Paul Gann

I am sorry Paul Gann has AIDS. I am sorry anyone has AIDS. It seems awfully ironic, though, that he wants to "test everyone and tell everything." Even if this were a good idea--which it isn't--just where the hell does he expect the money to come from? JOHN DIBELKA San Francisco

In the weeks before his death, anti-tax crusader Paul Gann indicated that he had an open mind about a ballot proposal that would make substantial changes in the state spending limit that bears his name, Gov. George Deukmejian said Thursday.

I am here to start what may become the last campaign of my life . --Tax crusader Paul Gann, at a June 9 press conference, announcing he has AIDS. For miles he had slumped in the front passenger seat of his white Cadillac, uncommonly quiet. It was nearly midnight, and Paul Gann was being driven home from yet another television appearance.

It seems that Bernheimer, the Pulitzer Prize-winning critic, missed the point in his recent vilification of ill-fated radio station KFAC. Given the current situation, his expressed concern over unctuous, pompous announcers' butchery of French and Italian pronunciation is laughable. Give him POWER ONE-OH-SIX. He'll love that station. They have good announcers. THOMAS L. VAUGHN San Pedro

Paul Gann, the tax crusader who achieved nationwide attention as co-author of Proposition 13 in 1978 died Monday, almost two years after embarking on his final campaign. That one was against the AIDS virus, to which he was exposed during a blood transfusion after open heart surgery in 1982. He died at the Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Sacramento, where he had been under treatment for a broken hip suffered in a Sept. 2 fall at his Carmichael home. He was 77.

For the third time in two years, the foot soldiers and generals in the war against AIDS are fighting a California ballot initiative that would force doctors and health officials to drastically alter their tactics--in part by investigating the sex lives of possibly a million or more people. This time the appeal to voters is not being offered by extremist Lyndon LaRouche, whose two initiatives flopped at the polls. The latest measure, Proposition 102, has more formidable roots in Rep.

As I was reading about all the dire consequences concerning Paul Gann's salary-limiting initiative, I thought "shades of Proposition 13!" We, the general public, had all the same scare tactics used on us in 1978 only to discover that the sky did not fall! JEAN M. BALDWIN El Segundo

In addition to AIDS, Paul Gann suffers from a case of acute homophobia. The recent article on the tax reformer (Part I, Aug. 17) supplied ample proof that gay-bashing is a major factor in the anti-AIDS "crusade" led by certain right-wingers, including the gang of four: Rep. William Dannemeyer (R-Fullerton) and Rep. Robert Dornan (R-Garden Grove), state Sen. John Doolittle (R-Citrus Heights), and Gann. DICK MEISEL Santa Monica

Paul Gann, the tax crusader who achieved nationwide attention as co-author of Proposition 13 in 1978 died Monday, almost two years after embarking on his final campaign. That one was against the AIDS virus, to which he was exposed during a blood transfusion after open heart surgery in 1982. He died at the Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Sacramento, where he had been under treatment for a broken hip suffered in a Sept. 2 fall at his Carmichael home. He was 77.

Anti-tax activist Paul Gann announced in Santa Ana on Thursday that he is launching a statewide ballot initiative designed to take the task of political redistricting away from the state Legislature and give it to a 12-member, bipartisan commission. Gann, working with the League of Women Voters on the proposal, said that such a measure is needed to wrest control of the redistricting process from political incumbents and "to see to it that (California) never becomes a dictatorship."

Anti-tax crusader Paul Gann Wednesday said he will fight the plan unveiled by Gov. George Deukmejian to place before the voters a proposal to raise the gasoline tax and repeal the government spending limit that Gann conceived in 1979. Even though he is a strong supporter of Deukmejian and a fellow Republican, Gann said he will fight the proposal to put on the November ballot a measure to raise the gasoline tax by 9 cents a gallon and revise the expenditure limit to allow the increased revenue to be spent.

After reading the governor's comments on the state budget and the editorial reply by The Times, I feel a strong need to put in my dollar's worth (used to be 2 cents) about the Deukmejian Administration (letter, March 15, editorials, March 15-17). The governor has stated the increases in revenue and expenditures in precise figures but fails to mention exact figures for the rate of inflation and population growth. Why not all the information? The governor has not mentioned the effect on local governments when he sent the mental patients back home and failed to follow them with local financing.

Tax-cut advocate Paul Gann has entered the legal battle over Proposition 103 by filing a brief with the state Supreme Court siding with the insurance industry on their contention that the initiative contains an unconstitutional prescription for levying premium taxes on the industry.

Opponents filed a complaint Monday charging the sponsors of Proposition 102, a Nov. 8 initiative that would force health officials to alter their AIDS strategy, with hiding the sources of money for their campaign. The complaint, filed with the state Fair Political Practices Commission, said that Rep. William Dannemeyer (R-Fullerton) and committees headed by activist Paul Gann were violating the law by not fully disclosing where $639,870 in contributions came from.

For the third time in two years, the foot soldiers and generals in the war against AIDS are fighting a California ballot initiative that would force doctors and health officials to drastically alter their tactics--in part by investigating the sex lives of possibly a million or more people. This time the appeal to voters is not being offered by extremist Lyndon LaRouche, whose two initiatives flopped at the polls. The latest measure, Proposition 102, has more formidable roots in Rep.

Your article on Paul Gann and his battle against AIDS (Part I, May 11) gave a misleading impression of the AIDS ballot initiative that he and Rep. William E. Dannemeyer (R-Fullerton) are circulating. Not mentioned in your piece were several of the initiative's most dangerous provisions. Among other things, it would: 1) Severely weaken current confidentiality requirements for HIV-antibody testing and eliminate the requirement for written consent before a person could be tested. 2)