Maine Anti-Gay Campaign to Run San Francisco Produced Ads

by Paul Hogarth via Beyond Chron

Tue, Sep 15, 2009 8:04AM

Tuesday, September 15, 2009 : Today, Maine voters will get barraged with the first anti-gay campaign commercial of the season – filmed in a San Francisco studio, with actors solicited on Craigslist. Mainers don’t appreciate outsiders telling them how to live their lives, so this stunt by the “Yes on 1” effort to repeal marriage equality could turn into a P.R. disaster. As some bloggers discovered last week, the “Yes on 1” campaign solicited actors online who have “Maine middle-class” accents – and after a brief audition, flew them out to San Francisco for the local firm Criswell & Associates to film the ads.

Criswell is a large political consulting firm, whose clients have included Tom McClintock, Wal-Mart, the American Plastics Council and the “gathering storm” ads of the National Organization for Marriage. But it will be hard for most San Franciscans to learn much online about this local connection, and how it’s aiding the effort in Maine. Despite an impressive web presence, Criswell suddenly shut down its website yesterday, along with its Facebook page and YouTube account

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§gays are coming for your children middle-class maine

by be afraid

Tue, Sep 15, 2009 11:51AM

scare people. must. scare. people

a storm is gathering, a big gay storm...

For more information: http://thesmokingcocktail.blogspot.com/200...

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§Please publish websites of MAINE pro-marriage group(s)

by so we can help

Wed, Sep 16, 2009 5:46PM

Please publish websites of MAINE
queer and/or
pro-marriage group(s)--
soonest

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§Motivated by prudish prejudices

by just an FYI

Mon, Nov 2, 2009 12:09AM

Kathy Griffin who pretended to support gay rights
quietly gave $5,000 to the yes on prop 8 movement
For someone who shamelessly begs us to buy her books and see her not so funny shows, to work against us behind our backs is dreadful

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