I couldnt talk to the media, and they didnt lift a finger to defend me.. In her book, Smith also called another client she worked for,ex-Gov. [26][27][28] Philip Elliott of Time praised its transparency and wrote that it "may just rewrite the template for what a political memoir can be. The great media disruption comes for the Des Moines Register. So many flacks lose their mind over inconsequential things, and have no sense of, This is good press, this is mediocre press, and this is awful press. That is something you know once you have been through awful press., As a flack, you dont always understand what it feels like to be a principal, what it feels like to be under scrutiny. Shes a Black half-South-Indian woman. Weve got that Joey Burrow swag, but he does have humility to him. Smith a Bengals fan believes quarterback Joe Burrow is a great leader with a clear social conscience, and she wouldnt rule out the possibility of him having a political career. Its a local-politics mentality to find the people that are going to be telling this story, and if nothing else, making sure they have a real understanding of who you are. Smith: I think a lot of people get a very one-dimensional view of me. When I was starting in politics, we didnt have women. Yeah, I guess Id fallen in love with slightly problematic guy It wasnt like I was dating Ted BundyEliot was the former governor and attorney general of New York State, Smith said, referring to the serial killer. I think that she gets a lot of unfair criticism. You deploy the F-bomb like Picasso used drypoint. It wasnt really until 2012 when I worked for Barack Obama that I did find a really strong female mentor in Stephanie Cutter and I learned so much about my job, so much about politics, so much about how to effectively communicate from Stephanie Cutter. With Bill de Blasio, that was a different situation. Wren: What do you look for in a candidate? The whole saga also taught her the rhythms of the New York tabloids, which have similarities to the national political press. Smith, standing behind Buttigieg as he campaigns at various events in New York this April. Not possible, Smith says. That was my philosophy. From the second I met Pete, I knew that there was something special about him. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Thanks for contacting us. Running for politics theres got to be a little element of narcissism or whatever you want to call it in you. I fucking love John McCain. And no, politics is my love. Smith: Joey Burrow is an incredible leader. As someone who was a mayor who was on the ground, who knows how important this stuff is, hes a great messenger to send out there to these smaller media markets everywhere, where he can meet with the mayors, speak to them in their language, help make sure that theyre getting the resources they need. [31][32], Smith is also known for her commentary and analysis of United States politics. The candidate and the campaign manager dutifully board the aircraft, and just when it seems the door is about to close, as they start looking around nervously, in comes Smith, sunglasses and coat still on, laptop and cords dangling from her arms, phone pressed against her ear. In my book, I sort of get at this, but we are sort of an odd couple. Wren: Much has been made about Trump Derangement Syndrome this idea that, true or not, he scrambles rational political responses from otherwise reasonable people. It is my passion. Political strategist Lis Smith isnt a married woman, though she may one day decide to tie the knot with a lucky somebody. Bill de Blasio, too. 8,310 Followers, 856 Following, 219 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Lis Smith (@lis__smith) Keep in mind she was 22 at the time, Smith said. He didnt feel the need to go out there and be the coolest guy or the hippest guy on stage. I should know: Last October, I had my own intimate, off-the-record encounter with Mayor Pete. Lis Smith, Buttigieg's top communications adviser . Thats a pretty ballsy thing to do. And its something that forever Ill be thankful to him for. She ran it like he was trying to be president, getting him in front of as many microphones as she could. I had that early rush of love on the brainI wasnt thinking clearly. Im just going to leave it there because I thought it was funny. They are already well-known.. Its about getting to know people and them getting to know you, Buttigieg says when I see him after the Brooklyn fundraiser, where he at least pretends to recall our earlier meeting and what we talked about. Eliot Spitzer while working for incoming Mayor Bill de Blasio. Its a role that clearly lends itself to his skill set. Oftentimes its not going to be found in Washington, D.C. "[30] Some critics felt that it minimized her role in discrediting the sexual assault allegations against Cuomo. Lets just blow it out. Political strategist Lis Smith reveals in her new book how The Post exposed that she was dating prostitution-loving former Gov. Does something like Buttigieg Derangement Syndrome exist? What is Lis Smiths secret sauce? But another thing is that Im not someone whos just worked in New York. Whats especially important to me, is, you know, making sure to take a lot of young women under my wing. The actress who is the daughter of the late Lisa Marie Presley and musician Danny Keough met. [44] Smith plays the violin.