With a per signature price increase to $2.25 and other measures already qualifying, the redistricting initiative, backed by Gov. Schwarzenegger, had a very good week on the streets of California. So good that signature gatherers were told over the weekend to do a "final turn in" of their signatures by tonight. This also suggests there was a ton of hoarding going on two weeks ago--that is, gatherers were holding back signatures in hopes that the price would go up. Rick Claussen, consultant to the effort, says this morning that the sponsors expect to have more than 1.1 million signatures by the end of this week--more than a week earlier than the previous plan. In fact, with redistricting off the street, there is little paying work left in California at the moment. Many of the top gatherers and coordinators are leaving to work on initiatives in other states.