Male prostitute, 26, dies of meth overdose at Hollywood home of high-profile Democrat donor
Other photographs found on his Facebook page show him with celebrities and high-profile California politicians, including Governor Jerry Brown.
Well, Jerry Brown is currently in the news with this article: California about to pass the ‘Medical Pedophiles Protection Act’ , after the last controversy a few months ago re child prostitution laws in California
But Buck himself I found to be a bit of an enigma because I could find no business information of this 'self-made millionaire'. Then I found this: http://gayrodeohistory.org/1989/ProgramFinals.htm
Born Edward Bernard Buckmelter on August 2 4, 1954 in Steubenville, Ohio.
Moved to Phoenix, AZ in 1963 vvith parents, one brother and tvvo sisters.
Avvarded "Experiment in International Living" scholarship in 1974 and spent a summer in Yugoslavia.
Returned to Phoenix to finish a degree at tvvo year Phoenix College in 1975, vvas graduated vvith distinction.
Lived in Paris and Amsterdam for four years vvhile vvorking as a fashion model and traveled extensively in Europe, vvith an extended trip to Japan.
Returned to Phoenix in 1980 and vvent to vvork as a bicycle courier for a company that he later purchased.
Shortened his name to Edvvard Buck in 1983.
Dabbled in business for 5 years mixing the successes vvith the failures.
Retired in early '86 at age 31.
Got interested in the state of the governors race about one month before the election.
Began the "Mecham Watchdog Committee" from his kitchen table in December '86.
Organized and lead the most successful grass roots campaign in Arizona political history leading to the removal of Gov. Evan Mecham.
Worked to successfully end a discriminatory AIDS policy of the Circle K corporation in 1988.
Worked vvith various neighborhood groups on projects ranging from freevvay alignments, to airport expansions.
Currently leading a city-vvide effort to defeat Proposition 200.
Has done it all as an openly gay man.
First of all, his birth name was Edward Bernard Buckmelter. And in 1974, he was awarded an "Experiment in International Living" scholarship and spent a summer in Yugoslavia. Well, I thought I'd put the name of that award into the search bar along with CIA to see what would come up, just for shits and giggles of course.
"World Learning" for Cuba: a new CIA program? http://www.nnoc.info/world-learning-for-cuba-a-new-cia-program/
I translated some of the text:
Translator's Note : Delphi International Group's transition to World Learning, noted below and occurring in 2001, is detailed in an article Which Explains That World Learning Operates "in more than 130 Countries Throughout Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East [and has] managed more than $ 650 million in programs funded by United States government agencies. "At some point, the Experiment in International Living, founded in 1932 in Brattleboro, VT, became World Learning . As a youth, Peace Corps founder director Sargent Shriver joined the project of the Experiment. Thus began, says the World Learning website, "deep, decades-long partnership between the Peace Corps, The Experiment in International Living, and World Learning." In the new context of relations between the United States and Cuba, no one is surprised That suspicious programs are beginning to appear that are directed towards searching out young Cubans suitable for creating a repository of potential new leaders "for change" - but change is defined according to standards of a war of subversion. These projects end up looking attractive and innocent, but there is an undertone of unhealthy purpose, That of orienting such young people around the values of capitalist and counter-revolutionary political discourse. Thus a notification has just appeared from the non-governmental organization (NGO) World Learning, based in Washington, which has opened up enrollment for its "Summer Program for Young Cubans," which will run for 30 days in July and August 2016, In the United States.
The NGO World Learning is based at 1015 15th St NW, Suite 700, 20005, in Washington, District of Columbia, USA. The main campus of World Learning is located in the north of Brattleboro, as highlighted at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Learning
However, behind the "innocent intentions" there are very serious suspicions about the subversive nature of the same and how it is part of the long-term action of a cover of the CIA. This NGO is connected in its origins with the Peace Corps and is a new version of the Delphi International Group, involved in destabilizing plans by the CIA and its lids like USAID and NED. More than 40 World Learning programs are known to be funded by USAID.
The website www.topsecretwriters.com claims that this NGO, predecessor of the International Delphi group, "is nothing more than a CIA propaganda factory that is used so the federal government can achieve its overall political goals on foreign soil." An example of this political implication, this site stresses, was during the 1980s when the United States government used the Delphi International Group to "promote democracy" in Nicaragua.
