At age 81, powerful LA County Supervisor Sheila Kuehl wants to write poetry and see Scandinavia. She retires Dec. 5.
Iconic Los Angeles politician Sheila Kuehl has been working for 73 years.
Los Angeles County Department heads attend Supervisor Sheila Kuehl’s last Board of Supervisors meeting as she retires on Tuesday, November 22, 2022. Los Angeles County Supervisor Hilda Solis gives Supervisor Sheila Kuehl a memory book during Kuehl’s last Board of Supervisors meeting as she retires on Tuesday, November 22, 2022. She got her start playing the character Zelda Gilroy on the 1959 hit TV show, “The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis.” As an adult, she wrote her own scripts, so to speak, during her eight years in the California state Senate and six years in the state Assembly, where she authored 171 bills that were signed into law.
Supervisor Hahn said Kuehl, who was the first openly gay politician to run and win state office, would wear a bulletproof vest to the California State Capitol. “You led with a boldness and a fearlessness,” Hahn said. Those battles were fought by a short, lesbian woman who’d bring a box to press conferences to stand on but drove a powerful sports car, a car that echoed the spark and get-up-and-go of its owner. But now, as she eases into retirement, she may be letting go of those intense battles and returning to the creative side of herself.
“What is much more serious is his failure to train his department about confrontation, resulting in every other week we are paying out $50 million ,” she said. “Plus his failure to do anything about deputy gangs.”Many credit Kuehl for greening the board. She pushed for the establishment of an “Lindsey is far more progressive than Hertzberg. So I do think it is a continuing trend,” Kuehl said.
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