[44]. Honesty is really, really important to handling a crisis because you have to have all the facts at your disposal. But Joe Biden is president today, and Kamala Harris is his vice president. Photo: amyandstuart.com@AmyandStuart. Wren: Theres a part of Pete that is a little wonky, a little square. At that point, reporters she had developed relationships with began to reach out, wondering what she was doing wasting her credibility on a little-known character who seemed like a step down the ladder of political prospects. Lis Smith on Pete Buttigieg's campaign bus during a. [The vice presidency] is probably the toughest, most thankless job in Washington D.C. The obvious thing to do would have been to take on high-paying, quieter corporate gigs, or to reenter politics with someone truly high profile. Although Smith and Spitzer attempted to keep the affair under wraps, a photographer for the New York Post spotted the pair at her SoHo walkup apartment, exchanging loving looks.. Wren: Youre often credited with vaulting Pete from the mayor of Indianas fourth-largest city to a member of Bidens cabinet. [43], Smith says she experiences stage fright. Politics has a bias toward the status quo, she says. Smith plotted the rollout of Pete Buttigiegs longshot presidential campaign. I thought you had cancer or something. He motioned to the bartender again`Well take two shots of Jameson on top of that roundbefore turning back to me and clearing his throat. He was a once-in-a-generation talent, someone who perfectly met the moment, says Smith. After the fundraiser, Buttigieg is going to rush off to 30 Rock to do Maddow, then in the morning New Day on CNN, and then fly to Iowa, then do Morning Joe when hes back. I lost the media war thatId thought I commanded, Smith said. It has been my passion since I was nine years old, which sounds sick. And what Pete understood, and why I believed in him, was that to beat Trump, we didnt need to be him. I think hes a really good person. Other candidates, they dont need to do it. After news broke on the relationship, more photos were released, and Smith was eventually forced to come clean to fellow campaign members about the love match she had formed with Spitzer. He was attempting a comeback by running for the modest job of New York City comptroller, and when the vote came in, he pulled in a respectable 48 percent, even though the entire citys political establishment was against him. By signing up you agree to receive email newsletters or updates from POLITICO and you agree to our privacy policy and terms of service. She had an "itch," the political consultant writes in her. The New York Post is looking into you and Eliot, Smith wrote, adding, Well, fk. Smith starts texting me, wanting to know if Id seen the celebrities in the audience, including George Takei, Kal Penn and Kate McKinnon. (For the record, I can totally envision him sitting on the floor singing Kumbaya just not for me. Regular voters and the media were primed for it.. On Sunday, Bill de Blasio put out a statement in a New York Post story in his own name defending himself against the portrait you paint of him in your book as obsessively paranoid. If you were working for him, and a book like yours came out authored by someone else, how would you have advised him to address the situation? I think we saw that Kamalas attack on Biden was obviously was pretty pointed. The New York tabs may have sharpened her game, but people who've known her for years say Smith came ready for the fight. He had stayed behind in an area where there was active conflict while she travelled on by herself. But until they released him from the NDA, we just didnt get his clients. Miller is darkly. They are doing things that are more directly relevant to peoples lives. And you are going to pay me to be really quick and really aggressive and to take on Mitt Romney? Adam Wren: In the beginning, you scored the contract for this book based on your high-profile turn as a senior communications adviser to Pete Buttigieg. [2][11], She was the deputy campaign manager for the Martin O'Malley 2016 presidential campaign. It is, she says, the only newspaper she subscribes to. Market Realist is a registered trademark. As voters look for someone who can beat Trump, the fact that the press corps appears to vouch for this curious character, a young liberal red-state mayor, means that voters can give him a second look too. Smith is 31; a Dartmouth graduate who apparently has a thing for bad boys. Petes hitting at this