TV news executives are calling, she says, emailing, now complaining that Buttigieg isnt doing their shows often enough. Now more than ever, people are seeing politics touch everything in our lives. Lis Smith who also served as spokeswoman for Mayor Bill de Blasio and worked on President Barack Obama's re-election campaign helped spark the media frenzy around the 37-year-old gay. [40], Smith dated Missouri politician Jeff Smith after meeting him at Dartmouth and handled some of his publicity during his campaign. Theyre out in country working on campaigns. But as long as its just like that one percent that you need to have the confidence that you can go out and rally thousands of people, and that its just that 1 percent and not 70 percent, then its all good. Lis knew that she had to build wide to build up, said Stephanie Cutter, who also worked on Obamas 2012 effort. She ran it like he was trying to be president, getting him in front of as many microphones as she could. 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.. While her work history list might be lengthy, her dating track record isnt very long. But I understand that what I do isnt just a game. This isnt going as planned., She continued: As soon as I got Hari on the line, he filled me in. They have grown to like and trust each other. And they all lack humility. 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. Part of it with him is the persona. 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. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. He was a once-in-a-generation talent, someone who perfectly met the moment. 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 is practically shaking with excess energy. January 25 2022 01:38 PM A prosecution barrister has told a non-jury court it will hear evidence that Lisa Smith's husband took a sniper course on her advice while he was carrying out border. Lis Smith, a Democratic communications operative, has written a memoir that pulls back the curtain on how campaigns are won and lost. Shes a Black half-South-Indian woman. Theyre in the agencies. . 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. 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. Smith, standing behind Buttigieg as he campaigns at various events in New York this April. Democratic operative Lis Smith on Monday savaged her former boss, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, over his municipal coronavirus response, while offering effusive praise for Gov. Because Pete is so Midwestern nice, I think it was helpful for him to have someone who could help kick him into another gear, and sort of push him to have the more aggressive instinct you need to break through in a presidential race. She most recently worked as a senior advisor in communications to presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg. Its that everyday when I go into work to try and get these people elected its because it will impact lives. [33][34][35] She has written for publications such as The New York Times, Vanity Fair and The Washington Post. I had a beerhe stuck to waterand we talked about his political ambitions and the state of the Democratic Party and why Trump won. Deciding to get into politics for me, and in the world of political operatives, was like jumping off a cliff. Photo: amyandstuart.com@AmyandStuart. I really did feel he treated me as an equal. 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. Click here. | The Buttigiegs announced last month that they were engaged in the adoption process. Tom Ford. But it is kind of fascinating to watch., Smith met Buttigieg on the recommendation of Axelrod and former Maryland Governor Martin OMalley. The attack we had been dreading was coming. And if I can help you with my experience, my profile, my contacts, to do that, then I will do it. 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. Click here. She and Spitzer then jetted to Jamaica to get away from the media frenzy. Theres the article in the Atlantic where the writer met the mayor of South Bend, Indiana for a chicken tempura lunch in Manhattan. 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. Wren: One of your legacies is the coaching tree, to use an apt football metaphor, that you left behind on the Pete campaign. On the flip side of that, the most established, the most convention conventional political consultants werent going to go work for Pete Buttigieg, the 37-year-old mayor of South Bend. [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. This is what day two looks like. And what Pete understood, and why I believed in him, was that to beat Trump, we didnt need to be him. Wren: This book is in some ways a tell-all about the role of a political consultant. I first met John Edwards when I was 19 or 20 years old. I think thats always been part of Joe Bidens appeal. Except then it didnt. Of course, then I would, Id get a tepid reception and she would never let me hear the end of it. Because he completely disrupts the idea of what a successful younger politician is. 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. It is a matter of life and death and we need every person on the field pic.twitter.com/LPqIS3zjnW. He knows the importance of building up our bench. I dont live and breathe politics every day. It is, she says, the only newspaper she subscribes to. 