Ted Cruz, advisers collide over high-stakes GOP primary

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SOURCE: POLITICO

URL: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/07/huelskamp-kansas-ted-cruz-kansas-primary-226236

By Alex Isenstadt


Ted Cruz isn’t just colliding with Donald Trump since the Republican convention. He’s also at odds with some of his own advisers.

At issue: a high-profile primary challenge to Kansas Rep. Tim Huelskamp, a Cruz ally and tea party favorite who has long been a thorn in the side of the party establishment. Cruz has rushed to Huelskamp’s aid, providing him with a valuable endorsement just weeks before the Aug. 2 primary. But members of the Texas senator’s political team are working aggressively to defeat the embattled congressman.

Two of the pillars of Cruz’s political operation, the consulting firms Axiom Strategies and Wilson Perkins Allen Opinion Research, have helped steer a super PAC that is spending heavily to defeat Huelskamp, a member of the conservative, Cruz-friendly House Freedom Caucus — even though Jeff Roe, Cruz’s former campaign manager and Axiom’s top strategist, had previously pledged that he and his firm wouldn’t oppose Huelskamp.

It’s an unusual turn of events. When a prominent politician makes an endorsement, their political apparatus typically follows suit. Roe’s role is particularly surprising. In December, Roe, a Kansas City-based strategist who is Cruz’s closest political adviser, wrote a letter to Huelskamp vowing that neither he nor anyone working at Axiom would join any effort to unseat him in 2016. (Two years earlier, Roe had worked for a super PAC that targeted Huelskamp – an unsuccessful effort that left the congressman steaming.)

Yet, Roe’s firm has had a hand in planning the current anti-Huelskamp campaign, working alongside the super PAC ESAFund, according to recent emails obtained by POLITICO.

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[catfish1957]

Easy....

Jeff Roe, and others were hired hands on the Cruz POTUS primary team.  Team has disbanded, and moved on to other jobs.

Sometimes I think ideological loyalties are over hyped.

[geronl]

The author is a moron.

the consulting firms Axiom Strategies and Wilson Perkins Allen Opinion Research

These are consulting firms, not advisers. They work on any and all campaigns that hire them.

The title is a lie;

[libertybele]

Easy....

Jeff Roe, and others were hired hands on the Cruz POTUS primary team.  Team has disbanded, and moved on to other jobs.

Sometimes I think ideological loyalties are over hyped.

Yes, obviously people move on ... however, they are going up against TEA.  Not good at all.

[Timber Rattler]

Easy....

Jeff Roe, and others were hired hands on the Cruz POTUS primary team.  Team has disbanded, and moved on to other jobs.

Sometimes I think ideological loyalties are over hyped.

Yep, hired guns moving on to their next client.