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In Which The New York Times Straight Up Lies About Ed Buck

Saturday, September 21st, 2019

As an extension of the Democratic Media Complex, it’s never a surprise when theNew York Times lies to help the Democratic Party out. This time it’s calling wealthy gay Democratic Party donor and accused serial killer Ed Buck “a small-time Democratic donor.”

Does this look like a “small time” donor to you?

Money to PACs BUCK, ED
WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA 90046 RETIRED 06-10-2008 $500.00 United for A Strong America (D)
Money to Candidates BUCK, ED
WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA 90046 RETIRED 09-02-2010 $1,000.00 Portantino, Anthony (D)
Money to Parties BUCK, ED
WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA 90046 RETIRED 12-09-2009 $500.00 Democratic Congressional Campaign Cmte (D)
Money to Parties BUCK, ED
LOS ANGELES, CA 90046 RETIRED 08-23-2012 $2,000.00 Los Angeles County Dem Central Cmte (D)
Money to Candidates BUCK, ED
LOS ANGELES, CA 90046 RETIRED 03-15-2012 $1,000.00 Israel, Steve (D)
Money to Candidates BUCK, ED
WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA 90046 RETIRED 10-03-2012 $1,000.00 McNerney, Jerry (D)
Money to Candidates BUCK, ED
WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA 90046 RETIRED 01-27-2015 $5,200.00 Sinema, Kyrsten (D)
Money to Candidates BUCK, ED
WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA 90046 NOT EMPLOYED 10-10-2016 $1,000.00 Bonoff, Terri (D)
Money to Candidates BUCK, ED
WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA 90046 RETIRED 10-10-2016 $1,000.00 Bera, Ami (D)
Money to Candidates BUCK, ED
WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA 90046 RETIRED 04-24-2015 $2,700.00 Clinton, Hillary (D)
Money to Candidates BUCK, ED
WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA 90046 RETIRED 06-25-2013 $2,600.00 Sinema, Kyrsten (D)
Money to Candidates BUCK, ED
WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA 90046 RETIRED 06-25-2013 $2,700.00 Sinema, Kyrsten (D)
Money to Candidates BUCK, ED
LOS ANGELES, CA 90046 RETIRED 02-11-2014 $2,600.00 Lieu, Ted (D)
Money to Candidates BUCK, ED
LOS ANGELES, CA 90046 RETIRED 02-11-2014 $2,600.00 Lieu, Ted (D)
Money to Parties BUCK, ED
W HOLLYWOOD, CA 90056 RETIRED 10-28-2014 $2,500.00 Democratic State Central Cmte/California (D)
Money to Candidates BUCK, ED
WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA 90046 NOT EMPLOYED 05-25-2008 $1,000.00 Obama, Barack (D)
Money to Candidates BUCK, ED
WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA 90046 NOT EMPLOYED 04-24-2008 $250.00 Obama, Barack (D)
Money to Candidates BUCK, ED
WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA 90046 NOT EMPLOYED 08-29-2008 $300.00 Obama, Barack (D)
Money to Candidates BUCK, ED
WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA 90046 RETIRED 06-11-2012 $500.00 McNerney, Jerry (D)
Money to Candidates BUCK, ED
WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA 90046 RETIRED 02-02-2011 $500.00 McNerney, Jerry (D)
Money to PACs BUCK, ED
LOS ANGELES, CA 90046 RETIRED 03-31-2010 $600.00 Stonewall Democratic Club (D)
Money to Candidates BUCK, ED
WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA 90046 RETIRED 05-27-2011 $500.00 Portantino, Anthony (D)
Money to Candidates BUCK, ED
WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA 90046 RETIRED 08-02-2012 $500.00 Sinema, Kyrsten (D)
Money to Candidates BUCK, ED
WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA 90046 RETIRED 08-02-2012 $500.00 Sinema, Kyrsten (D)
Money to Candidates BUCK, ED
WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA 90046 RETIRED 02-28-2017 $5,400.00 Sinema, Kyrsten (D)
Money to Candidates BUCK, ED
WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA 90046 RETIRED 05-06-2016 $250.00 Clinton, Hillary (D)
Money to Candidates BUCK, ED
WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA 90046 UNEMPLOYED 07-19-2017 $1,000.00 Gomez, Jimmy (D)
Money to Candidates BUCK, ED
WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA 90046 RETIRED 10-10-2016 $1,000.00 Caforio, Bryan (D)
Money to Candidates BUCK, ED
LOS ANGELES, CA 90046 RETIRED 03-20-2017 $2,700.00 Lieu, Ted (D)
Money to Candidates BUCK, ED
WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA 90046 RETIRED 01-27-2015 -$2,500.00 Sinema, Kyrsten (D)
Money to Candidates BUCK, ED
WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA 90046 RETIRED 01-27-2015 $2,500.00 Sinema, Kyrsten (D)
Money to SuperPAC/Outside Group BUCK, ED
WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA 90046 RETIRED 10-06-2014 $5,000.00 House Majority PAC
Money to Candidates BUCK, ED
WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA 90046 RETIRED 11-08-2012 $1,000.00 Sinema, Kyrsten (D)
Money to PACs BUCK, ED
LOS ANGELES, CA 90046 RETIRED 08-23-2010 $500.00 Stonewall Young Democrats
Money to Candidates BUCK, ED
WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA 90046 RETIRED 03-30-2011 $1,000.00 Frank, Barney (D)
Money to Candidates BUCK, ED
LOS ANGELES, CA 90046 RETIRED 03-29-2008 $2,200.00 Warner, Russell (D)
Money to Candidates BUCK, ED
WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA 90046 NOT EMPLOYED 05-31-2017 $1,000.00 Donnelly, Joe (D)
Money to Candidates BUCK, ED
WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA 90046 UNEMPLOYED 02-27-2017 $1,000.00 Gomez, Jimmy (D)
Money to Candidates BUCK, ED
LOS ANGELES, CA 90046 RETIRED 03-20-2017 $2,700.00 Lieu, Ted (D)
Money to Candidates BUCK, ED
WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA 90046 RETIRED 02-28-2017 $2,700.00 Sinema, Kyrsten (D)
Money to Candidates BUCK, ED
WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA 90046 NOT EMPLOYED 10-10-2016 $1,000.00 Gallego, Pete (D)
Money to Candidates BUCK, ED
WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA 90046 RETIRED 06-25-2013 -$2,600.00 Sinema, Kyrsten (D)
Money to Candidates BUCK, ED
LOS ANGELES, CA 90046 NONE 05-04-2016 $1,000.00 Vince, Lou (D)
Money to Candidates BUCK, ED
LOS ANGELES, CA 90046 RETIRED 08-19-2015 $2,700.00 Lieu, Ted (D)
Money to Candidates BUCK, ED
LOS ANGELES, CA 90046 RETIRED 03-29-2007 $500.00 Warner, Russell (D)
Money to Candidates BUCK, ED
LOS ANGELES, CA 90046 RETIRED 06-20-2007 $1,800.00 Warner, Russell (D)
Money to Parties BUCK, ED
LOS ANGELES, CA 90046 RETIRED 11-08-2009 $350.00 Democratic Party of San Fernando Valley (D)
Money to Candidates BUCK, ED
WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA 90046 RETIRED 09-02-2010 $1,000.00 McNerney, Jerry (D)
Money to Candidates BUCK, ED
WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA 90046 RETIRED 04-22-2010 $1,000.00 Frank, Barney (D)
Money to Candidates BUCK, ED
WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA 90046 RETIRED 11-03-2009 $1,000.00 Roybal-Allard, Lucille (D)
Money to Candidates BUCK, ED
WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA 90046 RETIRED 05-01-2011 $1,000.00 Portantino, Anthony (D)