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. Because 2015 and 2016 were really difficult times in my life. Smith: I think a lot of people get a very one-dimensional view of me. I think that she gets a lot of unfair criticism. He doesnt yell and scream, take the most extreme positions on issues, or tweet incendiary things. The two of us talked this week about Buttigiegs political future, whether Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow could jump into politics, and the ingredients of a good political candidate. I romanticize it. I think its a little bit of a ride. Through the DNC race and afterward, Smith treated the national political press like it was another constituency that needed to be courted. He is in talks to do a Fox News town hall in the coming weeks, building off the surprise success of Bernie Sanders appearance on Fox, and in the past couple of weeks has also been on Ellen and The View, as well as Preet Bhararas podcast, The Intercepts podcast and The New Yorkers podcast. A New York Post photographer had been surreptitiously posted outside my SoHo walkup apartment. That fall, Spitzer and Smith started dating, which led to the New York City tabloids staking out her apartment to watch the pair coming and going. In fact, other than Spitzer, Smith appears to have been flying solo for the last few years. I, in those races, became extremely battle-tested. The book was praised for its insight into the personal and political fortunes of politicians she advised. Wren: You and Pete have very different brands. Wren: Youre often credited with vaulting Pete from the mayor of Indianas fourth-largest city to a member of Bidens cabinet. (The rapid-response job, Smith says, was for her like being a pig in shit. It is 5:15 on a Monday evening. Buttigiegs rise from unlikeliest of contenders to actual top-tier presidential candidate has been fueled in part, maybe in large part, by his astonishing success courting the press. Wren: I want a window into how you advise candidates amid a crisis. They lead with emotion. 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. Smith: It made me want to be better at my job. And so, she says, she cant talk right now. The final indignity, she said, is that de Blasios team team wanted the statement to say her departure was unrelated to her dating Spitzer. We would like to show you a description here but the site won't allow us. [16] Business Insider considered her to be one of the 10 most powerful women running the 2020 presidential campaigns. 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. [2][3] During her time at Dartmouth, she volunteered for John Edwards' 2004 presidential campaign. [6] She became communications director for the Democratic Governors Association in 2011. Maybe somewhere an 18-year-old girl like me can pick up my book and can learn something from it about how you work with candidates, how you work with the media, how you deal with crisis, and also learn from my mistakes. She ran his campaign publicly by courting the national political press, a technique she further honed during Buttigieg's 2020 presidential campaign. But I compartmentalized this knowledge like other things in my life. There is nothing too big for her. Politics is literally a matter of life and death. 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. Like we saw with Hillary Clinton, women are sometimes held to a different standard. 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 . I want people to know what its like behind the scenes. I think we saw that Kamalas attack on Biden was obviously was pretty pointed. POLITICO Weekend delivers gripping reads, smart analysis and a bit of high-minded fun. When you do more interviews, it reduces that gotcha instinct with the press, it reduces that cat and mouse game. Smiths Any Given Tuesday: A Political Love Story, out July 19, is an irreverent, intimate and honest look behind the curtain of modern political image-making including her own. 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. He was a once-in-a-generation talent, someone who perfectly met the moment. It may look like the sky is falling, but just ride this out.. 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. Behind the scenes, Id get keep your head up emails from senior de Blasio aides, but when it came to the press, it seemed their attitude was more along the lines of off with her head. Are you kidding me? By. Andrew Cuomo's. As a thirty-something mayor of a medium-size city, Buttigieg faced a credibility threshold with the national press. But until they released him from the NDA, we just didnt get his clients. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Thanks for contacting us. And he is as squeaky clean behind the scenes as he is in front of the camera. 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. You deploy the F-bomb like Picasso used drypoint. Maybe a story that would be 80-20 bad you can get down to 60-40 bad, and that little bit is worth it.. POLITICO Weekend flies into inboxes every Friday. Wren: Could see a political career for him? He didnt feel the need to go out there and be the coolest guy or the hippest guy on stage. Unless youre a total psychopath . In real life, I have a really close-knit family. I see that being taken so far out of context. They are doing things that are more directly relevant to peoples lives. But the Post discovered where they were. And I talked about that in the book. What we did is fucking ridiculous. 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 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. While working for the Obama campaign she met David Axelrod, whom Smith considers a mentor. 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. I worked in states like South Dakota, Missouri, Ohio, Kentucky, Virginia. AFP via Getty Images She dished about the former mayor's. Adam Wren is national politics correspondent at POLITICO. 