Vendors of the homeless newspaper Real Change have been gathering signatures for the anti-tunnel referendum, which is being sponsored, in part, by the organization.

Although the merged campaign, called Protect Seattle Now, has said it plans to pay paid signature gatherers $2 a signature to get the measure on the ballot (they have just 30 days to collect 16,000 valid signatures), Real Change director Tim Harris says the Real Change vendors aren't being paid to gather signatures. "We're not incentivizing it, if that's what you're asking," Harris says. "Some of our vendors are just into" the anti-tunnel cause.

"Our position is, if you want to [gather signatures for the campaign], that'd be great, but we're not recruiting them to gather signatures," Harris says.