Money to Candidates BUCK, ED
WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA 90046 RETIRED 10-26-2012 $1,000.00 Sinema, Kyrsten (D)
Money to PACs BUCK, ED
LOS ANGELES, CA 90046 N/A/RETIRED 04-15-2011 $500.00 Stonewall Democratic Club
Money to Candidates BUCK, ED
WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA 90046 RETIRED 09-30-2011 $250.00 McNerney, Jerry (D)
Money to Candidates BUCK, ED
WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA 90046 RETIRED 06-21-2017 $1,000.00 Krishnamoorthi, Raja (D)
Money to PACs BUCK, ED
WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA 90046 RETIRED 03-15-2016 $5,000.00 Getting Stuff Done PAC (D)
Money to PACs BUCK, ED
WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA 90046 RETIRED 02-24-2015 $5,000.00 Getting Stuff Done PAC (D)
Money to Candidates BUCK, ED
WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA 90046 RETIRED 10-25-2016 $1,700.00 Caforio, Bryan (D)
Money to Candidates BUCK, ED
WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA 90046 RETIRED 12-07-2015 $1,000.00 Lee, Susie (D)
Money to Candidates BUCK, ED
WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA 90046 RETIRED 10-10-2016 $1,000.00 Rosen, Jacky (D)
Money to Candidates BUCK, ED
WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA 90046 RETIRED 10-01-2014 $1,000.00 McNerney, Jerry (D)
Money to Candidates BUCK, ED
LOS ANGELES, CA 90046 RETIRED 05-01-2014 $2,600.00 Honda, Mike (D)
Money to Candidates BUCK, ED
WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA 90046 Not employed 12-13-2014 $1,000.00 Barber, Ron (D)
Money to Candidates BUCK, ED
WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA 90046 RETIRED 05-12-2008 $500.00 McNerney, Jerry (D)
Money to Candidates BUCK, ED
WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA 90046 RETIRED 04-22-2010 $1,000.00 McNerney, Jerry (D)
Money to Candidates BUCK, ED
WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA 90046 RETIRED 09-18-2009 $1,000.00 McNerney, Jerry (D)
Money to Candidates BUCK, ED
WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA 90046 RETIRED 06-29-2011 $1,000.00 Portantino, Anthony (D)
Money to Candidates BUCK, ED
WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA 90046 UNEMPLOYED 05-03-2017 $1,000.00 Gomez, Jimmy (D)
Money to PACs BUCK, ED
WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA 90046 Retired 02-24-2017 $10,400.00 Getting Stuff Done PAC (D)
Money to Candidates BUCK, ED
WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA 90046 RETIRED 02-28-2017 -$2,700.00 Sinema, Kyrsten (D)
Money to PACs BUCK, ED
WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA 90046 RETIRED 03-17-2015 $1,000.00 Ready PAC
Money to Candidates BUCK, ED
LOS ANGELES, CA 90046 RETIRED 08-19-2015 $2,700.00 Lieu, Ted (D)
Money to Candidates BUCK, ED
LOS ANGELES, CA 90046 RETIRED 04-28-2016 $2,700.00 Schiff, Adam (D)
Money to Candidates BUCK, ED
WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA 90046 RETIRED 01-04-2013 $2,500.00 Sinema, Kyrsten (D)
Money to PACs BUCK, ED
WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA 90046 RETIRED 04-07-2014 $1,000.00 Stonewall Young Democrats
Money to PACs BUCK, ED
WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA 90046 RETIRED 12-31-2014 $1,000.00 Ready for Hillary
Money to Candidates BUCK, ED D
WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA 90046 RETIRED 06-15-2017 $1,000.00 Aguilar, Pete (D)

