And although Smith would never say it, it plays on political reporters' narcissism, too. Across the street, Brooklyn hipsters of all ages and manner of facial hair are lining up around the block at a bowling alley/music venue to catch Buttigieg at a fundraiser. Tommy McArdle. We've received your submission. [11][12] In 2018, Smith became spokeswoman for Andrew Cuomo's successful re-election campaign, who had endorsed the political entity. And then what?, she thought to herself. Shes on her phone talking to another Buttigieg aide. Smith: Are we talking about the same Pete Buttigieg? How did that manifest itself with Pete, the first candidate youve ever advised who was approximately the same age as you? Lis Smith, the mayor-elect's spokeswoman during the homestretch of his campaign and for his transition to Gracie Mansion, is in a relationship with Spitzer, the hooker-scandal-disgraced ex . From the second I met Pete, I knew that there was something special about him. 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. [17] She has been included in Fortune's 40 Under 40 in Government and Politics,[18] and Crain's list of the 50 Most Powerful Women in New York. 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. Lis Smith, the political communications specialist who helped bring Buttigieg to national prominence before he became President Joe Biden's Transportation secretary, revealed the decision in an . Of course, then I would, Id get a tepid reception and she would never let me hear the end of it. She most recently worked as a senior advisor in communications to presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg. Smith plotted the rollout of Pete Buttigiegs longshot presidential campaign. Let Pete be Pete. He's on his way into a black car to do Maddow. I should know: Last October, I had my own intimate, off-the-record encounter with Mayor Pete. Wren: Much has been made about Trump Derangement Syndrome this idea that, true or not, he scrambles rational political responses from otherwise reasonable people. Smith: Im not going to touch that with a 10-foot pole. Her phone is literally exploding. There is a top political reporter for a major national newspaper apologizing for blowing off a meeting with Buttigieg earlier and trying to get one now, asking Smith, Will you ever forgive me?. Im horrified. I consider him a friend . Theyre out in country working on campaigns. I think we saw that Kamalas attack on Biden was obviously was pretty pointed. I have talked to all the guys who see in the shots. The thing with Terry McAuliffe is that hes in on the joke. It went on like this, just cursing up a blue streak for like two minutes., The aides mistake, Smith recalls, had to do with email: He failed to BCC reporters on a news release he blasted out. The final indignity, she said, is that de Blasios team team wanted the statement to say her departure was unrelated to her dating Spitzer. This is how we stop there from being a day three. It is 5:15 on a Monday evening. She figured that Buttigiegs sexual orientation and impossible-to-pronounce last name rendered him dead on arrival, but started researching the 35-year-old Indiana mayor and promptly took an eight-hour fall down a Google rabbit hole. 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. ELIOT AND DeBABE blared the cover of the New York Post, which ran several photos of the pair on its inside pages and in a column from the acid-tongued Andrea Peyser which called Smith not just any ordinary bimbo and called her an ambitious, youngish cookie who presumably does not charge Eliot for any services rendered., Eliot Spitzer and Lis Smith at a Philadelphia 76ers vs. New York Knicks game at Madison Square Garden in 2014. 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. Why? I think now more than ever, people need to understand how the media works. In what ways does your brand benefit from Petes, and in what ways does Petes brand benefit from yours? She ran it like he was trying to be president, getting him in front of as many microphones as she could. Smith: Thats hilarious. 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. "[30] Some critics felt that it minimized her role in discrediting the sexual assault allegations against Cuomo. Id worked for former [Former Maryland Gov.] Smith: Im not going to say who. Lis Smith: My favorite was one person asking me if I lost a bet or something. And its really heartening because you realize the future of the Democratic Party is really bright, and that all we need to do is help lift these people up. Pete was completely different. [8], In 2012, she became director of the rapid response team for Obama's 2012 presidential campaign. Maybe theres still time for me to choose a new life path because I felt extremely disillusioned. And so much of my book is about the power of belief and the element of belief that it takes to succeed in professional football, in politics, and hes the one who brought that belief back for me, and brought my love my pure love of politics back for me. A photo and audio tour of the hosts driving the conversation. In crisis PR mode, Lis Smith told top Cuomo aide Melissa DeRosa to 'just have your fucking assistant text people' and 'this is insane' as sexual harassment scandal blew up. Mistakes Ive made in my private life. The Post ran the exclusive photos of Spitzer ducking in and out of the Soho walk-up. Not to be cheesy, but it is one of my proudest accomplishments. 