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Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors is the five member governing board of Los Angeles County. Members of the board of supervisors are elected by district, the current members as of Feb 2005 are:
- District 1 Gloria Molina(Currently Chairwoman of the board) Democrat
- District 2 Yvonne Burke Democrat
- District 3 Zev Yaroslavsky Democrat
- District 4 Don Knabe Republican
- District 5 Michael D. Antonovich Republican
Los Angeles County is unusual in that it did not subdivide into separate counties or increase the number of Supervisors as its population soared after 1920. As a result, the concentration of local administrative power in each county Supervisor is unequalled in few other places on Earth; each one represents almost 2 million people.
A local nickname some use for the Board is "the five little kings." Part of the reason why voters in the county don't approve measures that have been put before them to increase the number of Supervisors is fear of a political power shift that might prove unfavorable to them - necessitating the status quo.
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