Motel Owner Says He’s Victim of Card Club Fight : Politics: He fears a picture on a brochure opposing Measure A will make people think prostitutes use the place.

An outraged Anaheim motel owner said Wednesday that his business was used without permission as the backdrop in a provocative campaign mailer sent to voters this week by opponents of the effort to allow card clubs here.

“Now people think that the motel has prostitutes in it,” said Daud Alani, who said he has run a clean operation at the Razzmatazz Motel for a quarter-century.

The photograph shows two women in high-cut shorts and heels standing before the motel. One woman is leaning into the passenger window of a car parked across the street from the motel. Another woman, in a lacy shirt, gazes at the motel, in the 800 block of South Beach Boulevard in Anaheim.

The mailer asks: “Do we want this on Beach Boulevard again?” and urges voters to defeat Measure A, which would allow card clubs to open in the city. Many Stanton residents received the mailer Tuesday.

One card club opponent, Councilman Harry Dotson, who has written the ballot argument against Measure A, said the mailer “goes along with what we have been trying to say, that (card clubs) will bring prostitution to our city.”

Dotson said he did not know who was behind the mailer.

The campaign literature bears the name of the California Sports, Entertainment and Gaming Assn., a Los Angeles-based political action committee. Calls Wednesday to David L. Gould, who is listed with the secretary of state’s office as the organization’s treasurer, were not returned.

The committee has registered with the secretary of state and the Los Angeles County registrar-recorder’s offices but has not filed a financial statement for the Stanton Measure A campaign that requires officers to disclose names of their financial backers.

The committee is funded by the Bicycle Club, according to a Los Angeles-area political consultant who has said he worked for the Bell Gardens casino on a similar campaign against a West Hollywood card club proposal.

Bicycle Club General Manager George Hardie did not return calls to his office Wednesday.

In an interview earlier this month, consultant Michael Triggs said the Bicycle Club was the main supporter of the committee.

The Bicycle Club was also linked to a 1991 campaign against card clubs in South Gate, according to state records.

The mailer was welcomed by opponents of the Stanton card club measure. “We really need all the help we can get,” said David J. Shawver, chairman of the Committee for Community Pride and Forward Vision--No on Measure A.

Shawver said he did not know who was behind the group, which he said made a donation of $1,100 worth of brochures that his volunteers distributed. Supporters of card clubs have pointed out that the brochures are identical to ones distributed during the South Gate campaign.

“From what I understand, this organization has fought against card clubs in other cities,” Shawver said.

Others, however, were angered by the mailer.

“They’ve actually slurred this man,” said Councilman Joe V. Harris, who has led the campaign for card clubs in Stanton. “Why drag a viable business into it?”

“I’m going to find out who did this, and I’m going to sue them,” said motel owner Alani.

The California Sports, Entertainment and Gaming Assn. name also appears on scores of “No on A” signs placed illegally on telephone poles and street lights in Stanton. The City Council hotly debated the sign issue at its Tuesday meeting but decided to leave them up until after the election.