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. And if people like me dont get involved, then Im scared about the future of our country. Pete Buttigieg emerges as Democratic rock star proclaimed Business Insider during the race. TV news executives are calling, she says, emailing, now complaining that Buttigieg isnt doing their shows often enough. Lis Smith on Pete Buttigieg's campaign bus during a. Miller is darkly. 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. When Smith opens her laptop, there are saved tabs about Carolina Panthers quarterback Cam Newton, a YouTube video of a facial massage routine, kale recipes, a Time Out City Guide to Dubai and a 2012 Huffington Post article about how the Obama and Romney campaigns used Twitter. The writer from Indianapolis Monthly who went for a jog with Buttigieg three months before his feature landed, the Washington Post Magazine writer who sat down in a Virginia soul food joint with Mayor Pete long before he declared his presidential bid and the Yahoo News feature writer who crammed into the corner seat of a midtown Manhattan caf with him months ago. It has been my passion since I was nine years old, which sounds sick. He was thinking of running for chair of the Democratic National Committee. Everyone thought I was crazy. Neither Eliot nor I was gonna win a gold medal in the not reckless competition at the Olympics. [31][32], Smith is also known for her commentary and analysis of United States politics. 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? While working for the Obama campaign she met David Axelrod, whom Smith considers a mentor. 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. Wren: What do you look for in a candidate? He was a once-in-a-generation talent, someone who perfectly met the moment, says Smith. (The rapid-response job, Smith says, was for her like being a pig in shit. With Bill de Blasio, that was a different situation. In my book, I sort of get at this, but we are sort of an odd couple. But I understand that what I do isnt just a game. Smith: Oh, thats simple. Maybe they wont focus on the former reigning champion [Spitzer], for once. February 5, 2020 younolly Biography 0. That is not the typical relationship of adviser to political principal, but typical is not a word people use about Smith. Published on July 13, 2022 06:12 PM. Isis bride Lisa Smith's husband was British Jihadist Sajid Aslam During an investigation conducted by the Irish Mail on Sunday, she said that Aslam, the father of her daughter, is dead - having been killed in the past three months. There may be nobody more central to Mayor Petes media successbesides the candidate himself, and arguably his social-media-savvy husband, Chasten Buttigiegthan Smith, who serves as a communications adviser and all-around aide. | We met at the Roxy Hotel in Tribeca. [9][15] She later modeled a New Hampshire bus trip off of John McCain's Straight Talk Express during his 2000 presidential campaign in which reporters were invited on board to travel and question the candidate. I want him on everything, she told me. And I talked about that in the book. The photographer had captured Eliot and me exchanging loving looks as wed returned from a late-night dinner at a restaurant on my block.. And I have a nice, quiet life where I dont live in Washington, D.C. Why that works with Pete, whatever you want to call it the earnest side of him, this nerdy side of him, the wonky side of him was because it was authentically Pete. Phil snorted: Fck. Pete helped pull back that part of me, because while that might work when youre dealing in the New York tabloids, that doesnt sell as well in the Des Moines Register. Smith ended up dropping most of her other clients, politicians and nonprofits alike. POLITICO Weekend delivers gripping reads, smart analysis and a bit of high-minded fun. I am humbled and flattered and appreciative of when people recognize the hard work I put in on our media strategy, and the fact that we employed a media strategy that was radically different from everyone else in the field. Lis Smith was supposed to become de Blasio's press secretary until The Post revealed that she was dating former Gov. I think I am impressive because I am a violinist and I went to Dartmouth and I speak French and have traveled all over the world and, I dont know, I know a lot about great apes, she says. Smith marched him to the front of where the national and New York press were gathered, telling him, Are you ready for your first gaggle? He stayed until the matter was exhausted. In a crisis, the most important thing to do is to pause, to take a step back and get all the facts, and game out your