Priorities USA
Action, a super PAC supporting President Barack Obama, renewed its attacks on
Mitt Romney's record at private equity firm Bain Capital with the release of a
new television ad Tuesday.
The ad, titled
"Understands," focuses on Joe Soptic, a former employee at GST Steel in Kansas
City, Kan. The steel plant was closed by Bain Capital in
2001.
In the
commercial, Soptic recalls how he lost his job and health benefits and was
subsequently unable to afford health insurance for his wife, who later died of
cancer.
Soptic
attributes part of this to the financial burden his family faced after he was
out of a job, perhaps causing his wife not to seek treatment
sooner.
"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."
Polls have
indicated that Priorities USA Action’s advertising is resonating with voters in
critical battleground states. Huffington Post
Mitt Romney has
released a new television ad accusing President Barack Obama of "gutting welfare
reform." The Republican
presidential contender says Obama simply wants to pass out checks without the
work requirement adopted in President Bill Clinton's welfare
overhaul. The Obama
campaign says Romney is twisting the facts. Obama says he's giving states the
flexibility they've asked for to make welfare more efficient. Romney is among
several Republican governors who signed a letter back in 2005 asking for more
"waiver authority." The ad is part
of Romney's push to paint Obama as a big-government liberal.
AP
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