Posted on 02/11/2016 6:19:32 PM PST by M. Thatcher
Amy Lindsay has appeared in films such as Erotic Confessions, Carnal Wishes, Secrets of a Chambermaid, and Insatiable Desires. "Had the campaign known of her full filmography, we obviously would not have let her appear in the ad," a Cruz campaign spokesman told BuzzFeed News.
Ted Cruz's campaign has pulled its most recent ad, "Conservatives Anonymous," after learning one of the actresses in the spot is also a softcore porn star.
The ad, which was set at a group therapy session of conservative voters who feel betrayed by Marco Rubio on immigration, featured actress Amy Lindsay, who played a woman telling another group member, "maybe you should vote for more than just a pretty face next time."
Lindsay has appeared in several softcore porn films, including Erotic Confessions, Carnal Wishes, Secrets of a Chambermaid, and Insatiable Desires.
BuzzFeed News, after learning of Lindsay's prior filmography, requested comment from the Cruz campaign. Cruz spokesman Rick Tyler told BuzzFeed News in a statement that the campaign is taking the ad down and replacing it with a different one.
"The actress responded to an open casting call. She passed her audition and got the job. Unfortunately, she was not vetted by the production company. Had the campaign known of her full filmography, we obviously would not have let her appear in the ad," Tyler said.
Prior to the Cruz campaign pulling the ad, Lindsay told BuzzFeed News in a phone interview on Thursday that she's a Christian conservative and a Republican. While she emphasized that she did not do hardcore porn and that she also appeared in non-erotic films, Lindsay said she thinks it is cool that an actress who has appeared in softcore porn could also appear in Cruz's ad.
"In a cool way, then hey, then it's not just some old, white Christian bigot that people want to say, 'It could be, maybe, a cool kind of open-minded woman like me,'" she said of people supporting Cruz.
Though Lindsay initially told BuzzFeed News that the person at the campaign who hired her "absolutely knew everything that I had done," she later called back to say that she realized that was not the case.
"I have clearly talked to the filmmakers and stuff and just to be clear, I assumed that they knew but none of the filmmakers or the casting director knew about my complete filmography in the past that you're talking about, so I was wrong in that statement," Lindsay said, saying that she had assumed that an old friend of hers from an acting class who was present when she was hired was aware of her film history.
Lindsay said she is currently deciding whether to support Cruz or Donald Trump.
“Ted Cruz’s campaign has pulled its most recent ad, “Conservatives Anonymous,” after learning one of the actresses in the spot is also a softcore porn star. “
Who informed Ted about her? Sounds like Teddy’s staff may have recognized her. If that is the case, that person should be removed - just saying.
And somewhere in America Bill Clinton is envious.
This is what happens when you posture a “holier than thou”, and you really aren’t.
Your feelings on the matter do not count as objective reality.
Funny how this was about Cruz, and you Cruzbots are trying to smear Trump and his wife .. grasping at straws again ...
Melania will make a wonderful first lady ... she is a total class act and you only embarrass yourself by trying to trash a woman for her beauty
How do you know?
Quite the contrary .. tell me why you think that ?
Poor actress has got to make a living. At least she’s not on thedole, using an Obamaphone and carrying an EBT card.
OXYMORON ALERT!
This would be used to trash Trump if it had been Trump. Which is wrong that Cruz supporters are ready to excuse Cruz campaign on everything.
That said no campaign could have known this unless they closely followed porn. So it is no big issue.
Not bad looking at all.
Pathetic. So the people who support the candidate that openly boasts about being a serial adulterer will try to say that the fact that an ad agency hired an actress that had done softcore porn to be in an ad somehow reflects badly on Cruz.
She looks a little like Martha MacCallum.
Cruz fail.
Yes, sorry. I forgot to put the 'C' in front of rap.
Is Cruz related to JEB?
They both seem to be doing really stupid stuff - from Beck to porn stars on campaign commercials.
So which candidate blew the whistle on this young lady?
I guess we will never know. It’s not exactly a positive to be widely known as somebody who can identify porn stars from a brief appearance in an unrelated context. Or was it just Bill Clinton being helpful to the other party?
We know it wasn’t Dr Ben Carson because he never opens his eyes.
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