Cindy Hewitt says she didn't know much of anything about Mitt Romney until a few months ago, but now she's determined to let people know what happened to her when Romney's private equity firm took over the company where she used to work, and why she thinks it's outlandish that he's campaigning as a job creator.
Hewitt worked at Dade Behring, the Miami-based medical-equipment company that Romney invested in as head of Bain Capital in the late 1990s — an investment which ultimately led 850 people to lose their jobs in Miami, and just as many at the company's other plants before Dade Behring ultimately went into bankruptcy.
Hewitt and Randy Johnson, another former employee of a company affected negatively by Bain Capital under Romney, told their stories to a handful of reporters in Tampa on Sunday at a news conference set up by the Democratic National Committee.
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