Forgive the cut-and-paste wonkiness. This assumes that all Ed Buck donations from 90046 are the same Ed Buck, even though some list Los Angeles as the city and others West Hollywood, which seems a safe assumption. That’s 77 line items (including three refunds from the Sinema campaign) over two pages of donations, most of $1,000 or more. He gave maximum donations to candidates across the country (Barney Frank in Massachusetts, Pete Gallego in Texas, etc.), and where you see two $2,600 or $2,700 donations to the same candidate in the same year, like he did with California Democratic Representative Ted Lieu in 2014, it indicates he gave the maximum for both the primary and the general election.

I’m pretty sure Lieu didn’t think Buck was a “small-time donor” at the time.

According to Excel, minus the returns, that’s a total of $114,900 accused serial murderer Ed Buck doled out to Democrats. I don’t think that fits most ordinary Americans’ idea of a “small time donor.”

Just before I posted this, I asked three of the four by-lined writers (Arit John, Laura M. Holson, and Mihir Zaveri; the fourth, Emily S. Rueb, does not appear to be on Twitter) why they described Buck as a “small-time donor,” and who made the decision to refer to him that way. I’ll let you know if I get a reply.

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Select Long-Shot House Campaigns

Thursday, October 14th, 2010

A few days ago I covered a handful of the most competitive House races. With tides moving so strongly against the Democrats, now would be a good time to look at some House races that Republicans might view as hopeless in any other year.

But this year, all bets are off.

So here are some long-shot campaigns for the seats of particularly egregious incumbent House Democrats that just might fall the GOP’s way in this election:

  • Jerry Costello of Illinois vs. Teri Newman for Illinois 12th Congressional District. (Teri, here’s a free hint: Auto-running movies with sound on your website isn’t going to win you any votes.) Costello is a Stupak bloc flip-flopper who voted for the Stimulus, but against TARP and Cap-and-Trade.
  • Joseph Donnelly vs. Jackie Walorski for Indiana’s second congressional district. Donnelly is another Stupak bloc flip-flopper, and also voted for TARP and the Stimulus, but against ObamaCare. Walorski has been endorsed by Sarah Palin, so she might well have more money and attention than others on this list.
  • Lloyd Doggett vs. Dr. Donna Campbell for the Texas 25th congressional district. Having endured having old liberal warhorse Lloyd Doggett as my Representative back when I still lived within the confines of The People’s Republic of Austin, I would be delighted to see a Republican take Doggett out. Doggett voted against TARP, but for the Stimulus, Cap-and-Trade, and ObamaCare. One issue in the campaign is Doggett’s writing language into federal law to deprive Texas of almost a billion dollars in federal education funds. In this Human Events piece on the race, Campbell notes that Doggett “voted 98% of the time with Nancy Pelosi. And him getting in again, is one more vote that keeps Pelosi in.”
  • Barney Frank vs. ex-Marine Sean Bielat for Massachusetts’ Fourth Congressional District. Frank is as much responsible as anyone in the House for helping create the current recession by his steadfast opposition to tightening regulation of Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac at the same time he was having an affair with Fannie Mae executive Herb Moses. Frank, as you would expect, has a perfect liberal record in voting for TARP, the Stimulus, Cap-and-Trade, and ObamaCare. Here’s a Wall Street Journal piece on the race.
  • Charlie Rangel vs. Michael Faulkner for New York’s 15th congressional district. Rangel is, of course, a corrupt scumbag. (The question of whether he’s the most corrupt scumbag in the House I’ll leave as an exercise for the reader.) Like Al Sharpton, he has a certain amount of venomous charm. Unlike Sharpton, he’s actually been elected. Like Frank, Rangel has a perfect liberal record in voting for TARP, the Stimulus, Cap-and-Trade, and ObamaCare. Faulkner has a good bit of name recognition from being a former New York Jets football player. The differences between Faulkner and Rangel are legion (not least of which is my working assumption that Faulkner isn’t a corrupt scumbag), but one of particular local interest may play a role if this race becomes the upset of all upsets: Rangel supports the Ground Zero Mosque while Faulkner opposes it. Polling for the race is non-existent (Democrats outnumber Republicans 15-1), but at least some observers think it might be more competitive than expected.

Remember, in 1994 no one expected Speaker of the House Tom Foley’s race to be even remotely competitive, but George Nethercutt still beat him, and there are some observers who say it could very well be much worse for Democrats this year than 1994. If that’s the case, then it’s a good bet one or more of the Republican candidates listed above will pull off an upset.

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