SF Company Helped Repeal Maine's Same-Sex Marriage Law
SF Appeal brings it to our attention that smarmy San Francisco-based (located on Maiden Lane, specifically) "independent integrated marketing communications company," Criswell and Associates, earned about $700K in the past couple of months producing anti-same-sex marriage ads for Stand For Marriage Maine with the help of SF production company Coyote Films.
Apparently, instead of creating TV spots in Maine with real people, like their pro-gay marriage counterparts did, they had been flying actors out to California, who were given scripts spouting the same false propaganda that the Prop 8 people did -- that if gay marriage were made legal, kids would be taught about homosexuality in schools. They also bought up ads on pro-gay marriage sites via Google AdSense, like the Prop 8 people did.
The folks at Criswell and Associates have failed to respond to SF Appeal's numerous phone calls, so if anyone out there has any questions for them, feel free to reach out. Bill Criswell and Alan Randolph at 58 Maiden Lane, 2nd Floor, (415) 398-2220, or email Bill at billcris@pacbell.net.
Filed in News and tagged gay marriage, government, maine, politics
Thanks for the info... I wonder if we'll see their firm jump into the fray after DC approves same sex marriage. Odds are the legislation will pass, but there's going to be a big push for Congress to get involved once it does.
Business hours picketing of their office would be a good move, also a telegenic one.
The gay folks aren't organized enough to do something bold and politically meaningful. They'd rather listen to Weezer and cut themselves, then whine about it on the internet.
Thumbs down!
Anti-gay? They're on Maiden Lane in between a high-end handbag shop and a Bistro 69.
Just saying.
truth is, they're probably no less scummy than any other marketing concern. and apparently, they earned their money on this one. the whole thing stinks to high heaven.
Picketing a company like this would be much more useful _before_ the election... is this sort of info publicly available beforehand? Next time, could you publish this 2 weeks earlier?