Your knowledge of the process? And the fact that hes everywhere, from cable TV to Ebony to your local NPR show to your favorite sports podcast, means that a guy with no name recognition is suddenly hard to avoid. So I would obviously advise him not to respond. But Joe Biden is president today, and Kamala Harris is his vice president. But I love politics because it touches everything in our lives. 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. Mistakes Ive made in my private life. Smiths mother is a descendent of a signer of the Mayflower Compact, and a cousin of lead Watergate investigator Sam Ervin. Id worked for former [Former Maryland Gov.] [2][9] She later worked as the spokeswoman for Bill de Blasio's mayoral run in 2013. Market Realist is a registered trademark. And as you saw on Fox News Sunday, as I went to bed last night, [his clip] has 8 million views. Yeah. She is not letting Buttigieg read her book, Any Given Tuesday: A Political Love Story, ahead of publication day. Because it would drive me nuts during the campaign hearing all his wonky, wonky talk about infrastructure, about roads, about smart sewers. Smith ended up dropping most of her other clients, politicians and nonprofits alike. Its about hustling for opportunities. This 35-Year-Old Mayor From Indiana Is Wowing National Democrats The New Republic declared. 20 2022, Published 11:56 a.m. I romanticize it. He weighed in after the Supreme Court decision. 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. He didnt feel the need to go out there and be the coolest guy or the hippest guy on stage. | Lorenzo Bevilaqua/ABC via Getty Images. Did it worry you that he might not be the candidate with whom people most wanted to have a beer or should we say, get lit with? Its a role that clearly lends itself to his skill set. Wren: How is Harris doing as a communicator? She ran it like he was trying to be president, getting him in front of as many microphones as she could. In some ways, he came across as a Midwestern dad before he was, in fact, a Midwestern dad. Smith: Mayor Pete is where Mayor Pete is now because Mayor Pete is just one of the most uniquely talented members of the Democratic Party. We met at the Roxy Hotel in Tribeca. Hes been a guest on BuzzFeeds morning news show, been featured on Vices nightly news show and sat down with a couple of the guys from Barstool Sports. Less than 24 hours after announcing the end of his marriage, former Gov. And it was a running joke between us: I was like, I cant listen to you talk about smart sewers one more time, or I will lose my mind. He loves that stuff. Maybe Im done. It pisses me off, she adds, When candidates think they are too good for some of these outlets, or that it cheapens them to do TMZ or do a more entertainment-focused thing. Other candidates, they dont need to do it. Theres just no one who can do a TV interview like Pete Buttigieg. There is only so much you can do to bare your soul over a beer, but hopefully people get to know you on some level and more than they would one gaggle at a time. The great media disruption comes for the Des Moines Register. Our resort was more Leave It to Beaver than Debbie Does Dallas,' she claimed. Then there was what I did next: jumped off the cliff. The Post ran the exclusive photos of Spitzer ducking in and out of the Soho walk-up. If Im going to be honest about other people and their shortcomings, its really important for me to be honest about myself and my own shortcomings, Smith told me. William C. Lopez After leaving the eatery at around 12:30 a.m., Smith gave Spitzer a flirtatious look over her shoulder before the . He was a once-in-a-generation talent, someone who perfectly met the moment. They have one man to thank. 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. Im joking. If there is one thing that makes Smith unique, its not her knowledge of great apes or her particular skill eviscerating her opponents on Twitter; Its that her skin was toughened by a stretch of time in the rawest, roughest media environment of all, the NYC tabloid scrum. Lis Smith on Pete Buttigieg's campaign bus during a four day tour of Iowa, September 23, 2019. 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. And you know what their problem is? She was also communications director for Dan Seals' 2008 Illinois House race. It was younger reporters, super-hungry reporters that really know how to use Twitter, people who can then go to a cocktail party and tell their friends they had a beer with this guy Pete Buttigieg three hours from now. This is what day one looks like. 