CNN reviewed the ad this afternoon and found it is "not accurate." Turns out Soptic's wife still had her own insurance after he lost his job. She stopped working as a result of an accident:
In 2001, Joe Soptic loses his job when Bain closes the plant. His wife still has insurance, though, through her employer, Saver's thrift store. A year later, Romney formerly leaves Bain. And it's that year, 2002, or perhaps 2003, Soptic tells CNN, that his wife leaves her job because of an injury. That's when she became uninsured without fallback insurance from her husband. A few years later, in 2006, she goes to the hospital is diagnosed with cancer and dies just days later.
Bill Burton at Priorities USA is now claiming that he did not intend to connect Romney to the death of Soptic's wife. This is obviously a lie. Watch the video. There's no other conclusion you can draw from it. This ad is so dirty that even the people who made it don't want to take credit for it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Nj70XqOxptU
In 2001, Joe Soptic loses his job when Bain closes the plant. His wife still has insurance, though, through her employer, Saver's thrift store. A year later, Romney formerly leaves Bain. And it's that year, 2002, or perhaps 2003, Soptic tells CNN, that his wife leaves her job because of an injury. That's when she became uninsured without fallback insurance from her husband. A few years later, in 2006, she goes to the hospital is diagnosed with cancer and dies just days later.
Bill Burton at Priorities USA is now claiming that he did not intend to connect Romney to the death of Soptic's wife. This is obviously a lie. Watch the video. There's no other conclusion you can draw from it. This ad is so dirty that even the people who made it don't want to take credit for it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Nj70XqOxptU
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