Recount Startles Backers of Anti-Airport Petition
From Times Staff Reports
Backers of a bid to build a park instead of an airport at the El Toro Marine base said a judge’s order invalidating petitions collected so far would affect 128,000 signatures, far more than the 50,000 first believed.
Len Kranser of Citizens for Safe and Healthy Communities said organizers did a more thorough count after Judge James Gray’s ruling Tuesday. That count found that organizers were much further along in the process than was thought.
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