I am a landlord and attended this meeting in order to take the temperature of what will likely happen in the immediate term and next two years.

The council vote went down exactly as predicted. I have no problem with it, as that is pragmatic, no need to go against the spirit of what was voted for at this point, it is a marathon not a sprint to get this well intentioned but poorly written and to be poorly executed measure repealed in two years. It was apparent that was the approach of the council, to take the high road as they know they will need goodwill to implement this in a way that puts the city and its taxpayers in the best position in a bad situation.

What was striking was the unprofessional out of turn outburst and use of offensive and profane language by the Tenant Coalition's official mouthpiece Mr. Debolt. For those not present, Councilman Kasperzak (who actually voted for the ordinance) was giving his rationale for not voting for it, out of turn and disrespectfully from the back row, Mr. Debolt shouted "that's bull Spit" (edited for language) then followed up with "that's f'n bullspit" (again edited for language). It is curious that the Voice omitted the most interesting part of the meeting, about as "fair and balanced" as Fox News.

In a supposed civilized society where we should hear each other out and respect each other's positions, there is no place for this. Other leaders of the coalition approved and high fived him.

I was pleased by the contrasting professionalism of Joshua Howard who spoke with brevity, precision and respect. Interestingly, Mr. Howard tried to speak at the end to get the last word by queueing up late behind Mr. Debolt, a legitimate strategy, seeing this, Mr. Debolt left the queue to get behind Mr. Howard, it appeared childish but not surprising given the later offensive outburst.

The bulk of the pro measure V was anecdotal, I would really like to see some hard facts on average tenures and rents etc, the abhorrent behavior of some landlords is not the norm based on the limited non anecdotal evidence provided.

In short, I feel good that the landlord's professional approach will win out eventually, I for one will stick this out rather than selling and continue to operate my rentals in an ethical manner, as most landlords in Mountain View have done and will continue to do.

I'm so glad that the Council has done the right thing and supported the thousands and thousands of tenants in our fair city. The landlords and right wingers will continue to bad mouth anyone supportive of rent control, but let's just ignore them and live our lives. They lost. Game over.

Every dollar spent on defending the lawful and constitutionally sound Measure V will be taken from the fees collected from the landlords. The more they fight, the higher the fees will be. Hopefully, their attorneys are ethical enough to advise them it's a waste of money. We'll see...