It is not a question of 9 signatures vs 70, as you made it out to be. It is the near total absence of all of those signers.
Back in October or November when this all started, AZ said over and over again that we have 70 people who already signed on to the earlier phase. Now when he can’t get 69 of them to sign on the one with dollar signs attached, even after months of challenges, he says that there is no connection between the two. One day when I have more time, I’ll dig up the posts and links. But you can’t have it both ways.
And you can bet a “30-year-old’s-fee” that I will contact people on your list. I have already reached out to one of them. Just haven’t gotten a response yet.
For the record, one of my roshei yeshiva was approached to sign as one of the original 70 and refused. He holds that girls should marry as close as possible to the spiritual high they are on when returning home from seminary in Israel. The longer they are back in America, the more their hashkafos get diluted. Remember they are not in Yeshiva like the bochurim. Most of them are out in the world, and being exposed to religiously compromising influences. So I can assure you, he does not hold of this one either.