and Tyler was attacking both Bashir and Coppins
http://www.politico.com/playbook/
JUICY READ DU JOUR – “Inside The Meltdown At America’s Most Conservative, Most Christian Political Consulting Firm: Rex Elsass build a Republican empire on his faith. But he found himself battling his closest allies over his immortal soul,” by BuzzFeed’s McKay Coppins in Delaware, Ohio: “This is the headquarters of the largest, most combative, and perhaps most controversial band of messaging warriors in Republican politics. … Strategy Group for Media [which advised Todd Akin] has spent more than a decade developing a slashing formula for turning the party’s right-wing rejects into members of Congress. Now there are at least 40 Republicans in Congress who have worked with the Strategy Group, which serves as a campaign and strategy clearing house for the uncompromisingly conservative wing of the congressional caucus that has been at the center of American politics since 2010. … Elsass is a round, loud, cigar-smoking good ol’ boy with a private jet; a worldview rooted, he’ll be quick to tell you, in his Christian faith; and a shameless killer instinct that has turned his company into one of the country’s most in-demand political consulting firms.
“The company had the rare distinction of working, serially, for two presidential candidates last year — Michele Bachmann then Newt Gingrich. Other clients include the great Right hopes of 2016: Senators Rand Paul and Ted Cruz. One of the driving forces behind the conservative surge of 2010, when they had more than two dozen tea party clients, the Strategy Group stands poised to ride a similar wave in the upcoming elections. … Rick Tyler, … after serving as Newt Gingrich’s right hand, was hired to replace [Nick] Everhart as the Strategy Group’s president. …
“Strategy Group contracts eschew a standard bonus structure in favor of Elsass doling out pricey perks whenever and however he sees fit. For many of his managers, he buys Bentleys, covers down payments for expensive houses, and even assists with monthly mortgage payments. If a manager quits — or, worse, is deemed to have crossed the boss and gets fired — he can be left jobless, carless, and homeless. And since Elsass tends to recruit young men right out of college and keep them cloistered in a Columbus-based shop that looks upon the rest of the industry with transparent disdain.” http://bit.ly/11oWYGV
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