On June 11, 2003 Philip Agee, a deceased former CIA agent, stripped how World Learning's mentors - perceived USAID, NED, and the CIA itself - participated in subversive plans against Bolivarian Venezuela in an article in Red Voltaire ( Http://www.voltairenet.org/article125754.html )
Be that as it may, one must keep an eye on this proposal for Cuba, not only because of the history of this NGO and because of its direct links with USAID and NED, masks of the subversive operations of the CIA
Then going back to the Gay Rodeo's breakdown of Bunt's bio, he completed some sort of degree at Phoenix College and then worked 'as a fashion model in Europe and Japan' for 4 years but I can't find any articles or images.
He returned to Phoenix in 1980 to work as a bicycle courier, changed his name in 1983 to Bunt and by 1986 had retired as a 'self made businessman and millionaire'. If anyone could point me to his business at that time I would be grateful.
In 1986 as well is when he came onto the political scene with his Mecham Watchdog Committee
I had a little look at his family..Gerard Buckmelter works for Boeing http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/sdut-bob-filner-recall-kickoff-2013aug18-story.html
Then there's Jeffrey Buckmelter (is that Gerard?) who has been involved with Special Ops missions for the CIA https://www.usafcca.org/hall-of-fame/
Draw your own conclusions.
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ThesaurasaurusKeks ago
I wonder if Arizona Republic columnist E. J. Montini has anything else in common with his good buddy Ed Buck besides knowing gay teenagers dying of AIDS?
https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/136426001/ Democrat and Chronicle Rochester, New York Friday, October 20, 2000 - Page 12
Jon could have been a great candidate E.J. MONTINI
Just before we burst out laughing, I turned to one of the other pallbearers at Jon Fladhammer's funeral and said, "The little so-and-so set us up."
We were sitting in the front row at Jon's memorial service. There were hundreds of people in the room.
Toward the end of the service, the preacher running the show implored all those in attendance to raise their hands if they had prayed for Jon in the past couple of days. In an instant, the room was transformed into a forest of human palms. Each prayerful mourner faced the front of the room, where, in the midst of the worshipful timberland, there was a gap.
Among the pallbearers.
I was sitting there next to Ed Buck, the wildly outspoken activist who was leading the recall effort against then-Gov. Evan Mecham.
I had introduced Jon to Buck, who got to know the teenager during the last months of his life, as I had.
Jon called me out of the blue one morning, a 17-year-old kid who said he had some free time during the day and wanted to know if I could put him in touch with the Mecham Recall Committee. Why would a person who should be in high school have free time during the day? I wanted to know. "Because I'm dying," Jon said.
It was 1987. He'd had cancer for several years by then. He'd lost a leg to it. Now it was in his lungs and he had a few months left.
"One of my philosophies is that, you know, it's happening, so you might as well laugh with it," he told me at the time. And he did.
He had planned to go to law school or to become an actor. He imagined a career in politics.
He loved practical jokes. And in the end, he skunked me and Buck, a couple of less-than-holy loudmouths. He'd made us pallbearers, knowing when the preacher asked those who had prayed to raise their hands, the two of us would stand out like a patch of hedonistic clear-cut in the congregation's worshipful timberland.
He must have been howling in heaven, that kid.
His mother, Dana, wrote to me recently on the 13th anniversary of his passing. I've been thinking about him ever since, particularly during these days when the whole country mourns a group of sailors who died too young.
And because it's election time. Jon Fladhammer would have been 30 by now, perhaps a lawyer, perhaps seeking his first public office.
Imagine, a candidate who makes you want to laugh and still want to vote for him.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._J._Montini
E.J. Montini is a columnist for The Arizona Republic. He began working for The Arizona Republic in December 1979 as a news metro columnist. He has worked for The Arizona Republic for over 25 years covering illegal immigrants, the increase in daily temperatures, and the decrease in rainfall. Montini is also an avid baseball fan, often found walking around the office with a wooden baseball bat.
Montini obtained his B.A. in Journalism from Penn State University [Yikes] in 1976.