(from factcheck.org)

Sen. Specter attacks former House Republican Leader Armey as “just another paid
lobbyist spreading disinformation” about his asbestos bill. Neither is telling the real story.

In ads run in several states, former House Republican Leader Dick Armey attacks a
bipartisan bill sponsored by Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA) and others to reform the mess created by asbestos litigation.

Armey calls the bill “a new threat to your pocketbook,” which it isn’t. And he suggests that the bill is a giveaway to trial lawyers, when the opposite is true.

Specter counter-attacked with a New York Times opinion piece suggesting that he wasn’t proposing a new tax, though in fact he is.

Specter was closer to the mark when he called Armey “just another paid lobbyist spreading disinformation.” Armey’s lobbying firm received $920,000 last year from a British insurance company that was opposing parts of Specter’s bill. In the ads, Armey was speaking as the president of a nonprofit advocacy group, FreedomWorks, formed last year in a merger between the Republican-leaning, free-enterprise groups Citizens for a Sound Economy and Empower America.

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