{"id":3349,"date":"2021-07-08T17:49:36","date_gmt":"2021-07-08T21:49:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/garciaforholyoke.com\/?p=3349"},"modified":"2021-07-08T17:52:44","modified_gmt":"2021-07-08T21:52:44","slug":"holyoke-candidates-decry-racist-messages-on-campaign-signs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/garciaforholyoke.com\/es\/holyoke-candidates-decry-racist-messages-on-campaign-signs\/","title":{"rendered":"Holyoke candidates decry racist messages on campaign signs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HOLYOKE \u2014 Two Latino candidates for elected office are speaking out after racist messages were found written on the back of their campaign signs at a busy city intersection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Israel Rivera, who is running for an at-large City Council seat, and Joshua Garcia, a mayoral candidate, came forward earlier this week to decry the vandalized signs, which were discovered a week before. In interviews, both candidates said they debated whether to draw attention to the incident. Ultimately, they said they decided to publicly condemn the racism directed at them and their communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhether you live in west Holyoke or south Holyoke, the person who wrote that is talking about our neighbors and our city,\u201d Garcia said. \u201cAnd what we really need to do is connect as neighbors and as a community and stand by our neighbors and tell the world we\u2019re not going to stand for that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rivera said initially he didn\u2019t want to give the racist messages any extra attention, but he also didn\u2019t want to sweep the incident under the rug.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-white-color has-text-color\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gazettenet.com\/Holyoke-candidates-Joshua-Garcia-Israel-Rivera-decry-racist-sign-vandalism-41344037\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lee Mas<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HOLYOKE \u2014 Two Latino candidates for elected office are speaking out after racist messages were found written on the back of their campaign signs at a busy city intersection. Israel Rivera, who is running for an at-large City Council seat, and Joshua Garcia, a mayoral candidate, came forward earlier this week to decry the vandalized [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3350,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Holyoke candidates decry racist messages on campaign signs - Joshua A. 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