So, the claim is that these initiatives are so popular that the backers can't find enough actual citizen volunteers to gather signatures, but have to pay someone to do it for them? 

And that paid company can't even find enough local citizens "supportive" enough to do it for pay that they have to import itinerant professional barkers?

Remind me again which actual -citizens- actually support these "popular enough to justify going outside the normal political process" initiatives again?

Cause I'm not seeing a lot of "popular" nor "citizen" in these initiatives.