Maker of Anti-GORE Campaign Ad Charged with Child Sexual Assault

[UTUSN]

The first, early item skims the surface. Then the plot thickens and the 2nd item identifies the alleged pervert as the maker of the scummy anti-GORE ad in 2000. Drip-drip. What a scummy crew we've been up against, lo, these many years. Too bad "our" guys never fight hard enough.

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http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/index.php?page=local&story_id=052105a8_sexindict

Saturday, May 21, 2005

Tucsonan facing sex charges in Texas

SHERYL KORNMAN
Tucson Citizen

A Tucson man was indicted in Texas on May 11 on six counts of aggravated sexual assault on a child. ....

Cramer's telephone number in Tucson has been disconnected, and he could not be reached yesterday for comment.

Cramer also was indicted on two counts of indecency with a child involving sexual contact and one count of indecency with a child involving exposure, according to court documents filed in Hidalgo County.

The alleged incidents took place between 1999 and 2001.

Cramer was released on $20,000 bond, pending a hearing in the case set for June 1 in Texas.



http://www.themonitor.com/SiteProcessor.cfm?Template=/GlobalTemplates/Details.cfm&StoryID=7544&Section=Local

Ad creator charged with molestation
June 04,2005


EDINBURG — A man who made national news in 2000 by producing an anti-Al Gore television ad featuring his stepdaughter is now charged in Hidalgo County with multiple counts of molesting the girl and another young relative.

Carey Lee Cramer, 43, pleaded not guilty to six counts of aggravated sexual assault, two counts of indecency with a child by sexual contact and one count of indecency with a child by exposure. ....

In 2000, Cramer used his stepdaughter, then 9 years old, in a pro-Republican commercial that made national news because it accused the Clinton-Gore administration of giving nuclear technology to China in return for campaign contributions.

The commercial showed a young girl picking daisy petals and ends with a nuclear blast, a remake of a 1964 ad by Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson’s campaign against Republican Barry Goldwater. The original commercial aired only once.

Cramer created the ad for Aretino Industries, according to a 2000 article by The Associated Press. He refused to identify who paid for the commercial.

The ad was pulled after airing in several cities. Bush’s former spokesman Ari Fleischer condemned "anonymous ads like this," according to the AP.

Whittaker, who now lives in Arizona, said she now thinks Cramer molested her daughter during the making of the commercial. She does not know who funded the ad. ....

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[slaveplanet]

1. why does this not surprise me?...

[Hubert Flottz]

2. The Democrats lost in 2004 because of the "Morality" issue?

Has that Compassionate Conservative back slid, just a tiny bit, for just a second or two, or what? And to beat it all, they had to steal the idea for the Ad from LBJ old crew to start with!

[ck4829]

3. This sounds Gosch like

You know, right?

This to me reminds of the Child Slave scandal of the Reagan Administration.

"He refused to identify who paid for the commercial"

"She does not know who funded the ad"

Just call it a hunch, but I think this is much, much bigger than it seems.

[FreedomAngel82]

24. I wouldn't be surprised

I think you're right ck4829.

[fasttense]

4. It is amazing how many sex perverts, cheats and liars the repukes

are able to convert to their religion, I mean political party.

[ConfuZed]

15. When people try to kick this perv out of their neighborhood...

...you know where this going. :)

[blm]

17. Maybe Bill Bennett can have his Dominatrix give this guy the whipping he

deserves.

[LincolnMcGrath]

5. recommended

and kicked





Add him to the list....



http://www.armchairsubversive.com/

[peekaloo]

6. same.

[Hubert Flottz]

10. "Family Values" and "Morals" and shit!

Part of Jerry and Pat's Immoral Majority?

EDIT: Looks like that republican black ops operative was "focused on the family" alright!

[doubleplusgood]

7. is there a website that tracks this stuff ?

Does anyone know of a website or database somewhere that keeps track of all these Republican criminals ? Stories about this, the Spokane mayor, Gannon/Guckert, and other numerous child mpolester & rapists scandals with GOP perps. need to be documented & cataloged.

