A new Obama ad accuses Mitt Romney of being responsible for woman's death. Read below:
Priorities USA, the super-PAC backing President Obama, unveiled a tough new ad Tuesday featuring a former steelworker who says he could not afford healthcare for his sick wife after his company was purchased and shut down by Bain Capital, the private equity firm founded by Mitt Romney.
“I don't think Mitt Romney understands what he's done to people's lives by closing the plant,” says former GST Steel employee Joe Soptic, speaking to the camera in the new ad, titled “Understands.” “I don't think he realizes that people's lives completely changed.”
Soptic says his wife was dying of cancer when he lost his job and company health benefits.
“When Mitt Romney closed the plant, I lost my healthcare and my family lost its healthcare and a short time after that my wife became ill. I don’t know how long she was sick, and I think maybe she didn’t say anything because she knew we couldn’t afford the insurance,” Soptic says. “And one day she became ill and I took her up to the Jackson County Hospital and that’s when they found the cancer. And by then it was stage four and there was nothing they could do for her and she passed away in two days.”
The Romney campaign has pushed back on other GST Steel-related attacks by arguing that the plant in Kansas City closed after he stepped away from his management job at Bain. (Democrats counter that Romney was still listed as a top executive at Bain through 2002, and that he built up the private equity firm during the time it invested in GST Steel.)
In the case of this particularly jarring super PAC ad, it may also be relevant that Soptic’s wife died in 2006, years after the GST factory closed down.
A 2006 story in the Kansas City Star reported the death of Ranae Soptic, a former champion roller skater: “Soptic went to the hospital for pneumonia, but doctors found signs of very advanced cancer, and she died two weeks later on June 22.” READ THE FULL STORY AT POLITICO
Former steel worker Joe Soptic has resurfaced in a new pro-Obama Super-PAC ad, blaming Romney for his wife’s death from cancer.
“I do not think Mitt Romney realizes what he’s done to anyone,” Soptic says in the ad. “And furthermore I do not think Mitt Romney is concerned.”
But Soptic is actually a familiar face on the anti-Bain beat, and accused Romney of this before.
Soptic was featured in an Obama ad in May, who explained that although he wasn’t “rich” he was able to put his daughter through college.
In January, Soptic complained to Democracy Now, a liberal non-profit TV station, that when the steel company he worked for was bought out by Bain, they tried to buy out his job... READ MORE HERE AT WASHINGTON EXAMINER
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