Mobil Amends Report on Campaign Committee
Mobil Oil Corp. has filed an amended financial report for the campaign committee that helped defeat a March ballot measure aimed at banning the use of hydrofluoric acid at the company’s Torrance refinery.
The new report, received recently by the Torrance city clerk, corrected a discrepancy in an earlier report that was caused by a mathematical error, said Charles H. Bell Jr., a Sacramento attorney representing Mobil.
The report shows that the Mobil Oil Corp. Refinery Safety Committee/No on Measure A collected a total of $710,238.78, all but $200 of it from Mobil. The committee received $644,895.07 in monetary contributions from Mobil and $65,343.71 in “non-monetary contributions,” which Bell described as staff time of Mobil employees.
The only contributors besides Mobil were David E. Novitski, a Mobil attorney and the committee’s treasurer, who gave $100, and attorney Ernest J. Getto, who also gave $100, the report says.
The ballot measure lost by a margin of 3 to 1 in the March 6 Torrance election.
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