Jeff Roe

Jeff Roe (born September 25, 1970) is an American political consultant and strategist for the Republican Party.

He is the founder and principal of Axiom Strategies, a political consulting firm based in Kansas City, Missouri, with twelve offices in eight states.

He formerly served as a chief of staff, campaign manager, and longtime aide for United States Representative Sam Graves.

Known for his aggressive campaign techniques, Roe has earned a reputation as a "bare-knuckle" political operative who "plays to win."

Roe has been called "the next Karl Rove".

His political consulting firm, Axiom Strategies, has won over 50 "Pollie" & Reed awards on its way to an "81% win rate".

Roe has consulted for a variety of local, state, and federal political campaigns including the presidential campaigns of Mike Huckabee, Rick Perry and Ted Cruz.

He served in a 155 mm Howitzer Unit in South Korea, leaving the military in 1994.

He graduated from Northwest Missouri State University in 1994 where he wrote conservative columns for his college's newspaper.

Roe is an avid baseball fan.

Roe's political career began in 1994, working for then-Missouri State Representative Sam Graves.

Following Graves' election to the Missouri State Senate in 1994 and then the United States Congress in 2000, Roe became Graves' Chief of Staff.

Roe then got involved in campaign management.

During his early political career, he worked part time as a professional baseball umpire, eventually progressing to Division I in 1997 before

leaving to pursue campaigns and politics full time.

He currently lives with his wife and three children in Houston, Texas.

One of his early forays included work that saw the Missouri Republican Party win a majority position in the Missouri General Assembly in 2002, for the first time in fifty years.

These include passing particularly passing Jackson County's bond initiative in 2006 to renovate the Arrowhead and Kaufman stadiums, financing the Raiders stadium in Las Vegas in 2016, and the enactment of Proposition B in Missouri in 2010 to reform puppy mill regulations.

Roe is a native of Brookfield, Missouri.

He grew up on his family's farm, which grew corn and soybean, and raised hogs and cattle.

When asked how his upbringing prepared him for a career in politics, Roe said "hog farms are a lot cleaner."

Roe credits his grandmother

- president of her local Republican women's group – with causing him to develop his interest in politics.

Roe earned the rank of Eagle Scout at age 15 and joined the Army National Guard at age 17.

Subsequently, in 2006, Roe founded Axiom Strategies, a Republican campaign consulting firm.

In 2006, Congressman Sam Graves' brother Todd Graves was wrongfully dismissed from his position as a U.S. Attorney.

It was discovered that Todd Graves' firing was retaliation from Senator Kit Bond's office over Sam Graves' refusal to fire Roe.

By 2008, Axiom Strategies had grown into a multimillion-dollar-a-year

company.

Roe and Axiom Strategies became involved with presidential politics for the first time when the firm managed grassroots outreach for Mike Huckabee's 2008 presidential campaign.

His staff grew from eight people in 2008 to seventeen by 2011.

Roe and his consulting firm widened their national footprint in 2010, contributing to the election efforts of Congressmen Allen West (FL-22), Rick Crawford (AR-1), Kevin Yoder (KS-3), Blaine Luetkemeyer (MO-9), Sam Graves (MO-6), Billy Long (MO-7), Chuck Fleischmann (TN-3), Jo Ann Emerson (MO-8) and Senators Roy Blunt (MO), Jerry Moran (KS) and John Boozman (AR).

Roe also counted a number of high-profile losing clients the same year, including Wink Harman, Jim Barnett, Bill Stouffer, and Van Tran.

In 2011, The Kansas City Star wrote that Roe had "evolved into a mainstream player," citing his work to pass a Kansas City sales tax increase to create a nicer home for wild animals at the Kansas City Zoo.

Democratic campaign consultant Steve Glorioso said Roe's work on behalf of the zoo tax increase "raised Roe's stature with the civic community" and that Roe's opponents "probably discovered his horns have smooth, not sharp, edges."

Roe was the senior strategist and campaign manager for Cruz's 2016 presidential bid.

Roe has also advised numerous members of Congress, U.S. Senate, governors and other statewide candidates including Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy and House Majority Leader Steve Scalise.

Roe has served as a strategist for the Club for Growth on various issue and candidate campaigns.

This includes U.S. Senator Josh Hawley's 2018 victory against Democratic incumbent Claire McCaskill.

Additionally, he has worked on numerous ballot measures and issue campaigns.