This is a brutal ad from the pro-Obama Super PAC, Priorities USA. It features Joe Soptic, a former employee of the Bain-owned GST Steel plant who lost his job—and the health insurance that covered his family. Here is the transcript in case you cannot watch the video:
Joe Soptic, former employee at GST Steel in Kansas City, Kansas.
I don’t think Mitt Romney understands what he’s done to people’s lives by closing the plant.
I don’t think he realizes that people’s lives completely changed.
When Mitt Romney and Bain closed the plant, I lost my healthcare, and my family lost their 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 that we couldn’t afford the insurance, and then one day she became ill and I took her up to the Jackson County Hospital and admitted her for pneumonia and that’s when they found the cancer and by then it was stage four. It was, there was nothing they could do for her.
And she passed away in 22 days.
I do not think Mitt Romney realizes what he’s done to anyone, and furthermore I do not think Mitt Romney is concerned.
ANNCR: Priorities USA Action is responsible for the content of this advertising.
He most definitely is not concerned.