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. Smith is a fierce New York City-based Democratic operative who helped engineer the plan to get Buttigieg in front of not just national political reporters, but anybody with a camera or microphone. Because he completely disrupts the idea of what a successful younger politician is. After winning the election, the candidate joined the Independent Democratic Conference (IDC), and Smith consulted briefly for the group. The photographer also snapped Spitzer leaving Smiths apartment early the next morning wearing a skullcap and hooded sweatshirt, Not exactly the wardrobe of an innocent man, she notes. She was my girlfriend., Later, says Smith, when he was a state lawmaker, I would say to her, I am going to talk to such-and-such group, and she would tell me, This is what you should say. And I would say to her, Lis, I am not going to say that, its not my style, its not going to work. They need to understand how the political process works. Adam Wren is national politics correspondent at POLITICO. And you just like have this moment, where youre like, Maybe this is it. 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?. This story has been shared 102,835 times. It might not get you the votes, but I am not the political director. The story of American presidential politics is in part the story of the consiglieres who steer the candidate along the path: The person who pushes them forward, comforts them when the campaign flails, plots long-term strategy and tactical short-term advantage, bends the ear of the press corps and makes the public case for a candidate in ways the candidate cannot. Smith said she learned a hard lesson: Even a professional cant try to manage a personal crisis without help. 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. He was a once-in-a-generation talent, someone who perfectly met the moment. Letting Claire be Claire. What I realized from my time working in politics is how much mystery there still is around this industry. I, in those races, became extremely battle-tested. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. Wren: You mentioned that some people might view you as radioactive. When they gave me the job I thought, first of all this job exists? From her days as a college intern for John Edwards to her own brush with the New York tabloids, the book traces her entertaining path to the height of the American political consultant class. They have grown to like and trust each other. In her book, Smith also called another client she worked for,ex-Gov. Deciding to get into politics for me, and in the world of political operatives, was like jumping off a cliff. [43], Smith says she experiences stage fright. 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. Smith: Dont make me praise Chris Meagher. He did. [10], In 2016, she was the spokesperson for Marisol Alcantara's successful New York State Senate campaign. [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. Wren: He rehabilitated you and taught you to love the political process again. And they all lack humility. But more broadly, they are diagnosing the ills of the party that paid their housing for years. ), Smith quipped. Does something like Buttigieg Derangement Syndrome exist? I was coming off some New York races where everything is just all-day personal attacks getting in the mud. Win or lose in the 2020 Democratic campaign, Pete Buttigieg's senior adviser Lis Smith has turned an unknown mayor into a serious contender. Some are even in the White House, like Deputy Press Secretary Chris Meagher, who briefed the press not too long ago. Were just not looking for them. You can unsubscribe at any time and you can contact us here. They lead with emotion. Okay, so Im working for tabloid target #1 in Bill de Blasio. And if people like me dont get involved, then Im scared about the future of our country. How did that manifest itself with Pete, the first candidate youve ever advised who was approximately the same age as you? Sign up for our newsletter. Smith: I dont know, because I think one thing we saw was that he was pretty good about handling stuff. [19], In 2020, Smith was one of six political experts named as fellows by the Georgetown Institute of Politics and Public Service. Smith, the famously aggressive political operative battle-honed in the brass knuckles politics of New York City and in red-state political tilts, plotted the rollout of Buttigiegs longshot presidential campaign. A lot of people thought that to beat Trump, you had to be Trump. Theres the article in the Atlantic where the writer met the mayor of South Bend, Indiana for a chicken tempura lunch in Manhattan. There was only one path for us to break through. The private Terry is a lot more low-key, and lot more humble, a lot more thoughtful. 