photo by Keith Myers kmyers@kcstar.com
Posted on 02/11/2016 12:18:01 PM PST by smoothsailing
February 11, 2016
photo by Keith Myers kmyers@kcstar.com
“piece of sh*t”, a “creep”, “no ethics”, “soul-less” … among a plethora of other pejoratives.
Let's examine the man behind Ted Cruz's campaign.
In a 2010 congressional race, Jeff Roe managed Billy Long's campaign against Scott Eckersley. (source)
A HOAX e-mail sent to news media outlets, and a "tweet" issued by a fake Twitter account, announced that Eckersley had suspended his campaign due to personal reasons. Eckersley blames his opponent, Republican Billy Long, for sending out the hoax days before the election.
"You know this is dirty politics. This is Jeff Roe-style management."
(Does the Jeff Roe playbook sound familiar?)
From MissouriNet
Roe has routinely battled Democrats. In 2006 he mauled Democrat Sara Jo Shettles' campaign for Missouri's 6th District House seat, held by U.S. Rep. Sam Graves. A Roe-produced ad linked Shettles with "smut" because she sold ads for a company that published an adult magazine.
Shettles had nothing to do with the adult publication, and she remains bitter about her experience with Roe.
"It’s a game to him," she said. "He's done rotten things to people with long-lasting impact."
From KansasCity.com
In 2008, Roe demolished former Kansas City mayor Kay Barnes' congressional campaign against Graves by linking her with the "San Francisco values" of Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
(Jeff Roe playbook sound familiar?)
Roe once ordered aides to comb through opponents' trash, looking for campaign fodder. He hired operatives to track candidates with video cameras, leading some to complain of unnecessary provocation and to file complaints with police. Roe has long defended such tactics.
"These are not prom-queen elections," he said in 2007. "Who's elected, what their values are, all that determines the direction of the nation."
In 2005, Roe established Kansas City-based Axiom Strategies, a political consulting and direct-mail firm.
In 2014, at least two GOP candidates for Missouri governor - Catherine Hanaway and Tom Schweich - tried to hire Axiom for their campaigns. Hanaway won the competition.
In February 2015, Roe drafted and aired a radio ad on Hanaway's behalf, comparing Schweich with fictional deputy sheriff Barney Fife. (Audio here)
The radio ad transcript: "Elections have consequences. Tom Schweich, like him? No. Is he a weak candidate for governor? Absolutely, just look at him. He could be easily confused for the deputy sheriff of Mayberry."
"But, more importantly, he can be manipulated. That's why Sen. Claire McCaskill and Pres. Obama enlisted my help to meddle in another Republican primary with Schweich as our pawn. Schweich and McCaskill are tied at the hip. Schweich even gave money to McCaskill's campaign."
"Schweich is an obviously weaker opponent against Democrat Chris Koster. Once Schweich obtains the Republican nomination, we will quickly squash him like a bug that he is and put our candidate, Chris Koster in the governor's mansion."
A few days later after the ad ran Schweich took his own life.
Friends say Schweich's fragile mental state played a major role in that tragedy, and inaccurate claims that Schweich was Jewish concerned the state auditor. But some Schweich associates believe he was particularly worried about Roe - he kept a computer file, friends say, of information he believed damaging to the consultant.
Roe's radio ad, the friends say, played a part in pushing Schweich over the edge.
"The commercial had no factual basis whatsoever. None. Zero," Missouri Sen. Mike Parson, a Republican, said at the time. "It speaks volumes as to how far out of hand things have become, to base attacks on someone's appearance, and to make reference to one being small."
Former U.S. senator Jack Danforth of Missouri, a Republican, called the ad's producers bullies, and he has not changed his mind.
"I meant everybody behind that ad," he said last week, including Roe.
Cruz control
Few of Roe's Missouri friends are surprised at his success with the Cruz campaign. Roe said he "begged" for the job after working for Cruz's 2012 Republican Senate opponent in Texas.
"Our campaign manager is a very, very talented, incredibly effective manager," Senator Cruz told reporters after his Iowa speech.
” (he’s been called “scum of the earth”) “
Well, alrighty then. I guess its “we report, you decide”. You’ll just give us the objective, non-partisan facts and let us reach our own conclusions. Got it.
he’s been called “scum of the earth!!!!”
aaahhh!!!
i was gonna vote for Ted but now i can’t!!!!
are you kidding?
Some of these articles are really hysterical in their desperation.
Come on, no Canadian citizenship stories today?
It’s okay. Trump calls most of the media scum of the earth. Trump’s mostly right on that at least. Lolz
I bet Lee Atwater was called worse.
It’s OK, go ahead and vote for Ted.
No doubt about it.
No need to complain, this guy Roe is getting the job done for Cruz, don’t you think?.
No doubt...
Team Ted lied about Carson dropping out.
It isn’t the first time Jeff Roe has done that, so we know it was deliberate.
Eckersley calls e-mail a hoax, says he’s still in the race (AUDIO)
“You know this is dirty politics. This is Jeff Roe-style management. That’s who Billy’s retained. That’s who he writes the big checks to,” Eckersley tells Missourinet affiliate KTTS. “This is Kansas City management doing what they do best, which is playing dirty.”
http://www.missourinet.com/2010/10/29/eckersley-calls-e-mail-a-hoax-says-hes-still-in-the-race-audio/
It sure fits the Roe MO, hard to believe it wasn’t deliberate.
South Carolina typically is the nastiest state in regards to campaigns. In 2000, Bush sent around reports that McCain had a biracial baby with a black woman when in fact, he and his wife adopted a baby from India.
Keep an eye on Bush.
We are in for a nasty 10 days.
Not from India but Bangladesh.
As a Cruz supporter from early on I expressed concern when he hire Roe. It still seems to be the overkill I expected.
did you know his father fought with Castro?!?!?!
and JFK’s father was a no good bootlegger.
we’re not voting for the parents
The hugh manatee!
Birds of a feather...water seeks its own level, and all that. This speaks VOLUMES about Cruz!
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