On the afternoon of Aug. 13, Dick Armey huddled in a conference room with colleagues from the government affairs practice at DLA Piper. All week, tensions over the former House majority leader’s extracurricular political activities had been building. Armey was becoming the face of the opposition to the president’s health care plan. And although his efforts were being conducted through FreedomWorks, the conservative advocacy group he chairs, DLA Piper’s name was popping up — unfavorably — in the blogosphere and in mainstream news coverage.
The conference room, deep in the firm’s Washington office, is just the kind of place for a frank talk. It’s private and windowless. On the walls are a pair of bipartisan campaign mementos: a Hillary Clinton poster and a signed photo of John McCain and Sarah Palin. A newspaper clipping taped near the door shows a photo of Armey, probably having a better day.
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