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 lives in New York. Smith: One of the things Ive learned over my time in politics is that youve got to let your candidates be themselves. Political strategist Lis Smith isnt a married woman, though she may one day decide to tie the knot with a lucky somebody. He knows the importance of building up our bench. Eight hundred have showed up. By signing up you agree to receive email newsletters or updates from POLITICO and you agree to our privacy policy and terms of service. I had a beerhe stuck to waterand we talked about his political ambitions and the state of the Democratic Party and why Trump won. Well, of course someone running for president would need to talk about it with me first, right? Political strategist Lis Smith casts Bill de Blasio as a "gross unshowered guy" who had good reason to be "pissed" about her romantic fling with Eliot Spitzer exposed by The Post especially. It was in 2013, the time when Smith was working for the de Blasio campaign, that she began dating Eliot Spitzer. [33][34][35] She has written for publications such as The New York Times, Vanity Fair and The Washington Post. | By ERIN BANCO, GARRETT M. GRAFF, LARA SELIGMAN, NAHAL TOOSI and ALEXANDER WARD. A report by New York Attorney General Letitia James showed that Smith was working behind the scenes to protect Cuomo from the allegations. [16] Business Insider considered her to be one of the 10 most powerful women running the 2020 presidential campaigns. Wren: Fair enough. 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. But it is kind of fascinating to watch., Smith met Buttigieg on the recommendation of Axelrod and former Maryland Governor Martin OMalley. And although Smith would never say it, it plays on political reporters' narcissism, too. Petes hitting at this moment in part because of the legwork they did. The Buttigiegs announced last month that they were engaged in the adoption process. Im horrified. The whole saga also taught her the rhythms of the New York tabloids, which have similarities to the national political press. This is an election where the women voters are going to be really important. And if I can help you with my experience, my profile, my contacts, to do that, then I will do it. I was also reckless. Craig F. Walker/The Boston Globe via Getty Images. Still, she said, I wasnt exactly a PR neophyte. 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. 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. Published on July 13, 2022 06:12 PM. Smith: All the good candidates are comfortable in their own skin. Shes a Black half-South-Indian woman. In a clip from her memoir shared by Fox News, Smith slammed de Blasio for leaving her out to dry after firing her over the affair. It meant a lot to me as a woman to have someone like that. 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. Because he was a badass. It was total bullst. Weaver says that recreating that atmosphere in the days of Twitter, and in the days when the national political press corps has metastasized into a constantly hungry and multiheaded beast equipped with cell phones, is 10 times harder than when his team tried it in 1999. What else was the oppo they were dropping? Like we saw with Hillary Clinton, women are sometimes held to a different standard. Obama had David Axelrod. These days, Smith seems to be heavily involved in promoting her new book. He doesnt yell and scream, take the most extreme positions on issues, or tweet incendiary things. By. I am a liberal Democrat, but I was so into the McCain thing. Spitzer, at the time, was attempting to regain his footing in politics after resigning from his position in 2008. 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. What do I get if I pay for your consulting services? . Now that they have achieved liftoff, as it were, Smith is preparing for the next part of the campaign. Andrew Cuomo, had turned into a Nicorette-chomping ahole who ruined the lives of his staffers after letting national fame get to his head during the coronavirus pandemic. 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. It was written over a period of 18 months,[25] and covers her life and political career. No, actually, it shows a fundamental disrespect for the people who consume their news on this platform if you arent willing to go where they are.. After his loss in the primary, Smith went to work on the winning election campaign and then the transition of New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio. I would give Pete 95 percent of the credit and give me five percent of the credit. Usually, it was all good-natured. Oversaturation? But until they released him from the NDA, we just didnt get his clients. TV news executives are calling, she says, emailing, now complaining that Buttigieg isnt doing their shows often enough. I wasnt born yesterday. I knew from the beginningthat our relationship would be a big tabloid story when it became public. My end goalsbeing able to stay in New York with Eliot and serve as the New York City mayors press secretarywere in sight. Unless youre a total psychopath . Smith is now Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio's spokeswoman and is dating Spitzer. Smith: Youve got to meet voters where they are. I lost the media war thatId thought I commanded, Smith said. I consider him a friend . Jeff Smith, her former boyfriend, recalls one time when he was running for office, his campaign managers phone rang. She is the most competitive person I have ever known.. (The rapid-response job, Smith says, was for her like being a pig in shit. We needed to be the antidote to him. Lis Smith entered politics after watching The War Room, the 1992 documentary about