[Pharlo]

22. doubleplusgood,

Have you tried RedMorals?

It's a website dedicated to tracking the immoral activities of the 'Red' politicians....

http://tesibria.typepad.com/redmorals/

Is this the type of site you were looking for?

[doubleplusgood]

27. Wow, that's a great site !

Just what I've been looking for...nice breakdown by state & year, too. Thanks for the link, Pharlo.

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[barbaraann]

14. I used to think of the GOP as the party of greed.

But in the last year or so I have come to realize that they are truly the party of sexual perversion.

[Nothing Without Hope]

9. Geez, what is it about these creeps? There seem to be so many

pedophiles popping up among the neocons and their enablers - and that's just the ones who have been exposed so far.

[UTUSN]

11. Aretino Industries. CBS: "Who Grew This Daisy?"

Too bad there aren't any answers to the question. Google http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGLD,GGLD:2004-07,GGLD:en&q=Aretino+Industries

has many references of back then documenting the outrageous ad, but no real "investigative" reporting on who "Aretino Industries" is.

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http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2000/10/27/politics/main244829.shtml

Who Grew This Daisy?

WASHINGTON, Oct. 27, 2000
The Ad: A mysterious group based in Texas called Aretino Industries has released a new attack ad modeled after the infamous "Daisy" commercial that President Johnson aired (once) in 1964. The original ad showed a little girl picking petals from a daisy and ended with a countdown to a nuclear explosion. It was intended to show that Johnson's GOP foe, Barry Goldwater, might lead the U.S. into nuclear war. The new ad uses the same visuals but levels a different accusation: that President Clinton and Vice President Gore sold nuclear technology to Red China in exchange for campaign contributions. A spokesman for the group refused to disclose who was paying for the ad. Aretino Industries describes itself as a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization recently created by 22 "common friends" from across the country. The initial ad buy is $60,000 but the group plans to spend $500,000 between now and Election Day. The ad is airing in Ohio, Michigan, California, Florida, Pennsylvania and Missouri. ....


The Strategy: Daisy Girl II targets undecided voters in six battleground states by raising questions about national security and Gore's trustworthiness. While the nuclear imagery seeks to appeal to voters' most basic fears, the reference to the 1996 fundraising scandals takes aim at one of Gore's weakest spots. Though the group calls itself nonpartisan and claims no tie to the Bush campaign, the ad's opening line crediting Republicans for ending the Cold War and its closing line "Vote Republican" clearly reveals a partisan edge.

Aretino Industries is not the first anonymous group to air ads in Campaign 2000 without disclosing its donors - a group called "Republicans for Clean Air" ran ads at the height of the Repubican primary seaspm attacking John McCain, while a group called "Shape the Debate" aired ads in late March criticizing Al Gore. While a Gore spokesman called the ad "the hidden hand of the right wing swooping in to help Texas Governor George Bush," the Bush campaign immediately denounced the ad, calling on the group to pull it off the air.


http://nucnews.net/nucnews/2000nn/0010nn/001027nn.htm#12

.... Carey Cramer, of Aretino Industries of McAllen, Texas, distributed information about the spot, but would not say who was paying to air the ad. He said his group hopes to spend $500,000 between now and Election Day, and has bought time in Orlando, Fla.; Pittsburgh; Sacramento, Calif.; Lansing, Mich.; and Springfield, Mo.

Karen Hughes, Bush's communications director, said the daisy ad is an anonymous attack commercial ``in no way associated with our campaign.''

``George Bush condemns these types of anonymous attack ads,'' she said. She also said Bush strategist Karl Rove had called Cramer and asked him ``to pull down that ad.'' ....


http://www.mrc.org/cyberalerts/2000/cyb20001028.asp#1

A guy in Texas produced an anti-Gore TV ad designed, ABC’s Aaron Brown conceded Friday night in a story which fulfilled the producer’s plan, "to get attention for nothing" spent money-wise. ABC, CNN, FNC, MSNBC and NBC Friday night all ran clips and condemnations of the so-called "Daisy II" ad made by a man working out of a mail drop in a strip mall while ABC and NBC gave far less attention to officially-sanction Democratic Party scare phone calls placed into Michigan which blame Bush’s policies for causing a man to die in a nursing home. The CBS Evening News avoided the campaign altogether -- see item #4 below.

