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   $26,000 is a lot of money for a political candidate.  They would   
   know immediately if they’d returned that amount of money from a   
   donor. So California State Senate President Pro Tem Kevin de   
   León’s response to being asked publicly if he’d returned the   
   over $26,000 he’d received from scandal engulfed prominent   
   Democratic donor Ed Buck–was less than honest.\   
      
   The question came up at a recent candidate’s forum held by the   
   Feel the Bern Democratic Club of Los Angeles and seemed to   
   completely catch De León off guard.  His initial reaction was to   
   deflect and point out all of the other politicians who received   
   money from Buck instead of taking responsibility for his own   
   inactions.   
      
   Gemmel Moore died of a crystal meth overdose in Ed Buck’s home   
   last July. His death was immediately classified as an accidental   
   methamphetamine overdose by the coroner, but after his personal   
   journal was published and other young men stepped forward   
   recounting similar stories about a man who they say has a   
   Tuskegee Experiment like fetish which includes shooting drugs   
   into young Black men that he picks up off the street or via   
   dating hookup websites, the L.A. County Sheriff’s Department’s   
   opened a homicide investigation.   
      
   In his journal, Moore wrote, “I honestly don’t know what to do.   
   I’ve become addicted to drugs and the worst one at that,’ a   
   December entry reads. ‘Ed Buck is the one to thank. He gave me   
   my first injection of crystal meth it was very painful, but   
   after all the troubles, I became addicted to the pain and   
   fetish/fantasy.”   
      
   “My life is at an alltime [sic] high right now & I mean that   
   from all ways. I ended up back at Buck [sic] house again and got   
   munipulated [sic] into slamming again. I even went to the point   
   where I was forced to doing 4 within a 2day [sic] period. This   
   man is crazy and its [sic] sad. Will I ever get help?”   
      
   His last entry, dated Dec. 3, 2016, reads: “If it didn’t hurt so   
   bad, I’d kill myself, but I’ll let Ed Buck do it for now.”   
      
   A coroner’s report confirmed that the popular Democratic donor’s   
   home was littered with drug paraphernalia including 24 syringes   
   with brown residue, five glass pipes with white residue and burn   
   marks, a plastic straw with possible white residue, clear   
   plastic bags with white powdery residue and a clear plastic bag   
   with a “piece of crystal-like substance.”  The police report   
   also indicated that someone at the scene “is suspected to be   
   known to exchange drugs for sex.”   
      
   And even though Democrats–from California to Washington   
   D.C.–have wasted no time in calling for Republicans to return   
   the cash of Las Vegas casino giant and Republican National   
   Committee finance chairman Steve Wynn after sexual misconduct   
   allegations surfaced from women who worked at Wynn’s   
   casinos–they’ve been less than willing to return the dirty money   
   of their own donors.   
      
   To be fair, De León is one name on a long list of those who   
   received donations from Buck.  A list that includes California   
   gubernatorial candidate Gavin Newsom, Congressmembers Ted Lieu   
   and Adam Schiff and Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti.   
      
   In California, De León has been positioning himself as the   
   progressive Democrat’s choice to unseat incumbent United States   
   Senator Dianne Feinstein in the upcoming election.   
      
   By way of disclosure, I spoke with De León in person at the   
   winter meeting of the California Democratic Party in Millbrae.   
   He assured me then that the money was going to be returned or   
   had already been returned–a mixed message that I immediately   
   passed onto Moore’s mother Latisha Nixon. I told  De León to   
   have his people give me a call if they had any problems getting   
   the money to the fund set up to support Buck’s victims.  That   
   was November.   
      
   Furthermore, I met with you last November at the meeting of the   
   African American Caucus and you said then it was or would be   
   taken care and it has not been. #GemmelMoore #receipts   
   pic.twitter.com/z1O8PFXPDb   
      
   — Jasmyne Cannick (@Jasmyne) February 1, 2018   
      
   So I was more than a little perplexed at his response during the   
   candidate’s forum about returning Buck’s money.  De León (and   
   his people) knew that the ask was not for the money to be given   
      
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