This will be it. I watched it happen over and over and over again. I was actually "selected" for one such role and may have been able to succeed a female County Supervisor in my county (not Los Angeles at that time, the Inland Empire) but I chose not to run for office at all and instead returned to school to get my MFA. I could have been one of those ossified people who don't care about their constituents by now if I'd have done it.