, bringing a new approach to homelessness, housing affordability, emergency preparedness and other issues.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s been said that she doesn\u2019t have many friends<\/a> at City Hall, and I know what that feels like,\u201d Horvath told The Times. \u201cWhen you take on institutional inertia and decades of refusal to change, that kind of shake-up can feel disruptive to people. But I think that\u2019s the kind of leadership people are clamoring for in Los Angeles right now.\u201d<\/p>\n The endorsement could give Raman a new rejoinder to Bass\u2019 assertions that she struggles to work well with other political leaders. It also could give Raman new inroads in parts of Horvath\u2019s district that were strongholds for onetime mayoral candidate<\/a> Spencer Pratt, who placed third in the June 2 primary.<\/p>\n Horvath, who represents large portions of the Westside and Valley, plans to discuss her endorsement during an appearance with Raman on Tuesday. Even with that announcement, Bass will have the lion\u2019s share of political endorsements, including those of the four other county supervisors and county Sheriff Robert Luna.<\/p>\n Horvath was once on friendly terms with Bass, supporting her initial responses to the homelessness crisis and even introducing her at the mayor\u2019s State of the City address in 2024. The two eventually became antagonists, a split that broke into public view<\/a> in the aftermath of the January 2025 Palisades fire, which destroyed thousands of homes and left 12 people dead.<\/p>\n Horvath, who represents the entire Palisades burn area, sent Bass multiple text messages in the weeks that followed the fire expressing frustration over her handling of communications and other issues.<\/p>\n Later on, Horvath took aim at Bass\u2019 work on homelessness, calling the city\u2019s record \u201cindefensible.\u201d<\/p>\n Bass, in turn, has criticized county officials for pulling more than $300 million out of the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority \u2014 a move largely spearheaded by Horvath. That money was shifted into a new county agency focused on homelessness.<\/p>\n