Pittsburgh -- In a television ad released today, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) exposes extremist policies of Keith Rothfus, the millionaire attorney running for Pennsylvania's 12th Congressional District seat.

The ad features district voters, some SEIU members, responding to Rothfus' policy positions, which include signing a pledge that protects tax breaks for corporations that ship jobs overseas, and support for Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan's plan to end Medicare as we know it.

"There used to be jobs here, my grandfather worked here my uncles worked here - and now it's nothing. It's a scrap heap," recalls the woman who opens the ad.

Another voter in the ad says that Rothfus should be more concerned with working families than millionaires.

Gabe Morgan, President of the SEIU State Council and Director of SEIU Local 32BJ in Pennsylvania, said Rothfus is out of touch. "Our communities have been devastated by companies that shipped our jobs overseas. Now, Keith Rothfus has signed a pledge to protect tax breaks for these same corporations. We need good jobs here in Pennsylvania."

"Wall Street lawyer Keith Rothfus is a candidate of the 1% of America, the millionaires and billionaires, not the rest of us," said SEIU Local 668 President Kathy Jellison. "With so many struggling, we need leaders in Congress who are going to fight for the middle class, and not tax breaks for the wealthy, corporations, and CEOs."

"Our seniors depend on Medicare. Cutting Medicare is reckless, dangerous, and just flat out wrong," said Neal Bisno, President of SEIU Healthcare Pennsylvania. "Keith Rothfus supports a plan that would turn Medicare into a voucher system, which would cost our seniors thousands. It is clear that he doesn't share Western Pennsylvania's values, and is not one of us."

"Keith Rothfus is for millionaires like himself, and not the middle class," said Jen Miller, a member of SEIU HCPA from Johnstown. "It is clear that he is not fighting for people like us."

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