The State - News from May 20, 1986

Secretary of State March Fong Eu warned circulators of a proposed ballot initiative that would bar people carrying the AIDS virus from classrooms and commercial food handling that she would take legal action unless they quit “harassing” potential petition signers and “misrepresenting” contents of the petition. In a telegram, Eu told chief proponent Khushro Ghandi of Los Angeles, West Coast coordinator of the National Democratic Policy Committee of Lyndon LaRouche, that citizens “have been subjected to outrageous verbal abuse for mere failure to sign petitions, generating complaints by individuals and public and private property managers.” Ghandi said he suspected opponents of filing false complaints with Eu in an effort to derail the proposal. The measure would ask California voters to declare acquired immune deficiency syndrome a communicable disease, and people found to carry the virus could be charged with a misdemeanor if they tried to spread the disease.