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." A reporter for "USA Today" suggested the referendums might "gut local and state abilities to enact or enforce virtually any regulations affecting private land use and development." Critics of the property rights proposals suggest the downside is "voting to destroy all land-use regulation."