<text>  A political operative has sued presidential campaign adviser David Axelrod over Axelrods claim that he came up with the attack strategy that saved an embattled Philadelphia mayor in 2003. Philadelphia campaign consultant Frank Keel said it was his idea to blame Republicans for an FBI listening device found in Democratic Mayor John Streets office. Keel considers the decision to attack then-President George W. Bushs Republican administration a defining moment of his career, according to his lawsuit. His brazen and successful handling of the crisis launched Keel to the forefront of his profession, said the legal filing, filed earlier this week and first reported on by The Philadelphia Inquirer. In his book Believer: My Forty Years in Politics, Axelrod takes credit for the plan to accuse President George W. Bushs Justice Department of trying to sink Streets re-election bid. David Axelrod, Obamas senior campaign strategist in 2012, is under fire on at least two fronts for claims he made in his new political memoir . WHOSE IDEA WAS IT? Philadelphia Mayor John Street right swept to a re-election victory in 2003 after his campaign aides hatched a plot to blame Republicans for alistening device the FBI planted in his office . The FBI bugged Streets office as part of a pay-to-play probe that led to the indictments of a city treasurer, a top Street fundraiser and 10 others. The mayor himself was never charged and denied wrongdoing. Street had initially been quiet about the bug found in his City Hall office but went on the attack as the campaign claimed that Republicans did it. Weeks later, he won re-election in a landslide. Axelrod, in a statement, said his book does not rule out the possibility that other advisers arrived at the same conclusion or proceeded on parallel tracks. But the lawsuit claims Axelrod was unreachable on the day Keel came up with the strategy and later opposed it. Shawn Fordham, Mayor Streets 2003 campaign manager, submitted a statement with the suit saying that Axelrod eventually got on board and called Keel a hero. Keel also sued Penguin Random House, Axelrods publisher. It dismissed Keels claims as utterly absurd. Axelrod served as President Barack Obamas chief campaign strategist in 2008 and 2012. Now the founding director of the Institute of Politics at the University of Chicago, Axelrod cut his political teeth at age 27 as a city hall correspondent and columnist at the Chicago Tribune. Three years later he jumped to politics with a communications director job for sitting U.S. Senator Paul Simon. Mitt Romneys personal assistant Garrett Jackson right saw and heard everything the GOP candidate said and did during the last presidential race, and he said Axelrod lied about the 2012 Election Night concession call to make the Republican look like a race-obsessed sore loser . In addition to the Street campaign, Axelrod later managed the re-election campaign of Harold Washington, Chicagos first black mayor, He later worked for then-Senator John Edwards 2004 presidential campaign and latched on to Obamas 2008 effort. Ultimately he became one of the presidents most senior advisers before departing the White House in 2011. His career has also included political consulting for liberal candidates in Canada and Italy. Believer: My Forty Years in Politics came out in mid-February and has already brought complaints from two people who say Axelrod lied in the memoir . This year hes consulting with Britains Labour Party in advance of May 7 elections. Labour has said Axelrod is being paid a six-figure salary for his advice, and that he is working with Douglas Alexander, Labours shadow foreign secretary largely via telephone conference calls. The Street case is the second claim that he lied in his memoir. The personal aide of one-time Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney blasted him last month for writing that Romney had claimed President Barack Obamas 2012 election victory was the product of an aggressive get-out-the-vote operation tageting blacks. Garrett Jackson told CBS News that Axelrod told a ridiculous ... lie about a phone call between Obama and Romney on Election Night. The Republican nominee, according to Axelrods account, angered Obama when he called to concede the race saying, You really did a great job of getting the vote out in places like Cleveland and Milwaukee. Thats how Obama remembers it, Axelrod wrote. In other words, black people, his book records the president as saying, Thats what he Romney thinks this was all about. Garrett claimed he was in the room listening to Romneys end of the conversation, and it never happened. 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 hasnt been a major scandal. That claim drew a mix of applause and laughter from his audience. 