After nearly 35 years serving the Hollister community, Pat Loe
continues to want to make a mark on the county. Growing up in
Paicines, Robert Rivas always has been around some sort of activism
or politics. The two will face each other in the race for District
3 supervisor in the June primary.
Editor’s note: Profiles on each of the District 3 candidates will appear in the Weekend Pinnacle on Friday. In the coming weeks, you can also find profiles on candidates for the other two contested offices.
After nearly 35 years serving the Hollister community, Pat Loe continues to want to make a mark on the county. Growing up in Paicines, Robert Rivas always has been around some sort of activism or politics.
The two will face each other in the race for District 3 supervisor in the June primary.
Loe’s elected experience includes time on Hollister’s City Council in the mid-1970s. She has been the first woman mayor of Hollister and is currently serving her eighth year as a San Benito County supervisor, after being elected to the position in 2002.
Rivas, who was raised by his grandfather and his single mom, remembers his granddad waking up early to head out to rallies asking for better pay at his job as a mechanic at a vineyard.
“He worked for better working conditions – he was overworked, underpaid,” Rivas said. “I saw what he went through in the struggle he had to endure to get a better raise and to get the best working conditions.”
Thanks to her experience, meanwhile, Loe thinks she knows where the county needs to go in the future.
“Anytime you have institutional memory on the issues, it’s a great help,” Loe said. “It gives you a pulse on what’s happening in the community and what’s important in the community.”
Loe is the incumbent in District 3 and is facing Rivas in the June 8 primary. District 3 includes southwest Hollister, south of South Street and east to Memorial Drive.
Look for the full profiles in Friday’s Pinnacle.