Bill Clinton's successful bid for the presidency. I think that she gets a lot of unfair criticism. We knew the McKinsey stuff would be it, but he was bound by an NDA. Its sad, but our politics isnt built to deal with people who are reasonable. After 20 campaigns flacking for candidates such as Transportation Secretary and former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg, former Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill,. Riley was joined by her husband Ben Smith-Petersen, who gave a touching speech at Lisa Marie's funeral, in which he revealed that they recently welcomed a daughter into the world. There are probably dozens of Mayor Petes out there across the country. A text arrives from John Weaver, a top adviser to former Ohio Governor John Kasich. The one thing you saw on our campaign in 2020 is that everywhere we went, he was introduced by young leaders, young mayors. Its a super-aggressive thing to do. 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. It was by no means an obvious career move for Smith. But I compartmentalized this knowledge like other things in my life. I thought everybody knew that.. Axelrod told Buttigieg about Smith, and OMalley told Smith about this young mayor from South Bend. Smith has spent much of her career as a political strategist working for prominent men such as Pete Buttigieg, Barack Obama, and the now disgraced Andrew Cuomo. 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. [2][3] During her time at Dartmouth, she volunteered for John Edwards' 2004 presidential campaign. So the Post is about to report that Im dating Eliot Spitzer. "[29] Lloyd Green, writing for The Guardian, called it "breezy and informative. I would say that these days, my vetting skills are maybe a little savvier. (Todd Maisel/New York Daily News) "They're both consenting adults and can do what they want," said a former Spitzer. Smith: Oh, thats simple. Pete asked the bouncer what the scene was like inside, and the bouncer told him it was lit. The term was lost on him. But its not just about the 18-year-old girl. Pete Buttigieg and his husband Chasten in February 2020. And so, she says, she cant talk right now. 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. She advised a couple of governors still left in office, and started taking on more nonprofit clients. Liz Smith, the syndicated gossip columnist who chronicled the lives of New York's rich and famous with such skill she became known as the "Dame of Dish . The Covid pandemic. At the newsstand around the corner, you could buy a New York magazine with Buttigiegs beatifically smiling face splashed across the cover, and a New York Times with an A1 story about his time at Harvard. Whats that like? Her plan is to emulate maybe the best-known and most successful insurgent move of recent campaign history: John McCains 2000 Straight Talk Express. And so when they feel like they are getting attacked, or their families are getting atttacked, they think staff can never talk to them on the level, and it is frustrating for principals, because they are like, You are just a kid, you dont know anything. But with me, I can tell them, This is what is going to happen, this is how we are going to deal with it. [2] In 2014, she became a communication consultant for Adriano Espaillat's congressional campaign. It is a matter of life and death and we need every person on the field pic.twitter.com/LPqIS3zjnW. As a thirty-something mayor of a medium-size city, Buttigieg faced a credibility threshold with the national press. But that didnt work out. Not to be cheesy, but it is one of my proudest accomplishments. We are humble and kind, to quote Tim McGraw. I think hes a really good person. Maybe a story that would be 80-20 bad you can get down to 60-40 bad, and that little bit is worth it.. Politics is literally a matter of life and death. Wren: Theres a part of Pete that is a little wonky, a little square. But there may be no political couple odder than that of Buttigieg and Smith. She is practically shaking with excess energy. 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. I would do that for free.). I want people to know what its like behind the scenes. . 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. How consequential was that looking back? He was going up against George Bush, who had $50 million and he had $4 million, and so he just decides to tear up the playbook and put himself out there. 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? Read on for more details on the relationship that cost Smith her job, who she has dated since, and what shes up to these days. But the Post discovered where they were. This includes with her own boss. I think its just shaped up to be a perfect role for him. So it was just sort of the perfect confluence of all these things where that yin and yang dynamic got us together. 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. Lets be real, Adam. That maybe once he double-dipped his fry at Barnabys? 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