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   From: gavin.newsom.democrat.felcher@disney.com   
      
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   In 1990, Washington Post ran an article about the then “35-year-   
   old freelance activist, Ed Buck” who dallied with the idea of a   
   joint recall of congressmen in Arizona, DeConcini and McCain,   
   because of their role in the failure of Keating’s Lincoln   
   Savings and Loan Association.   
      
   DeConcini was in trouble for trying to divert attention away   
   from Keating and silencing media coverage. McCain was dealing   
   with public censure for meetings with federal regulators on the   
   Keating case, though he defended himself say he had done nothing   
   wrong.   
      
   Buck had already produced more than 300,000 signatures on   
   petitions that played a key role in dumping former Republican   
   governor Evan Mecham from office. So for the Post this was a big   
   deal.   
      
   Ed Buck, Ed Buckmelter, election, recall -   
   Buck won considerable esteem from the Arizona citizens for his   
   Mecham recall drive. This oneclaim to fame helped him traverse   
   the rest of his life. It made the New York Times and stuck along   
   with his other activist activities like banning fur coats.   
      
   At one point in that campaign, Mecham attacked him in the media   
   by droning on about how Buck was a “militant homosexual.”   
   Confronted with this charge, Buck replied calmly, “He’s right.   
   So what?” Quickly, people all over Arizona were wearing bright   
   pink buttons that read “Militant Heterosexual.”   
      
   Image result for Chris Christie and Meg Whitman had a run-in   
   with ed buck in September 2010   
   Then Chris Christie and Meg Whitman had a run-in with the man in   
   September 2010 at a Republican political rally. Ed Buck began   
   heckling Whitman because she wasn’t taking questions. Christie   
   intervened. Buck was there Whitman believed just to be an   
   agitator.   
      
   The award-winning documentary – parTy boi: black diamonds in ice   
   castles by Michael Rice– exposed Ed Buck as a “serial predator,”   
   and explores the tragic last days of Gemmel Moore, 26, the first   
   victim that died of an apparent overdose of methamphetamine in   
   Buck’s home in July 2017. One of the men testifies in a voice   
   over that Buck is a “slave master; the marionette [of] the whole   
   black gay community with meth.” It apparently was a pattern of   
   abusive behavior by Ed Buck not just a one-off thing that the   
   documentary alluded to.   
      
   Image result for parTy boi: black diamonds in ice castle what   
   awards did it win   
   –##–   
      
   The guy apparently was a self-made millionaire and big   
   donor/operator in the Democrat party. Apparently those years as   
   a “Parisian Model” were highly lucrative because even in the   
   1980’s he was referred to as a “Millionaire Entrepreneur.”   
      
   Few have asked where that money came from though. He must have   
   had a reason like his modeling career to reinvent his life name   
   because it was originally “Buckmelter” — can’t blame him for   
   that. He was born in Ohio and grew up in Arizona.   
      
   His money climb began as he became a model in Europe, as well as   
   a film extra. He parlayed some of his savings money ($250,000)   
   into buying a courier service after it went bankrupt. He renamed   
   the company Gopher Courier then did a little cosmetic business   
   makeover and flipped it for a sizeable profit of over a million   
   dollars.   
      
   According to one account in a totally off the mainstream media   
   source, in 1983 Buck was arrested on a charge of public sexual   
   indecency resulting from an incident in an adult bookstore; he   
   pleaded guilty and paid a fine, but the charge was ultimately   
   dismissed. He also faced charges of attempting to obtain the   
   painkiller Percocet with a fake prescription. That charge was   
   dismissed on the condition that Buck undergo weekly drug tests   
   for a year.   
      
   Buck arrived in the LGBTQ haven West Hollywood some say in 1991   
   at the height of the time the community was being ostracized in   
   most of the middle class areas and AIDS as well as street drugs   
   were increasingly a problem. Los Angeles at the time was at the   
   apex of both.   
      
   He was a strong activist for all of his life and eagerly took up   
   the baton again in his new home. In 2011 he ran for city   
   council. He unfortunately seemed to have made a few enemies   
   there as well after he kept saying each of them was misusing   
   public funds. The allegations were refuted and Buck apparently   
   settled into a quiet life.   
      
   He was known to donate generously to Democrat and in rare   
      
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