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On Jan. 7 Los Angeles County emergency crews responding to a 911
call discovered a second body of a black man within less than 18
months (apparent cause of death in both cases: drug overdose)
inside the West Hollywood apartment of 63-year-old openly gay Ed
Buck, a man who is typically described as a “prominent” and
“wealthy” Democratic donor.
The Ed Buck story has prompted all sorts of questions, not the
least of which–raised by the family of the first overdose
victim, 26-year-old professional escort Gemmel Moore, who died
of too much crystal meth in July 2017–was how Buck had managed
to get off scot-free in famously liberal West Hollywood that
first time around (authorities declined to prosecute him for
anything, despite drugs and drug paraphernalia having been found
in his apartment at the time of Moore’s death). The answer to
that question seemed to be: Buck had money and political
connections. Plus, go away, you right-wing conspiracy-theorist
homophobes, nothing to see here:
[The 2017 overdose incident] has attracted a lot of attention
from the right-wing media here and abroad, including
publications such as the Drudge Report; TruNews, a Christian
news site; Political VelCraft, a right-wing conspiracy site, and
Voat.com, a website that promotes conspiracy theories such as
PizzaGate. Stories on those sites call out Buck’s financial
support for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, his
homosexuality, his alleged attraction to young African-American
men and his alleged drug use.
But my Ed Buck question is a little different: How little money
do you have to hand over to Hillary Clinton to get your picture
taken with her? Not much, it seems. According to donor records,
Buck forked a mere $2,700 to the Dem presidential candidate in
2015. The cute Facebook photo above of bowtie-sporting “twins”
Ed and Hillary apparently ensued.
Indeed, Buck’s total political contributions over the past
decade seem to have failed to top $50,000 to a range of
candidates and PACs. The biggest beneficiary of Buck’s political
largess seems to have been Kyrsten Synema, onto whose victorious
2017 Democratic senatorial campaign in Arizona Buck dropped
$21,000. (Buck seems to love him some Synema, onto whose various
Arizona races before 2017 he spent $9,200). Otherwise, it’s been
dribs and drabs of $1,000 here and $1,000 there–with a $2,700
gift to California Dem Congressman–and major Trump-basher–Adam
Schiff in 2016. Buck has also made a career out of hosting fund-
raisers for Dem candidates at which other people make the big
donations.
That’s the “prominent” part of Buck’s political-donor status.
How about the “wealthy”? The fatal apartment–fatal for the two
dead men found there–where Buck lives is a one-bedroom, one-bath
rental unit at 1234 North Laurel Avenue in West Hollywood where
the going rent for a comparable in this early-1960s complex is
$1,750 a month. The photos accompanying this U.K. Daily Mail
account of the Jan. 7 body discovery, including crumbling
exterior baseboards, tells the story at 1234 North Laurel (Daily
Mail bonus: an undated photo of Buck sharing a grin with
California Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown).
Indeed, Buck’s account of where he made his money seems…vague.
From an August 2017 story in West Hollywood’s online
neighborhood news site WeHoVille titled “Who Is Ed Buck?” (and
featuring a Facebook photo of the blue-eyed onetime model Buck
cuddling his dog apparently inside the apartment posted less
than two weeks after Moore’s death):
Buck [told the Arizona Republic in 1987 that] he worked for the
Arizona franchise of Rapid Information Services, a business
owned by a friend that provided driver’s license information to
insurance companies. Despite his lack of business experience,
and the business’s poor financial situation (his friend ran it
out of a one-bedroom apartment), Buck saw great potential in it.
A year and a half after joining and helping build the business,
Buck bought it out of bankruptcy for $250,000 and renamed it
Gopher Courier. Five years later he sold it for what he said in
another interview was “more than a million dollars profit.”
Very wealthy at the age of 32, Buck took risks, opening a
restaurant and getting into the pay telephone business, on both
of which he lost money. He owned a $280,000 house on top of a
hill near Squaw Peak (now known as Piestewa Peak), a mountain
outside of Phoenix….
Buck “retired” to West Hollywood in 1991.
Buck had become an LGBT hero in Arizona during the late 1980s
for spearheading a successful campaign to impeach and convict
the allegedly homophobic late Arizona Republican governor Evan
Meacham (1924-2008) for misuse of government funds. As a reward
of sorts, Buck got to be grand marshall of the 1989 Gay Rodeo in
Arizona. But also (according to WeHoVille):
[The impeachment campaign] also resulted in publicity about
Buck’s arrest for “public sexual indecency” in an adult
bookstore in 1983. Buck pleaded guilty and paid a fine, and the
charge was dismissed. He claimed a cop had seen him grab the
crotch of a friend. Buck also was called out for trying to get a
drugstore to fill a fake prescription for Percocet, a highly
addictive drug that contains oxycodone. In an interview in 1988
with the Washington Blade, Buck said he had made a copy of an
existing prescription and needed to fill it because of pain from
a root canal. Buck was indicted by a Maricopa (Ariz.) County
grand jury on a charge of “attempting to obtain a narcotic
through fraud or deceit.” A judge agreed to dismiss charges
against Buck if he would be tested weekly for drug use for one
year.
Now you may say–as the family of Gemmel Moore and some black
activists are currently alleging–that Buck is a rich white guy
who is using his political connections to evade suffering any
legal consequences in the deaths of two African-American men.
But I’m saying something different: that Buck is a guy who may
or may not have two nickels to rub together but has apparently
managed to nicely bamboozle a raft of Democratic politicians and
well-meaning West Hollywood bleeding-hearts over the decades
because if you ask too many questions–well, go away, you right-
wing, conspiracy-theorist homophobes, nothing to see here.
Posted by Charlotte Allen
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