moment in part because of the legwork they did. [7] As communications director for the DGA, she oversaw gubernatorial campaign efforts in Kentucky and West Virginia. Smith ended up dropping most of her other clients, politicians and nonprofits alike. Before a debate, you have no idea how much gossip is going around. He weighed in after the Supreme Court decision. George Bush had Karl Rove; Bill Clinton had James Carville. While her work history list might be lengthy, her dating track record isnt very long. Then, in an instant, everything changed, Smith writes in her tell-all, Any Given Tuesday., It came in the form of a text from [fellow consultant] Hari [Sevugan]: `Call me. She was also communications director for Dan Seals' 2008 Illinois House race. It was by no means an obvious career move for Smith. How much of his success was because of you, and how much was because of him? So what I try to do is to meet candidates where they are, and to help work with them on what their strengths are and not to erase the things in them that are quirky or not, but see if we can use them as assets. Wren: How is the Lis Smith depicted in this book different from the Lis Smith in the popular political imagination? Smith: We check in here and there. Deciding to get into politics for me, and in the world of political operatives, was like jumping off a cliff. Why would a Pete Buttigieg hire me? And although Smith would never say it, it plays on political reporters' narcissism, too. . Candidates and the people around them can get so spun up about things, and when you get spun up you make the worst mistakes, she says. And you just like have this moment, where youre like, Maybe this is it. She became obsessed with the idea of working for him, then became further obsessed when she actually met him, and developed the notion that once people got to meet him they would start to like him. John Edwards comes to mind. Tim Miller, my friend, wrote a great book weeks ago, where he talks about the danger of getting sucked up in the game. Smith: I think Ive got good relationships with people in the media. Otherwise, I would kill myself. Which is to say that Buttigieg may know seven languages and carry around Ulysses and sit in with the South Bend Orchestra on piano, but as far as his top aide is concerned, it is only because he has an extra year on her. [1], Smith was born to lawyers Thomas, cousin of Senator Sam Ervin, and Adrienne Smith and was raised in Bronxville, New York, along with her twin brother Angus, and older siblings Ashley and Toby. It was as horrible as Id anticipated and seeing the photos of Eliot and me taken in what wed thought were private moments was even more disturbing, knowing they were on display to anyone who cared to look, she writes in the 304-page tome. So it was just sort of the perfect confluence of all these things where that yin and yang dynamic got us together. All Rights Reserved. In a chapter entitled The Eye of the Storm, she recalled how her parents who reside in Westchester were shockedwhen photographers and scribes were camped outside their home when Spitzer joined them for Christmas dinner. In 2001, she graduated Bronxville High School. A photo and audio tour of the hosts driving the conversation. Wren: He rehabilitated you and taught you to love the political process again. . He looked white as a ghost, didnt say anything, just nodding along. Wren: Could see a political career for him? Lis Smith is recording this call. Yeah. Lis has absolutely no fear, said Jeff Smith, a former Missouri lawmaker who dated Smith for four years and considers her one of his closest friends. It was from Montego Bay that Smith and de Blasio announced she would not be joining his administration. Our resort was more Leave It to Beaver than Debbie Does Dallas,' she claimed. In real life, I have a really close-knit family. Eliot Spitzer]. I romanticize it. Okay, so Im working for tabloid target #1 in Bill de Blasio. 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Disgraced former New York governor Eliot Spitzer, 54, and his new girlfriend Lis Smith, 31, may have enjoyed a relaxing family Christmas, but their cosy domesticity could soon be upset after it . But I understand that what I do isnt just a game. She did, however, date a married man while serving as a campaign aide to former New York Mayor Bill de Blasio. Smith: One of the things Ive learned over my time in politics is that youve got to let your candidates be themselves. But it was one of those moments where I had to go with my gut. The way Smith tells it, she thought she was done with presidential politics after OMalleys campaign fizzled in 2016. Chill., Lis, I guess you could say, comes from a very different world than Northern Indiana., Lis Smith bursts through the doors of a marbled hotel bar in Brooklyn wearing oversized Anna Wintour sunglasses, a faux-fur-lined coat and impossibly thin and tall high heels. The good candidates have