Romney's Garbage Man Speaks Out: 'Mitt Romney Doesn't Care' (VIDEO)
Mitt Romney's garbage man has become the face for a new ad that references a previous statement made by Romney: he said it is not his "job to worry about those people," referring to 47 of Americans he thinks won't vote for him.
A new ad, supported by the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), highlights the people who pick up Romney's trash from his oceanfront mansion in La Jolla, Calif.
"It's a beautiful neighborhood," Joan Raymond says of Romney's neighborhood in one of the videos. "The reason he want to be there I take it is because it is so beautiful. It's right on the beach; its in one of the most pristine neighborhoods."
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It is only clean however, because it is maintained by people like Raymond, the video suggests.
"It's so hypocritical because he is going after our workers, and wanting to cut cut cut our workers," she says. "They are the same workers that are making that neighborhood in La Jolla on the beach so desirable a place to live."
Another video introduces Richard Hayes, who says that he, too picks up Romney's trash.
"We are kind of like the invisible people," Hayes says. Hayes criticizes Romney over the healthcare issue, fearing that his job will eventually leave him in need of care.
"Picking up 15, 16 tons by hand you know, that takes a toll on your body," Hayes states. "When I'm 50 or 60 years old I know my body is going to be breaking down, and Mitt Romney doesn't care about that."
The video is cleverly spliced, and directly after Hayes makes that statement, the scene cuts to Romney speaking at a private fundraising event.
"And so my job is not to worry about these people," is the only statement that was shown.
The full statement reads as follows:
"[They] will vote for the president no matter what. All right, there are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to healthcare, to food, to housing, to you-name-it. That that's an entitlement. And the government should give it to them. And they will vote for this president no matter what … These are people who pay no income tax."
"[M]y job is is not to worry about those people. I'll never convince them they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives," Romney concluded, later claiming that the words were "not elegantly stated."
Romney's campaign has attacked the ads, stating that they are not truthful.
"It's not surprising that a liberal special interest group is trying to distract from President Obama's failed agenda with dishonest political attacks," Romney campaign spokesman Ryan Williams said in a statement to Yahoo News. "President Obama has consistently sided with union bosses over middle class workers by supporting big government policies that have killed jobs, pushing for disastrous card check legislation that would take away the right to a secret ballot in the workplace, and stacking the National Labor Relations Board with their political cronies."
