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BIG OIL TARGETS RIVAS PETROLEUM FIRMS FUND ATTACK MAILERS AGAINST HOLLISTER SUPE’S ASSEMBLY BID By Tom Gogola Pacific Sun
The state’s petroleum industry is spending $320,000 in the
District 30 State Assembly race to defeat fundraising frontrunner Robert Rivas. The San Benito County supervisor hopes to succeed Anna Caballero, who is running for state senate this year and represents a district that stretches from Morgan Hill to King City and includes Watsonville and all of San Benito County. The San Rafael law firm Nielsen Merksamer Parrinello
Gross & Leoni, which counts BP, Chevron, Exxon Mobil, Phillips and Valero Energy Corporation among its clients, created the Coalition to Restore California’s Middle Class, Opposing Robert Rivas for Assembly 2018. It’s the first time the industry has targeted a local official seeking higher office. Rivas was at the forefront of San Benito’s Measure J, which banned fracking in 2014
despite a $2 million push funded by large petroleum companies to defeat it. San Benito was California’s first county to enact a ban on fracking and associated oil extraction technologies, including acid well stimulation treatments and cyclic steam injection; a similar effort failed in Santa ➝Big Oil, 8
By Barry Holtzclaw Managing Editor
For Rep. Jimmy Panetta, whose 20th District includes some of the nation’s biggest farm producers, voting against the most recent Farm Bill was difficult but necessary. “The failure of the Farm Bill on the House floor last week was due to a flawed process and unnecessary partisanship,” said the 20th District Democrat. He placed the blame squarely on the Republican leadership of the House Agriculture Committee, of which he is a member. In addition to facing unified Democratic opposition, the Republican majority was unable to shore up support from its conservative members, and the bill presented by the Agriculture Committee failed May 18 on 198213 vote. The Farm Bill—officially called the Agriculture and Nutrition Act— comes up for a vote only once every four years, and ➝ Farm Bill, 10 Robert Eliason
CORONATION PREPARATION Aliana Maciel, side maid to the “Little Queen,” has her hair done, complete with festive crown, for Hollister’s Portuguese Festa do Espirito Santa.
Community takes pride PORTUGUESE OBSERVE HOLY SPIRIT FESTIVAL IN HOLLISTER Debra Eskinazi
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Hollister’s PortugueseAmerican community came out to celebrate the Festival of the Holy Spirit—Festa do Espirito Santa with a coronation of queens May 19, followed the next day by
FESTA HONORS Eric and Mona Souza carry the ‘holy spirit’ crown along the parade route in Hollister’s annual Festival of the Holy Spirit—a celebration of the local Portuguese-American community.
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a parade, mass and feast of traditional sopas at the SDES Portuguese Hall of Hollister. The annual event— celebrated globally by Roman Catholics of Portuguese descent for more than 700 years—honors the generous spirit of the Portuguese Queen Isabel, originally a Princess of Aragon, who is remembered for her efforts to alleviate the hunger and suffering of the poor.
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