Senator Scott Brown is running a television ad that misleadingly cites a Boston Globe story to argue that his Democratic opponent, Elizabeth Warren, fought asbestos victims in a major lawsuit.
While there were victims who opposed Warren’s arguments, the story reported that the attorneys who represented most of the victims were on Warren’s side in the case, which went to the Supreme Court.
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All of the ads from the empty suit related to Ms. Warren have been misleading and distorted cut and paste jobs.
Knowing Brown, his campaign will double down and run the ad twice as often now.
The Globe has written a helpful article to expose Scott Brown's cruel duplicity. There is also a part of this story that needs more emphasis. Elizabeth Warren's role was to devise a mechanism to compensate victims in the present and the future. Asbestos does its dirty work silently over years but once evident it imposes a great burden on the patient who will not survive and on their family. For sure the insurers followed their own greedy interest but after Elizabeth Warren left the case. To say she could have forseen such a reversal of her work is a kind of conspiracy mindset that is characteristic of Republican politics these days. Scott Brown, as Elizabeth Warren's ad states, should be ashamed, deeply ashamed. Unfortunately he won't be. His political ambitions trump decency.
Present and future seniors would be subjected to 1000's of dollars/year in added Medicaire expenses.Medicaid would be destroyed.They want to privitize Soc Sec,defund and eliminate Planned Parenthood,raise taxes on the middle class while lowering taxes on the wealthy,further deregulate corps.Forget consumer protection. All of this is,of course,very unpalatable-so what do they do-lie and deceive voters. Brown has been appealing to donors around the US to support him so that the Senate can be majority Repub.His claim of bipartisanship has no credibility-so he's attempting this slander. The Globe is doing its job by telling us the truth.