This is the guy that made the ad.

Girl in 2000 political ad testifies in sex assault case
BY BRITTNEY BOOTH The Monitor

EDINBURG — June 17, 2006 — A young girl featured in a controversial 
television ad during the 2000 presidential campaign testified this week 
that the man who developed the commercial molested her for years and forced 
her to watch pornography and use sex toys.

The girl, now 15, told jurors Carey Lee Cramer — a 44-year-old political 
consultant who gained national notoriety when he released an anti-Al Gore 
ad showing a young girl picking daisy petals and ending in a nuclear blast —
 began molesting her in the third grade, when she lived in Mercedes with 
him, his then-wife and her younger brother.

The ad in which she and another girl were featured was a remake of one 
Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson’s campaign used against Republican 
Barry Goldwater in 1964.

The girl took the stand Thursday in Cramer’s aggravated child sexual 
assault trial, which began June 7 in Hidalgo County before Visiting Judge 
Homer Salinas’ Auxiliary Court A. She continued testifying Friday.

Cramer’s defense attorney, Charles Banker, argues the allegations are false 
and stem from a custody battle over the son Cramer shares with his ex-wife, 
Samara Whittaker.

The girl shared graphic testimony. At times, she appeared to fight back 
tears and her voice quivered as she gave detailed accounts.

She told jurors Cramer began by taking her into his home office and showing 
her pornography when she was 8. He would touch her sexually, remove her 
clothing and perform deviant sexual acts on her. The incidents occurred 
weekly, when the girl was home alone with Cramer.

By the time she was in the fifth grade, Cramer began to force her to 
perform acts he would share with her from pornographic Web sites, including 
oral sex, she said. He also tried to make the girl use a vibra-tor and 
other sex toys, she continued. And Cramer forced her to have sex with him 
three times, she testi-fied.

She said Cramer continued to molest her after they moved from Mercedes to 
McAllen and Tucson, Ariz., until she finally reported the abuse in 2004.

In response to the defense’s claim she was lying to help Whittaker in her 
custody battle, she denied it.

“I haven’t lied for her and I won’t,” she said. “I told you everything that 
happened that he did to me.”

She said she initially denied the abuse to Child Protective Services 
because Cramer threatened to keep her away from her family if she told.

Jurors have also heard testimony from the girl’s therapist, a doctor who 
examined her and police offi-cers who investigated the case.

Earlier in the week, another 15-year-old testified that Cramer touched her 
under her underwear one time when she was visiting the family in Mercedes. 
Cramer’s alleged victims are relatives.

The ad for which Cramer gained national attention was produced to accuse 
the Clinton-Gore Admini-stration of giving nuclear technology to China in 
return for campaign contributions. At the time, he re-fused to identify who 
financed the commercial. 

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