humility. It will hopefully make the cost of prescription drugs go down, or cut the price of insulin. She most recently worked as a senior advisor in communications to presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg. And yet you signed on anyway. I cant believe you didnt know that! Wren: Based on how you characterized the vice presidency, would you ever counsel the transportation secretary, regardless of what year it is, against taking the vice presidency? It may look like the sky is falling, but just ride this out.. Eliot Spitzer's girlfriend Lis Smith, 31, has not been asked to take up a position in New York mayor Bill de Blasio's new City Hall team in the wake of her affair with the disgraced former governor. But I dont know whats inside him. It meant a lot to me as a woman to have someone like that. Jul. This story has been shared 127,012 times. Smith has been exploring the idea of renting a bus, and just as McCain did, inviting reporters aboard to travel and fire away at Buttigieg with any question they want, all day, day after day. In that same vein, I know that there were people in the transportation secretarys inner circle that thought his taking that position wasnt the best idea. I have a really close-knit group of friends who have nothing to do with politics. In a tweet shared on July 20, 2022, Jeff praised Smith for the publication of her insightful book., Talked @Morning_Joe about why I wrote Any Given Tuesday: "More than ever we need people to believe in the political processPolitics is more important than ever. In the past several months, Buttigieg has been not just all over cable and in the newspapers, but in Our Daily Planet, an environmental morning newsletter with just over 5,000 Twitter followers; in a financial planning podcast called Pete the Planner; and on West Wing Weekly, the obsessive episode-by-episode podcast breakdown of The West Wing. The guy didnt have time to say hello before Smith could hear screaming over the line. I see that being taken so far out of context. The bad candidates are people who are insecure, who put their finger in the wind, who dont trust their instincts enough and dont have the backbone to do the right things. If you read through the many, many profiles written of presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg in the past several months, its hard not to notice just how many reporters happen to have had personal encounters with the candidate, often months before he was in the headlines. A lot of people people whose opinion you respect told you that you were nuts when you chose to work for Pete. She puts the word fuck through every part of speech the word can be bent into: noun, pronoun, gerund, verb, term of endearment, sobriquet, epithet, honorific. I dont live and breathe politics every day. TV news executives are calling, she says, emailing, now complaining that Buttigieg isnt doing their shows often enough. AFP via Getty Images She dished about the former mayor's. And then what?, she thought to herself. New transcripts and . Hes someone who is very special to me, and I hope hes always a part of my life. Wren: Fair enough. This is how we stop there from being a day three. She is a talented communicator. This is what day two looks like. Smith tried to outfox The Post by going to the Daily News as a pre-emptive strike in an effort to get a more favorable story planted about her relationship with Spitzer. Democratic Political strategist and former Pete Buttigieg 2020 campaign advisor Lis Smith trashed former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio during a Monday interview with MSNBC host Nicolle. Theres the article in the Atlantic where the writer met the mayor of South Bend, Indiana for a chicken tempura lunch in Manhattan. [16] Business Insider considered her to be one of the 10 most powerful women running the 2020 presidential campaigns. But I appreciate his courage in being willing to speak out about it. She knew Axelrod from 2012, when she worked as director of rapid response for President Barack Obamas reelection effort. I really did feel he treated me as an equal. It felt like we connectedwe went over our allotted time, and I had another beer, and by the end I had shifted from very skeptical to only moderately skeptical, just maybe seeing a lane for his candidacy. He was a once-in-a-generation talent, someone who perfectly met the moment. Pete Buttigieg and his husband Chasten in February 2020. And as you saw on Fox News Sunday, as I went to bed last night, [his clip] has 8 million views. And there was not a better antidote to Trump than Pete in terms of style, in terms of life experience, and in terms of his worldview. She doesnt give a fuck. I know youre asking it in good faith, but I am declining to answer it in good faith. And its going to be really important to have a woman sort of leading the charge on these issues, who is able to really empathize with the despair a lot of women are