Posted on 08/08/2012 8:30:42 PM PDT by kristinn
...played a role in the death of Ilyona Soptic at age 55.
The ad features Joe Soptic, 62, of Missouri, who lost his job when GST Steel of Kansas City—owned by Bain and other investors for eight years—was closed. As melancholy music plays, Mr. Soptic says that when the plant closed, he and his family lost their health-care coverage and "a short time after that, my wife became ill." Her illness was diagnosed five years later. "I don't think Mitt Romney understands what he's done to people's lives by closing the plant," Mr. Soptic says in the ad.
The steel plant was purchased in 1993 and closed in 2001. Mr. Romney departed Bain in 1999 and had no role in the decision to close the plant, his campaign said.
In an interview, Mr. Soptic said he thought the ad was fair. But he also said of Mr. Romney: "I'm not blaming him for her death. I wouldn't do that."
Mr. Soptic said that his wife was receiving health insurance through her employer at the time he lost his job at GST Steel, though she later suffered an injury, left her job and lost her insurance coverage. He could not say precisely when this occurred.
Mr. Soptic said that after he lost his job, he found work as a school custodian about six months later and had the option to put her on his insurance plan. But he opted not to, he said, because he could not afford the more than $350 monthly premium on the $25,000 salary he was making, on top of paying his mortgage and a daughter's college tuition. Ilyona Soptic was diagnosed with cancer in 2006 and died that year.
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Hey your answer should be a GOOD CAMPAIGN FOR ROMney to hammer about the fine under Obamacare! Hello, any ROMNEY people paying attention - this stuff is just too easy not to use in the campaign...
Hey your answer should be a GOOD CAMPAIGN FOR ROMney to hammer about the fine under Obamacare! Hello, any ROMNEY people paying attention - this stuff is just too easy not to use in the campaign...
“I’m very sorry he lost his wife to cancer”
But we don’t even know if she had been insured it would have prevented the cancer.
In the ad he says that she “probably” didn’t tell him that she was sick because she didn’t have insurance. But, we don’t know that. Cancer can come with no warning.
This is just trumped up lying.
Even beyond that...by the time she had symptoms and was taken to the hospital and it was discovered what it was, no amount of insurance would have made a difference.
It was a factually false ad in many ways - he said she got sick “a short time later” but didn’t want to go to the doctor because they knew they didn’t have insurance...now we know she had insurance for some time afterward so a “short time” could not have been correct, yet that’s what he said. It was discovered 7 years after Romney left Bain - there is no way he had any responsibility. The plant also would have shut down sooner but for Bain - years sooner. So he would have been better off if Bain had not bought the plant and it shut down years before and he still lost the insurance? Any way you slice it - there is nothing true about the ad, other than he tragically lost his wife. I really can’t understand why someone would use this for a partisian political attack like this.
But he's looking forward to ObamaScare, where the fines will be $325 a month per person, but will STILL not provide him with insurance. Some people are just born extra stupid.
Besides the ad being false and despicable, there is something else to note. Within 24 hours, it’s been torn to shreds. How incompetent are Obama’s people that they ran the ad in the first place? Or are they so arrogant that they think this will fly?
The answer is YES!
If I was his daughter, I would not have accepted tuition money if it meant my mom went without insurance!
A couple of years ago, I was in a Catholic bookstore. When I went up to the cashier, there were three older ladies talking. I joined the conversation and, when I mentioned Obama, all four of us said simultaneously, "He lies!"
I had never seen something like that happen.
Maybe people are figuring it out.
Definitely not. It sounds like no one in the family cared what happened to her. There is a lot more to this story. I'll look for it on NBC. /s
Just imagine how many guys are going to lose their wives after losing their jobs at Solyndra! This is going to get ugly and it’s going to be Barry the Kenyan Guy’s fault. Axelrod and David the Poof too!
I'm sure the "news" media will skip this little nugget as "inconvenient" .
Sounds like an easy scam to me...
Meanwhile, Mr. Septic (progressive ghoul) is working his second bogus anti-Romney rant.
Both are likely to resurface again and again between now and November.
It does not matter one bit that they are both proved to be liars...the great lie has been told, repeated, and will be accepted as gospel by the believers and some number of hopeful "undecideds".
Lies work.
Sounds like an easy scam to me...
Filmmaker Reveals 'Deeply Disturbing' Obama Background
Excerpt:
* * * [His] evidence suggests that Obama’s biological father was Frank Marshall Davis, a Communist Party USA propagandist, and who has prevailing influence over White House actions even today. * * *
No surprises here. Something reeks in the White House
Yuh gambled and lost
Desperation. They don’t have anyone better to put in front of the cameras, and they are just throwing ideas at the wall in the hopes that something, anything will stick.
This is the most outrageous, fatuous, despicable piece of political advertising imaginable.
We know who is really waging the war on women: Obama & his allies. They can't help but LIE and exploit.
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