Full Speech Given by Lindsey Horvath at Yesterday’s Rally to Save the Coast

Note: The Supervisor’s Office mailed us a copy of Horvath’s notes yesterday that can be found below the video.

• Good afternoon, everyone.  

• Thank you all for showing up today to stand up to the Trump Administration and protect our priceless California coast. 
   
• I’m Supervisor Lindsey Horvath, and I am proud to represent Los Angeles County’s Third District. 
   
• My district includes America’s most iconic coastal communities: Santa Monica, Malibu, the Pacific Palisades, and Venice. 
   
• And on behalf of LA County’s ten million residents…and the 75 million annual visitors to our beaches every year– 

• We are telling the Trump Administration to back off our beach. 
   
• Reckless proposals to sell out our coastline threaten what we all know is so important:
  • Our thriving coastal economy  
  • Our unparalleled biodiversity 
  • And the natural beauty that we treasure 
     
• Los Angeles County rejects any and all efforts to allow oil and gas drilling or deep seabed mining off the California coast. 

• Last year, our state averaged 70 oil spills every single month. 
   
• Disasters like the Santa Barbara Refugio spill have wreaked havoc and harmed our economy.  
   
• We are writing a different future for our region. 

• Los Angeles County, which is the nation’s largest urban oil field, is banning new oil drilling. 
   
• And we are protecting our neighborhoods by phasing out existing wells. 

• LA County will soon achieve 100% renewable and reliable electricity. 
   
• Meanwhile, the Trump Administration is recklessly starting foreign wars and skyrocketing the price at the pump. 
   
• Rather than helping you, they are wasting billions of taxpayer dollars to bribe energy companies to cancel offshore wind projects. 

• Those are projects that represent real energy independence, fight the climate crisis, and create good paying jobs. 
   
• If they wanted to really help our communities, they would release billions of disaster aid to help our coastal communities desperate to rebuild their lives after the Palisades Fire. 
   
• We know what is best for Los Angeles County, for California, and for our nation. 
   
• And I will never stop fighting to protect it. 

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