Subject: Cruz campaign manager flashes ‘Cruz 2016’ sign on ESPN - POLITICO
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Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2016 04:41:18 -0700

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Cruz campaign manager flashes ‘Cruz 2016’ sign on ESPN

Ted Cruz’s campaign manager Jeff Roe held a "Cruz 2016” sign. This picture is a stock image of a Ted Cruz campaign sign. | AP

Cruz campaign manager flashes ‘Cruz 2016’ sign on ESPN

Ted Cruz’s campaign manager Jeff Roe took the pursuit of earned media to a new level on Sunday night, sitting right behind home plate for ESPN’s nationally broadcast Houston Astros game while holding a "Cruz 2016” sign.

Roe’s third-row seats put him right in ESPN’s camera shot just as news of the new alliance<http://www.politico.com/blogs/2016-gop-primary-live-updates-and-results/2016/04/ted-cruz-john-kasich-team-up-222377> between Cruz and John Kasich rippled across the political world. Roe is an avid baseball fan and a former aspiring umpire and appeared to be seated next to senior Cruz adviser David Polyansky, who also held the Cruz sign at different moments.

The game, between the Astros and the Boston Red Sox, was played in Houston, the home of Cruz’s campaign headquarters.

Roe’s decision to sit behind home plate for ESPN’s Sunday Night Baseball broadcast came only days after Cruz himself had ripped the cable network for terminating the contract of commentator Curt Schilling over a controversial Facebook post on transgender bathrooms.

“ESPN fired Curt Schilling for making the rather obvious point that we shouldn’t allow grown male adult strangers alone in a bathroom with little girls,” Cruz said on the radio show of surrogate Glenn Beck<http://www.politico.com/blogs/2016-gop-primary-live-updates-and-results/2016/04/ted-cruz-curt-schilling-222263>.

The Astros, down 5-3 entering the 9th inning, tied the game on a dramatic home run by Colby Rasmus. But Roe missed it. He had left his seats before the game ended.

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