sentences:  Sometimes the group paid people as much as to sign a petition to put the initiatives on the ballot, according to one report from the "San Francisco Chronicle" which ran editorials opposing the referendum.According to a second source, prices paid for signatures to petition the ballot initiatives ranged from $1 in California to $3 in Arizona.The "San Francisco Chronicle", however, felt California's Proposition 90 initiative went too far and would restrict the power of the state government to create "rights-of-way for utilities" and it worried that states would be unable to enforce environmental laws since it would be required to compensate property owners for "any substantial economic loss."