response. That maybe once he double-dipped his fry at Barnabys? My mood changed when the Post story popped. She is most well known for being the senior advisor for Pete Buttigieg's 2020 presidential campaign and the director of rapid response for Obama's 2012 campaign. [2][3] During her time at Dartmouth, she volunteered for John Edwards' 2004 presidential campaign. The saga gave Smith an insight that most campaign operatives lack: what it's actually like to be that bug trapped under the magnifying glass. Now she has carefully orchestrated her own books launch doling out choice anecdotes to her beloved New York tabloids: De Blasio didnt trust NYPD security to keep secrets, ex-aide Lis Smith claims, blared one headline, which elicited an on the record statement from De Blasio himself. I want Democrats to read this book. Smith double majored in government and anthropology at Dartmouth College, graduating in 2005. Win or lose, she's turned an unknown into a serious . I cant believe you didnt know that! Smith: In my experience, the best working relationships between candidates and their top staff often depend on a sort of yin-yang dynamic. 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. I lost the media war thatId thought I commanded, Smith said. . Craig F. Walker/The Boston Globe via Getty Images. 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. You know what people are going to react to, and you know that the tabloids, just like the political press, oftentimes just wants a little scalp and then they will move on., How the Intercept Is Fueling the Democratic Civil WarBy Steven Perlberg. When Smith signed on to help Mayor Pete run for DNC chair, it was a part-time gighelping a candidate nobody had ever heard of run for an insider position, the kind of job decided not by the public, but in backrooms by the most hardcore party loyalists. Andrew Cuomo's. How badly," she asks me, are you trying to fuck me over right now?, Interactive: The Lo-Fi Voices That Speak for AmericaBy M. Scott Mahaskey and Zack Stanton. Tim Miller, my friend, wrote a great book weeks ago, where he talks about the danger of getting sucked up in the game. Theres the article in the Atlantic where the writer met the mayor of South Bend, Indiana for a chicken tempura lunch in Manhattan. Hes someone who is involved fighting childhood hunger. Wren: Fair enough. [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. I could bring out a little bit more of a killer instinct [in] him, but he could bring out sort of a gentler, more thoughtful side of me that was mutually beneficial to the campaign. [10], In 2016, she was the spokesperson for Marisol Alcantara's successful New York State Senate campaign. Smith has been studying the effort, reaching out to reporters who were there, and has been in regular contact with John Weaver, who helped engineer it. Theres a public Terry and a private Terry. Running for politics theres got to be a little element of narcissism or whatever you want to call it in you. 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. 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. Like we saw with Hillary Clinton, women are sometimes held to a different standard. She recalled tellingde Blasio chief of staff Phil Walzak over drinks that she and Spitzer were a couple. Lis Smith (born October 15, 1982) is an American political strategist affiliated with the Democratic Party. George Bush had Karl Rove; Bill Clinton had James Carville. Each was the political id the candidate couldnt, or wouldnt, express. She did, however, date a married man while serving as a campaign aide to former New York Mayor Bill de Blasio. 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. I know that the media loves to pick up on a gaffe here or there but the more comfortable you are, the more interviews you do, the more comfortable you get in front of the camera, and the less little slip ups matter. And especially on far-leftist DSA Twitter, Im basically just depicted as a mix between Lady Macbeth and Rasputin in a wig, that Im like some soulless political operatives. E! Because he completely disrupts the idea of what a successful younger politician is. Its about hustling for opportunities. She ran his campaign publicly by courting the national political press, a technique she further honed during Buttigieg's 2020 presidential campaign. And when I began asking around to figure out who was behind that strategy, the same name kept coming up: Lis Smith. [24], Smith authored the 2022 book Any Given Tuesday: A Political Love Story. After 20 campaigns flacking for candidates such as Transportation Secretary and former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg, former Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill, former Virginia Gov. She is operating on two and a half hours of sleep, having just arrived back in New York on a charter jet from South Bend, Indiana, after Buttigieg announced he was running for president. But I appreciate his courage in being willing to speak out about it. David Freedlander writes about politics and culture. I think thats always been part of Joe Bidens appeal. Smiths mother is a descendent of a signer of the Mayflower Compact, and a cousin of lead Watergate investigator Sam Ervin. 