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Mitt Romney’s Garbageman Sounds Off In New Attack Ad [Video]

Posted: October 2, 2012
Mitt Romney’s Garbageman Sounds Off In New Attack Ad [Video]

Mitt Romney's garbageman, Richard Hayes

A labor union that supports President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign has released an attack ad against GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney, featuring a rather curious talking head: Romney’s own garbageman.

“My name is Richard Hayes, and I pick up Mitt Romney’s trash,” says a sanitation worker who collects the garbage outside of Romney’s multimillion-dollar California mansion. “We’re kind of like the invisible people, you know. He doesn’t realize, you know, that the service we provide, you know, if it wasn’t for us, you know, it would be a big health issue, us not picking up trash.”

Interspersed with short clips of Romney speeches, Hayes talks about how the GOP candidate’s election would harm labor in the US. “Picking up 15, 16 tons by hand, you know that takes a toll on your body,” Hayes continued. “When I’m 55, 60 years old, I know my body’s going to be break down. Mitt Romney doesn’t care about that.”

The head of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees said that the ad is a direct rebuttal to Romney’s controversial “47 percent” remarks covertly taped at a fundraiser and published to the blog Mother Jones. Indeed, a clip from these tapes appears in the attack ad.

“Mitt Romney’s ’47 percent’ videotape revealed his contempt for tens of millions of Americans,” AFSCME President Lee Saunders said in a blog post. “Romney seems only to be relaxed and at ease when he is surrounded by other millionaires and people willing to pay $50,000 to share a meal with him. And it is only those wealthy donors who get to know what is really on his mind. They spend more money than most Americans make in a year to ask Mitt Romney questions and listen to his reckless banter about Americans like Richard Hayes.”

The Romney campaign said it was unsurprised, and unimpressed, by the attack ad. “It’s not surprising that a liberal special interest group is trying to distract from President Obama’s failed agenda with dishonest political attacks,” Spokesman Ryan Williams said in a statement to Yahoo News.

Interestingly, Saunders has stated that AFSCME is completely non-partisan, and that the union does not answer to any political party. Still, he said that “We must work our hearts out to re-elect President Obama,” at the AFSCME’s meeting in June.

Here’s the AFSCME attack ad starring Mitt Romney’s garbageman:



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8 Archived Responses to “ Mitt Romney’s Garbageman Sounds Off In New Attack Ad [Video] ”

  1. DREGstudios! Art & Design
    Oct 2, 2012

    Is there any doubt a Romney administration would favor the rich and increase the income gap in our country? Mitt is a pariah in Mormon Clothing and will stop at nothing to expand an empire of greed for the rich in this country by expanding tax cuts for the 1% of the wealthiest Americans. He’s out to gut the Middle Class for every red cent he can get. Will his sacred Mormon underwear grant him the protection and money to buy this election? See for yourself as Mitt dons his tighty-whities sent down from the Good Lord Himself at http://dregstudiosart.blogspot.com/2012/05/mitt-romneys-magic-mormon-underwear.html.

  2. Kelley Crooks
    Oct 2, 2012

    The guy drives a garbage truck with an automated trash bin pick up arm! It's in the video! These guys just drive around and hit a lever. No 15-16 tons moved by hand at all!

  3. Los Mortales De Publicacion
    Oct 3, 2012

    Mitt “some kind of zombie” disdains the 47% that he writes off, but it's nothing personal. It's about money. As a Mormon, Romney worships mammon. To gain an existential understanding of the cult that produced Mitt “zombie” Romney, and to get your socks scared off, read The Assassination of Spiro Agnew, available in paperback and e-book at:

    http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=The+Assassination+of+Spiro+Agnew”

    Its unwilling, part-Mexican Mormon assassin dramatizes the Mormon superiority complex, manifesting it as racism, sexism, jingoism and an anti-federal government temperament. His research in the new library reveals ominous similarities between Islam and Mormonism. The spiritual power behind the cult, which is not the Holy Ghost, acts out.

    “With a clarity of language and vision unsurpassed in contemporary American prose, Steven Janiszewski's Assassination of Spiro Agnew takes us into a U.S. mazed with madness and Mormonism and all things Utah, a U.S. that was then and still is. Do we need a novel, even as brilliant as this one, about a young man on a divine mission to assassinate the Vice President because he is too liberal? Yes, now more than ever. Readers, welcome to a masterpiece.”.
    Tom Whalen
    http://www.tomwhalen.com

    Read The Assassination of Spiro Agnew.

  4. Katie Harrison
    Oct 3, 2012

    Stupid! THAT GARBAGE MAN GET"S PAID! TO PICK UP OTHERS GARBAGE! HE CHOSE TO HAVE THAT JOB! HE CHOSE TO BE A GARBAGE MAN! IT'S HIS JOB! AT LEAST HE HAS ONE!

  5. Anonymous
    Oct 6, 2012

    Hey Richard, if your worried about your body lose some weight. I was a garbage man for several years and used it as a stepping stone to move up the ladder. I see all sorts of complaining whiners at my work like you every day. Use that bulbous orb under your hat for something besides a food vacuum quit your crying and do something to better yourself , its up to you. I worked hard to move up , you should try using the energy complaining and crying and make your brain into something a business would want to hire , but I'm sure you will always blame somebody else. Good God , be a man. I worked for the same type of rich people you did and sure appreciated the Christmas cards filled with $100 , did you still hate them then? Your an idiot and one of many embarrassments my union AFSCME has to put up with. Shut up and do your job or quit. There are 1000 people ready to apply for your position you ignorant loser.

  6. Ted McCarron
    Oct 6, 2012

    What an unbelievable crock this is! Is there even a chance in hell that Richard (before he took that job) his parents, or Obama himself ran out to thank the garbage men? Not bloody likely! And if Richard's parents never thanked their garbage men (which is 99.99% probable) did he ever condemn them for that? I also wonder if Richard ever tips waitresses or pizza drivers.

  7. George Riley
    Oct 6, 2012

    Gee Ted what makes you think he doesn't tip waitresses or pizza drivers? Can you go through your complicated deductive reasoning as how you came to such a conclusion. Inquiring minds want to know!

  8. Ted McCarron
    Oct 6, 2012

    I said I was wondering if he did, that's all. That's speculation. The other parts are speculation that border on absoulte certainty.