feeling. But seriously. There were, Smith guesses, probably 150 such meetings with the national press corps, and when he traveled across the country, speaking to local county party dinners and fundraisers across the Midwest and Great Plains, they would make time for one-on-ones with the local political press there, too. On a cornier side, I think because he is such a good person, he made a lot of us better people throughout, because politics can be sort of a nasty business. He did. A Democratic candidate in West Virginia is going to look very different from a Democratic candidate in New York, and we cant impose this one-size-fits-all thing and think that the Democratic Party is going to be a majority party. The problem with a lot of people, not just candidates, but anyone in life who is caught up in a crisis is that they react. [2] In 2014, she became a communication consultant for Adriano Espaillat's congressional campaign. She has a 3-day-old copy of the New York Post in her bag. It was total bullst. He has a clear social consciousness to him that you dont see in a lot of professional athletes. The tabloids followed the pair to Christmas at Smiths parents house in the upscale suburb of Bronxville. How did that manifest itself with Pete, the first candidate youve ever advised who was approximately the same age as you? Neither Eliot nor I was gonna win a gold medal in the not reckless competition at the Olympics. Other people could blame it on naivete, I cant.. The private Terry is a lot more low-key, and lot more humble, a lot more thoughtful. That means that shes held to a different standard than sometimes other candidates. After 20 campaigns flacking for candidates such as Transportation Secretary and former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg, former Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill,. I love him. Wren: You write pretty transparently in the book about times youve been fooled by a candidate. In the car, wed go back and forth on random trivia, and pulling up things on Google. Jason Bergman for POLITICO. [44] She describes herself as an "oyster-tarian," which she defines as a vegetarian who will eat oysters. She had served as a senior aide on OMalleys 2016 bid and with the Maryland governor when he was head of the Democratic Governors Association. She recently appeared on Fox News and is catching the attention of other media outlets to further discuss the juicy details she spilled in her memoir. How has it turned out so far? Published on July 13, 2022 06:12 PM. Even in decline, AM radio matters more than you might think. And you had Democrats out there saying, when they go low, we kick them in the face, and engaging in all this over-the-top rhetoric. So the Post is about to report that Im dating Eliot Spitzer. But is it undermining its own side? Ourmost scandalous transgression was showing up three minutes late to the breakfastbuffet and sweet talking our way into cheese and jalapeo omelets.. Smith said she learned a hard lesson: Even a professional cant try to manage a personal crisis without help. The 54-year-old disgraced ex-governor. You write: Here we go said Larry Grisolano, Petes media consultant, stating the obvious. Can I tell you something very off the record, she texts. He laid out his case for how a millennial municipal official from a town the size of a New York City Council district could somehow seize the Democratic nomination. My advice is just go out there more, communicate more. She dated former Missouri State Sen. Jeff Smith from 2005 to 2009, before he was locked up in a federal pen for obstruction after a probe of the state's 2004 election. Smith-Petersen held a protective arm around Keough's, 33, waist as he supported the actress on her first red carpet since the sudden death of her mother Lisa Marie Presley last month. And if people like it they like it, and if they dont they were probably never going to vote for you anyway.. After O'Malley's campaign, she advised several nonprofit organizations, and incumbent governors such as Montana governor Steve Bullock. Smith, who is a Bronx native, must be an intelligent woman, but going for the "bad boys" might . She wants to know if Id seen Buttigieg answer a question about the Notre Dame fire from a French TV station, in French. Smith: So with John Edwards, I was a college student. Buttigieg has gotten a number of lavish long-form features, so many that some have jokingly wondered whether Smith is getting paid by the profile. Jeff Smith, her former boyfriend, recalls one time when he was running for office, his campaign managers phone rang. We were on the bus in New Hampshire the week we were playing each other and furiously checking our lineups. Buttigieg campaigns in Iowa shortly after officially announcing his bid for the Democratic nomination for president. Also how many, like, mind-games campaigns are playing with others. 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