article_snippet: A political operative has sued presidential campaign adviser David Axelrod over Axelrod's claim that Axelrod came up with the attack strategy that saved an embattled Philadelphia mayor in 2003.
article_snippet: Shawn Fordham, Mayor Street's 2003 campaign manager, submitted a statement with the suit saying that Axelrod eventually 'got on board' and called Keel a 'hero.'
article_snippet: Axelrod served as President Barack Obama's chief campaign strategist in 2008 and 2012.
article_snippet: Now the founding director of the Institute of Politics at the University of Chicago, Axelrod cut Axelrod political teeth at age 27 as a city hall correspondent and columnist at the Chicago Tribune.
article_snippet: Three years later Axelrod jumped to politics with a communications director job for sitting U.S. Senator Paul Simon.
article_snippet: In addition to the Street campaign, Axelrod later managed the re-election campaign of Harold Washington, Chicago's first black mayor, Axelrod later worked for then-Senator John Edwards' 2004 presidential campaign and latched on to Obama's 2008 effort.
article_snippet: Ultimately Axelrod became one of the president's most senior advisers before departing the White House in 2011.
article_snippet: Axelrod career has also included political consulting for liberal candidates in Canada and Italy. '
article_snippet: This year Axelrod's consulting with Britain's Labour Party in advance of May 7 elections.
article_snippet: Britain's Labour Party has said Axelrod is being paid a 'six-figure salary' for Axelrod advice, and that Axelrod is working with Douglas Alexander, Labour’s shadow foreign secretary – largely via telephone conference calls.
article_snippet: That's how Obama remembers it, Axelrod wrote. '
article_snippet: Separately, Axelrod made news in February with a speech at the University of Chicago Institute of Politics by claiming that the Obama presidency has seen 'six years in which there hasn’t been a major scandal.'
article_snippet: That claim drew a mix of applause and laughter from Axelrod audience.
highlights_snippet: Axelrod took credit in Axelrod memoir for a plan blaming GOP dirty-tricksters for a listening device the FBI planted in a Philadelphia mayor's office as part of a criminal probe .
  
highlights_snippet: But another Democratic operative claims it was all Axelrod idea
highlights_snippet: Axelrod has a long career in Democratic politics and landed a six-figure consulting contract with Britain's Labour Party during this year's elections .