Peter reiterated the basic talking points of the initiative (see above). Then he predicted that the fall campaign would be vigorously contested, mostly by developers that don't live in Santa Clara County. After that he answered some questions from the media. They wanted to know about polling, and he said that the testing he had seen projected the initiative had a good chance of winning. The only question I didn't hear him answer was "what are the names of your financial supporters?" He explained that he wanted to protect their privacy, but that their names would all be in the FPPC documentation as required by law.

The farmer explained that he had looked over the initiative, and it seemed like it wouldn't make farming in Santa Clara County any harder. He to is hoping it passes in November.

This guy works for Cindy Chavez, the San Jose City Council Member who is one of the front runners in the race for Mayor. He made the initiative sound like the greatest thing since they invented sliced bread.

Dave, another candidate for Mayor of San Jose. He also spoke highly of the good things the initiative would do.

Then Mary lead the procession of supporters carrying boxes of signatures into the Registrar's office.

The parade moved too fast for me to get everybody. There was a supporter for every one of the 19 boxes, and there were even supporters left over that didn't get a chance to carry anything in. I was one of those.

I think Janice was telling Peter it would take a while to verify 60,000 signatures, but the Registrar's office would do it as quickly as they could. Peter was saying he needs the initiative to be on the Fall ballot, and he thinks they submitted way more than enough signatures.