On Friday’s World News Tonight, ABC’s Aaron Brown admitted that on the "Daisy II" ad: "We’ve been able to confirm only four stations that have actually run the ad at a cost of about a thousand dollars. Nevertheless, the ad has received extraordinary attention." Attention the networks decided to give it while continuing to ignore the ad produced by the NAACP, a group closely aligned with the DNC, which features James Byrd’s daughter claiming of Bush’s opposition to a hate crimes bill: "It was like my father was killed all over again." ....

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[Dr.Phool]

12. He should have gone to Georgia for a mule

And he wouldn't be in any trouble.

[UTUSN]

13. "Aretino Industries" Website. And Mr Pietro ARETINO Himself

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGLD,GGLD:2004-07,GGLD:en&q=Aretino

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http://www.aretinoindustries.com/home.html



http://www.artarchiv.net/doku/museum/Aretino.htm

Pietro Aretino 1492 - 1556

Aretino and his Sixteen Postures

The career break of Aretino came when he wrote a mock last will and testament in 1516 for Pope Leo X's pet elephant, Hanno, complete with bequeathing the beast's genitals to one of the lustier cardinals. From then on, he became infamous in Italy as one of the lewdest and wittiest writers, the Renaissance mouth that roared.

In 1524, Aretino wrote sonnets to accompany the drawings of sixteen sexual positions by Giuliano Romano, Raphael's talented twenty-five-year-old pupil. Their collaboration produced one of history's most notorious works of erotic art.

Casanova in his memoirs mentions spending New Year's Eve 1753 with a nun doing Aretino's 'straight tree' position, which he says featured the man standing and holding the woman upside-down for mutual oral sex.

Aretino barely escaped prison for his involvement in the Sixteen Postures, but it certainly didn't teach him to mend his ways.

http://www.wga.hu/database/glossary/illustri/aretino.html

.... Until the last decades Aretino's reputation, because of his unshifty interest in sex, was either academic or clandestine. While not yet the subject of a full reappraisal, he can at last be openly judged and enjoyed.

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[LibertyorDeath]

16. There's only one solution for people like this

They can't be rehabilitated so it's the best option. imo

[kodi]

18. good gracious, what is it about Republicans and their pedophilia?

about every week another sick bastard GOP activist or politician is caught screwing a little boy or girl.

STAMP OUT REPUBLICAN PEDOPHILIA NOW!

[CatWoman]

19. hey sweet thang

:hi:

GOOD FIND!!! :thumbsup:

[Tuesday_Morning]

20. Aretino was a blackmailer apparently...

Author of lives of saints, scurrilous verses, comedies, tragedies, and innumerable letters, Pietro Aretino (1492–1556) attained considerable wealth and influence, in part through literary flattery and blackmail. Little is known of his early years, but by 1527 he had settled permanently in Venice. Among Aretino’s friends and patrons were some of the most prominent figures of his time, several of whom gave him gold chains such as the one he wears in this portrait.

http://www.frick.org/html/pntg25f.htm

[Octafish]

21. Was this perverted turd involved in the subliminal "RATS" ad?

Two controversial ads appeared in the 2000 campaign:

* The "Rats" ad.  The FCC was investigating the airing of a controversial Republican National Committee ad which utilized an alleged subliminal message.  Supposedly, the last syllable of the "bureaucrats" was placed in a few selected frames of the commercial.  Two Democratic senators complained that that was subliminal advertising which is banned by the FCC.  The FCC sent letters to 217 stations which aided the commercial. (AP, 9/18/00)

* A group not associated with the campaign sponsored another ad which may turn out to be even more controversial.  Patterned after the famous "Daisy" ad of 1964 which suggested Barry Goldwater might take the nation into nuclear war, the 2000 spot shows a little girl plucking daisy  petals and ends with a nuclear blast.   The voice over states allegations that China stole nuclear secrets from the U.S. and supported candidates in 1996.  It encourages voters to vote Republican. It is sponsored by an unknown group, but was distributed by Carey Cramer of Aretino Industries of McAllen, Texas.  The sponsoring group, he said, plans to spend a half million dollars to air the spot in key states in the 10 days before the election.  (AP, 10/26/00)

SOURCE:

http://fly.hiwaay.net/~jmcmulle/450polad.htm

BTW: What is it with these Bush conservatives? Are they ALL NAZI perverts?

