Based on my limited research, the originator of Prop 19 is a fellow named Richard Lee. He has been featured in a couple of media documentaries -- CNBC and the History Channel.
My initial impression of the man:
He's smarter than I am. He has bigger balls than I have.
Chuckle...
San Francisco.
Rich, elitist.
Oakland.
Working class schmucks who drive across the bridge everyday because it's too damned expensive to live there to pick up the garbage, deliver the mail, man the firestations, make the sushi, do the night nurse shifts at the hospitals, yadda, yadda, yadda...