2023 NYP Holdings, Inc. All Rights Reserved, De Blasio didnt trust NYPD security to keep secrets, ex-aide Lis Smith claims, Gross unshowered de Blasio wanted to get in bed with Spitzer but I beat him to it: ex-aide Lis Smith, How Americas gov became Americas ahole: Ex-Cuomo staffers new book, Chris Cuomo could be a dk to disgraced ex-govs staff, new book claims. Im just going to leave it there because I thought it was funny. Wren: When you started working with Aftab Pureval did Pete feel like you were two-timing him with another Midwestern mayor of a river city with a funny name? You dont reach out to the 35-year-old gay mayor of South Bend, Indiana, because you think it will be an easy ride.. Its just a personal part of my book. And you just like have this moment, where youre like, Maybe this is it. 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.. You have to know the social media ecosystem, how people are sharing and consuming their news. Theres just no one who can do a TV interview like Pete Buttigieg. After 20 campaigns flacking for candidates such as Transportation Secretary and former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg, former Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill,. Not possible, Smith says. I knew from the beginningthat our relationship would be a big tabloid story when it became public. | Lorenzo Bevilaqua/ABC via Getty Images. Still, she still sought to rationalize her relationship with Spitzer. 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 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. After O'Malley's campaign, she advised several nonprofit organizations, and incumbent governors such as Montana governor Steve Bullock. [44] Smith plays the violin.[44]. 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. It was Lis telling me I need to fire my campaign manager, that the guy is a fucking idiot. 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. New transcripts and . 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. Mistakes Ive made in my private life. Hes someone who is very special to me, and I hope hes always a part of my life. Ive always tried to be very grounded. He was out there. 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. Before getting involved with Spitzer, Smith allegedly became romantic with Jeff Smith, who she reportedly met at Dartmouth while he was working as her professor. Whitney Whitis. But there have been a few times when Ive been around him when I knew something, a factoid or something he didnt know, and let me tell you, I fucking lord it all over him. And no, politics is my love. The White House Correspondents Dinner is shrinking back to the boring awards ceremony journalists claimed to prefer. 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Political strategist Lis Smith reveals in her new book how The Post exposed that she was dating prostitution-loving former Gov. [The vice presidency] is probably the toughest, most thankless job in Washington D.C. In my book, I sort of get at this, but we are sort of an odd couple. 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. We needed to be the antidote to him. 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. We were on the bus in New Hampshire the week we were playing each other and furiously checking our lineups. Im realistic here. Eliot Spitzer. Each was the political id the candidate couldnt, or wouldnt, express. Miller is darkly. Pete and I, you can probably tell are pretty laid-back, pretty low-key, I guess what you would call pretty Midwestern, said Mike Schmuhl, Buttigiegs campaign manager, who sounds like the host of a classical-music radio station who just returned from a yoga retreat. Wren: Tell me about that five percent credited to you. Because he was a badass. The most important thing is theres no one way to be a Democrat no matter what any of these lefty groups in Washington say, and we cannot expect candidates in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin and Ohio and Arizona and North Carolina to check off every box on the progressive party purity test. It might not get you the votes, but I am not the political director. Alums [of the campaign] are on the Hill. Smith: In my experience, the best working relationships between candidates and their top staff often depend on a sort of yin-yang dynamic. Sign up for POLITICO Magazines email of the weeks best, delivered to your inbox every Friday morning. He did. A lot of people people whose opinion you respect told you that you were nuts when you chose to work for Pete. [9][41] From 2013 to 2015, she had a relationship with her former boss, New York governor Eliot Spitzer. Dont miss it! He looked white as a ghost, didnt say anything, just nodding along. Smith: Im not going to touch that with a 10-foot pole. Obama had David Axelrod. 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. 90 minutes with one of America's top political consultants. [44] She describes herself as an "oyster-tarian," which she defines as a vegetarian who will eat oysters. Its really hard to do a hit piece on a guy who you are going to see the next morning over coffee and donuts. 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. Im horrified. She texts the buzziest bits to her sprawling network of journalistic contacts, who tweet them out. I dont know if that delegate from Oklahoma is going be reading the Elle.com profile, but a lot of people are, and they should get to know Pete Buttigieg, she says. Now that they have achieved liftoff, as it were, Smith is preparing for the next part of the campaign. 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. To avoid stakeouts during the media frenzy that followed, Smith said she temporarily stayed with a friend from her college days at Dartmouthwho resided on the Upper West Side. And someone needs to be. 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