[UTUSN]

29. Not That We Know of. That Would Be THIS B.F.E.E. Turd: CASTELLANOS

(On the extreme Right, heh-heh.)
But call me Tinfoil, but I wouldn't doubt they're all connected, including THESE oldies, Roger & Nikki STONE, who probably were involved in the CBS/MAPES story (to the Left of Alex, positional only).

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http://www.natmedia.com/about/castellanos.htm

Alex Castellanos is one of the Republican Party's new generation of TV-advertising consultants. Castellanos has served as media consultant to five US Presidential campaigns. He has helped elect eight US Senators, six Governors, and enjoys over two decades of political consulting experience, both in the United States and abroad. Fortune singled out Mr. Castellanos as a "new style media master." Mr. Castellanos brings a wealth of campaign strategy, public opinion research and communications experience to corporate communications and public policy campaigns.

Mr. Castellanos, a native of Havana, Cuba, is fluent in Spanish and English. His parents, refugees who fled Castro's Cuba in 1961, came to this country with one suitcase, two children and eleven dollars.

A Morehead and National Merit Scholar at the University of North Carolina, Mr. Castellanos lectures frequently internationally and in the United States, from Harvard University to the United States Army Communication School.

http://www.pbs.org/30secondcandidate/timeline/years/1990_c.html

1990 In the North Carolina Senate campaign, Republican incumbent Jesse Helms was several points behind Democrat Harvey Gantt in polls taken shortly before the election.

Over a weekend, political consultant Alex Castellanos wrote and produced an ad called "Hands." Gantt's support of affirmative action had been identified on surveys as an unpopular position.

The controversial "Hands" featured a close-up shot of two hands holding a letter and crumpling it as a narrator says "You needed that job, but they had to give it to a minority."

Helms made up the difference in the polls and won re-election.


http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2004/03/15/castellanos/index_np.html

Going negative
He's the father of the modern attack ad, and he's behind the Bush campaign's new wave of anti-Kerry spots. Alex Castellanos is known as vicious, irresponsible -- and effective.

http://www.netspace.org/users/seiden/rats.htm

Alex Castellanos, who produced the commercial ("RATS") for the Republican National Committee, insisted that the use of the word was "purely accidental," saying, "We don't play ball that way. I'm not that clever."

Asked when he had first noticed the word in the commercial, Mr. Castellanos said, "That's all I want to say."

Several Republican and Democratic advertising consultants who were told of the commercial, as well as many independent academics, said they were startled that such a word would appear and said it appeared to be a subliminal attempt to discredit Mr. Gore.

But Mr. Bush said today that the suggestion that the ad was meant to be subliminal was "bizarre and weird."

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[FreedomAngel82]

23. Oh wow

How disgusting. How could he get out on jail bond? He's a criminal!

[mitchum]

25. Grand Old Pedophiles

[kimchi]

26. I hope someone is keeping track of all these Pub sickos.

So we can send them to prison.

[liberalnurse]

28. I'd love to know if he is still being held

in jail or if he posted bond? If he is in jail....what a prize he will be in the "Sandbox" pods.

OOPS!!! I found this in the links from your Post:

Cramer and was released from Hidalgo County Jail on Thursday on a $30,000 surety bond. He was allowed to return to his residence in Arizona until a court hearing is set.


I guess we will have to wait for his "awakening" experience.

[UTUSN]

30. Curious that a/n "alleged" Pervert Would Know about the Renaissance

and would be a lover of wingnutism.