again, post a link, not the article itself. waste of electrons, space.
and what's your point, anyway?
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> From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion
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> Subject: OT: Clinton accuser of selling secrets to china
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> 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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