The secret GOP tech summit to plot 2016

The Republican Party’s top operatives -- including strategists representing the Koch brothers’ political operation and several leading prospective 2016 presidential candidates -- huddled behind closed doors to discuss how to synchronize their sometimes competing tech efforts.

The all-day meeting attracted about 40 of the right’s biggest names in tech and strategy -- including Koch operatives Michael Palmer and Marc Short, leading strategists from many of the major super PACs and all of the party committees, as well as close allies of Jeb Bush, Sen Ted Cruz (R-TX), Gov Rick Perry (R-TX) and Gov Scott Walker (R-WI). The session was at least partly intended to quash a rivalry simmering in the right’s tech ranks. Some party operatives worry that the competition between would be data-wizards could emerge as a problem for Republicans, since Democrats under President Barack Obama have coordinated their technology efforts relatively closely.