Team Obama denies knowing story of man in its TV ad, call
Posted on AllSides August 8th, 2012
From The Left
When President Obamas aides said they werent familiar with former Missouri steelworker Joe Soptics life story, all they had to do was check their own campaign archives. Soptic, laid off from Bain Capital-owned GST Steel, stars in a Priorities USA Action spot this week in which he tells of how his wife died without health insurance after he lost his job. Soptic also appeared, wearing what appears to be an identical shirt, in a May television ad for the Obama campaign.
