In what has become some real­ly inter­est­ing stuff it appears that once again anoth­er false sto­ry has sur­faced that tends to insult most of Amer­i­c­as intel­li­gence.

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Steelworker Featured at DNC Didn’t Work for Bain

The Demo­c­ra­t­ic Nation­al Con­ven­tion on Wednes­day fea­tured three speak­ers billed as “for­mer employ­ees of com­pa­nies con­trolled by Bain Cap­i­tal.”

They each told com­pelling sto­ries about jobs lost, alleged­ly because of the actions of Bain under Romney’s lead­er­ship.

But it turns out one of those employ­ees nev­er actu­al­ly worked for a com­pa­ny con­trolled by Bain Cap­i­tal.

David Fos­ter was sup­pos­ed­ly one of those for­mer employ­ees on the con­ven­tion sched­ule. He told the sto­ry about 750 steel­work­ers who lost their jobs when the Bain-con­trolled com­pa­ny GST steel filed for bank­rupt­cy in the ear­ly 1990s.

“In 2001, with GST bank­rupt and Rom­ney still CEO of Bain, I stood in front of hun­dreds of steel­work­ers in their 50s and 60s, and retirees in their 70s and 80s, and told them Rom­ney and Bain had bro­ken their promis­es. Jobs, vaca­tion pay, sev­er­ance, health insur­ance and pen­sion ben­e­fits that were promised — they were all gone,” he said

But Fos­ter, accord­ing to a for­mer spokesman for GST Steel, nev­er actu­al­ly worked for the com­pa­ny.

“David Fos­ter was nev­er an employ­ee of GST Steel’s Kansas City plant. He was employed by the Unit­ed Steel­work­ers of Amer­i­ca as their region­al union direc­tor to rep­re­sent GST Steel, but was not employed at our facil­i­ty,” accord­ing to BC Husel­ton, who was head of HR at GST.

Instead, Fos­ter was a union orga­niz­er, who nego­ti­at­ed for work­ers that did work for the com­pa­ny.