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.
That’s comparing apples and oranges.
Stop being such a naif. You nether know nor understand anything at all about politics and your posts aren’t worth a bucket of warm spit. And you won’t know what that last bit means either. LOL
So long as I don’t see Rick Wilson affiliated with Cruz, I’m cool.
Thanks for the post. That suicide has still left MO GOP hurt and divided. Knowing Roe, it all makes more sense now. His involvement, not John Hancock’s, was the more likely motivator.
Ahhhhhhhhh...bit Lee was better and NOT as vile. Roe is a hack and a bad one, with only a small bag of DIRTY TRICKS.
Really? I am immediately suspicious of an article in New Republic. There is a reason it is there.
More Alinsky tactics.
Call your enemy what you are.
In a way...voting for Ted IS “voting for his father”, who has been telling Ted that he is an anointed “king” for years.
Donald Trump is a draft dodger.
He wants government takeover of healthcare.
He used his $$$ influence to try to get an old widow kicked out of her house by imminent domain.
He supports MANY liberals with his donations.
He is a foul mouthed reprobate.
SO HE IS THE PERFECT CANDIDATE FOR YOU.
Exactly so and a damned good thing that Trump has Lee Atwater’s proteges working on his team.
Read the thread. It’s all been covered.
No need to complain, this guy Roe is getting the job done for Cruz, don’t you think?.
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These kind eventually crash. He better watch himself around Trump. He came close with the number he played on Carson. If he tries something like that on Trump he and his boss will both be taken down.
He used his $$$ influence to try to get an old widow kicked out of her house by imminent domain.
Imminent??
That time you embarrassed yourself while being a bot.
LOL.
Thank you. I thought Bangladesh was a city in India......what do I know? Not much. :-)
but wasn’t it immenent eminent domain?? lol
Kind of like the lawyer you need when going against the department of injustice. Have faith in Cruz’s standards and he is the boss.
Read the good piece explaining the depth of Cruz’s knowledge of the constitution being beyond the common man (and me) so I will trust him, in his standards and his wisdom.
What About Ted Cruz?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3395118/posts
Lee Aywater repented of his ways later in his life
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