Priorities USA, a super-PAC backing President Obama, is out with a new ad hitting Mitt Romney for his private-sector work, with one former employee saying Romney closed down her plant and "made me sick."
"I worked at the plant going on 34 years. I thought that I was going to retire from there," said Loris Huffman, who worked at the paper company AmPad, which was bought by Bain Capital during Romney's time running the company and declared bankruptcy a few years later. "I had about two and a half years to go. I was suddenly 60 years old, I had no healthcare, and that's scary. When Mitt Romney did that, he made me sick."
The ad will run in Colorado, Florida, Ohio, Virginia and Pennsylvania, and is part of the group's already announced $4 million ad campaign against Romney.
The issue has become a flashpoint this week, with the Obama and Romney campaigns furiously battling over what Romney did in the private sector.