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. [2][11], She was the deputy campaign manager for the Martin O'Malley 2016 presidential campaign. Wren: How is Harris doing as a communicator? While the affair may have been fun while it lasted, the two reportedly split in 2015, it cost Smith her job. She has advised New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe and Montana Governor Steve Bullock, people who on paper at least are far more likely top-tier presidential contenders, and she served as a top aide for a number of Senate and gubernatorial races. Click here. The 54-year-old disgraced ex-governor. But seriously. She has a 3-day-old copy of the New York Post in her bag. 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. Keep in mind she was 22 at the time, Smith said. The private Terry is a lot more low-key, and lot more humble, a lot more thoughtful. [13][14], Smith met Pete Buttigieg on the recommendations of Axelrod and OMalley when he was considering running for Democratic National Committee chair in 2017 and became a consultant for the campaign. There are probably dozens of Mayor Petes out there across the country. Petes hitting at this moment in part because of the legwork they did. I see Donald Trump win the White House, which like everyone else, Im flabbergasted. Why would a Pete Buttigieg hire me? But I compartmentalized this knowledge like other things in my life. The first time people saw Pete, it was the same as the reaction I had when I first met him, which is where the hell has this guy been my entire life?. How consequential was that looking back? Smith: I dont know, because I think one thing we saw was that he was pretty good about handling stuff. When they gave me the job I thought, first of all this job exists? He knows the importance of building up our bench. A better response that is informed by all the facts is the most effective way to respond. Unless youre a total psychopath . Oh really, you didnt know that? Our resort was more Leave It to Beaver than Debbie Does Dallas,' she claimed. I was making the bet that I could run out the clock on disclosing our relationship until I got hired officially. [33][34][35] She has written for publications such as The New York Times, Vanity Fair and The Washington Post. Its a role that clearly lends itself to his skill set. Seeing how Pete cuts through with people and what a truly effective messenger hes become for the Democratic Party, it makes you realize: Theres not just one Mayor Pete. Buttigieg recently started getting savaged online when it surfaced that he had told an audience in 2015 that all lives matter, and as it happened, he was due to speak at Al Sharptons annual National Action Network convention. So the Post is about to report that Im dating Eliot Spitzer. Lis Smith, a Democratic communications operative, has written a memoir that pulls back the curtain on how campaigns are won and lost. But Joe Biden is president today, and Kamala Harris is his vice president. That means that shes held to a different standard than sometimes other candidates. Despite that having been some years ago, Jeff appears to support Smith and her recent endeavors. My advice is just go out there more, communicate more. None of those races were particularly easy. 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Adam Wren is national politics correspondent at POLITICO. 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. Hes someone I ask for advice. POLITICO Weekend flies into inboxes every Friday. [20] She was a senior advisor on Corey Johnson's 2021 campaign for New York City Comptroller, and raised $3.5 million in funds for a PAC supporting Andrew Yang's 2021 mayoral campaign. How could they claim my dating life had nothing to do with the decision when it was the sole reason I was leaving,? she said. Part of it with him is the persona. 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. And what Pete understood, and why I believed in him, was that to beat Trump, we didnt need to be him. Now more than ever, people are seeing politics touch everything in our lives. The New York Post is looking into you and Eliot, Smith wrote, adding, Well, fk. Maybe a story that would be 80-20 bad you can get down to 60-40 bad, and that little bit is worth it.. And if I can help you with my experience, my profile, my contacts, to do that, then I will do it. It was total bullst. The savvy strategist then had to figure out how to break the news to de Blasio and his camp, as their soon-to-be City Hall press secretary was now at the center of her own juicy tabloid scandal. There was only one path for us to break through. Pete asked the bouncer what the scene was like inside, and the bouncer told him it was lit. The term was lost on him. Lis Smith, Buttigieg's top communications adviser . Im joking. 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