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Wednesday, August 8, 2012

Ad Watch: Ad Tries to Link Ex-Worker\'s Losses to Bain

By RICHARD A. OPPEL JR.

Priorities USA Action, a “super PAC” supporting President Obama, released an advertisement on Tuesday suggesting that Mitt Romney's actions indirectly contributed to a woman's death. Joe Soptic, a former worker at GST Steel in Kansas City, Mo., speaks into the camera, while the ad intersperses shots of a shuttered factory.

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The super PAC ad compresses time in way that links the closure of the GST plant with Mrs. Soptic's fatal illness.