Rather than going after Pete, Harris trained her fire on Biden.. 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. Not possible, Smith says. You deploy the F-bomb like Picasso used drypoint. For example, you write in your book about going to a pop-up bar in South Bend with Pete and his best friend and campaign manager, Mike Schmuhl. She has a 3-day-old copy of the New York Post in her bag. I lost the media war thatId thought I commanded, Smith said. By. John Edwards comes to mind. The Simpsons actress Yeardley Smith is newly married and she and her husband have quite the . 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. which Politico Magazine excerpted last week. While working for the Obama campaign she met David Axelrod, whom Smith considers a mentor. [8], In 2012, she became director of the rapid response team for Obama's 2012 presidential campaign. Id worked for former [Former Maryland 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. Spitzer leaves the apatment of Lis Smith at 5:44 a.m. on Dec. 19. E! A few weeks ago, a couple of hundred people expressed interest in this event. 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. 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. That maybe once he double-dipped his fry at Barnabys? Adam Wren is national politics correspondent at POLITICO. By signing up you agree to receive email newsletters or updates from POLITICO and you agree to our privacy policy and terms of service. Pete Buttigieg emerges as Democratic rock star proclaimed Business Insider during the race. 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?. Schmuhl, his campaign manager, says a typical scene from the trail for the three of them is arriving 10 or 15 minutes early to the airport gate, and while he and Buttegiegwho hes known since 8th grade in Indianatake a moment to relax for a minute before boarding, Smith will head to the airport bar with her laptop and phone and begins texting and emailing reporters and clapping back to critics on social media. [44] Smith plays the violin.[44]. Tommy McArdle. But I appreciate his courage in being willing to speak out about it. George Bush had Karl Rove; Bill Clinton had James Carville. 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. She then switched to de Blasios general election campaign for mayor. That even in the age of Twitter, that especially in the age of Twitter, people dont really care about gaffes. The way Smith tells it, she thought she was done with presidential politics after OMalleys campaign fizzled in 2016. As a thirty-something mayor of a medium-size city, Buttigieg faced a credibility threshold with the national press. Chuck Kennedy/PFA. I was coming off some New York races where everything is just all-day personal attacks getting in the mud. 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. 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. Eliot Spitzer wasted no time Wednesday in cozying up to his new girlfriend's family. 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. 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? 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. Usually, it was all good-natured. `Jesus, you always keep it interesting.'. Published on July 13, 2022 06:12 PM. 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. Because he was a badass. Wren: What is your relationship with Pete like now? Even people like Terry McAuliffe and Claire McCaskill, who both have outsized personalities. 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. She did, however, date a married man while serving as a campaign aide to former New York Mayor Bill de Blasio. You have to know the social media ecosystem, how people are sharing and consuming their news. And you are going to pay me to be really quick and really aggressive and to take on Mitt Romney? Both Miller and Smith come off as quasi-heros, semi-savants, pseudo-sociologists. He shoots her a look and gives a mock shrug, as if it's an inside joke between the three of us, now old chums: I mean, a little I guess., Buttigieg makes an appearance on "The View." Did I think hed sit on the floor with me and sing Kumbaya and tell me it would be all okay? Even TMZ got in the act LEO DICAPRIO OFFERED BUTTIGIEG HELP DURING 2020 RUN, trumpeted the chyron. I think thats probably the biggest misconception about me. Terry McAuliffe, and President Barack Obama, Lis Smith is finally flacking for Lis Smith. 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. She is practically shaking with excess energy. I have talked to all the guys who see in the shots. My end goalsbeing able to stay in New York with Eliot and serve as the New York City mayors press secretarywere in sight. That means that shes held to a different standard than sometimes other candidates. 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.. Smith starts texting me, wanting to know if Id seen the celebrities in the audience, including George Takei, Kal Penn and Kate McKinnon. 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. It was by no means an obvious career move for Smith. It wasnt an ideal situation, but it taught me a lot, Smith says. 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. In some ways, he came across as a Midwestern dad before he was, in fact, a Midwestern dad. And although Smith would never say it, it plays on political reporters' narcissism, too. The more people see Bill de Blasio, the less they like him. In what ways does your brand benefit from Petes, and in what ways does Petes brand benefit from yours? Your Bengals fandom and their Super Bowl run is a part of the book. Unless youre a total psychopath . How did that manifest itself with Pete, the first candidate youve ever advised who was approximately the same age as you? Smith, who is a Bronx native, must be an intelligent woman, but going for the "bad boys" might . Sign up for our newsletter. Its about hustling for opportunities. They need to understand how the political process works. Wren: Did you have a good handle before the campaign on Petes vulnerabilities? 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. The speed with which Buttegieg emerged has been astonishing, which happens to be the speed at which Smith works. Our meeting was part of a strategy, one run with surprising sophistication and efficacy for a candidate whose highest-profile gig so far is a local office in the fourth-biggest city in Indiana. 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. It takes the edge off a bit. They are already well-known.. Despite that having been some years ago, Jeff appears to support Smith and her recent endeavors. [2], She worked on Tom Daschle's 2004 Senate campaign as a field organizer. [5] In 2009, she became press secretary for Terry McAuliffe and Jon Corzine's gubernatorial races before moving on to becoming the communications director for Ted Strickland's 2010 Ohio governor's race. By ERIN BANCO, GARRETT M. GRAFF, LARA SELIGMAN, NAHAL TOOSI and ALEXANDER WARD. [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. She led Buttigieg on a series of one-on-one meetings over beer, coffee, lunch or cigars with what used to be known as the Gang of 500those reporters, producers and pundits who shape much of the nations political coverage. What we did is fucking ridiculous. Shes on her phone talking to another Buttigieg aide. Smith: Youve got to meet voters where they are. I should know: Last October, I had my own intimate, off-the-record encounter with Mayor Pete. Keep in mind she was 22 at the time, Smith said. She most recently worked as a senior advisor in communications to presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg. How Trump Took the Shine Off Washingtons Glitziest NightBy John F. Harris and Daniel Lippman. Smith: One of the things Ive learned over my time in politics is that youve got to let your candidates be themselves. [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. She did, however, date a married. Craig F. Walker/The Boston Globe via Getty Images. Hes someone who is very special to me, and I hope hes always a part of my life. | Mark Peterson/Redux, Yuki Iwamura/Redux. Can I tell you something very off the record, she texts. It is a matter of life and death and we need every person on the field pic.twitter.com/LPqIS3zjnW. Obama had David Axelrod. 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. 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 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. Ahead of the release of her highly anticipated political memoir (which Politico Magazine excerpted last week), that includes figuring out how to get her computer to record our phone interview ammo to use in the event that its needed to set the record straight. Smith: You never say never. Smith, standing behind Buttigieg as he campaigns at various events in New York this April. 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. February 5, 2020 younolly Biography 0. In real life, I have a really close-knit family. He hung up and looked at me in horror, and then my phone started ringing. Mistakes Ive made in my private life. After O'Malley's campaign, she advised several nonprofit organizations, and incumbent governors such as Montana governor Steve Bullock. (The rapid-response job, Smith says, was for her like being a pig in shit. Elliot Spitzer (pictured), the election of Donald Trump and former Maryland Gov. 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. A New York Post photographer had been surreptitiously posted outside my SoHo walkup apartment. They lead with emotion. I would do that for free.). He knows the importance of building up our bench. . She texts the buzziest bits to her sprawling network of journalistic contacts, who tweet them out. The thing with Terry McAuliffe is that hes in on the joke. Smith did not let anyone featured in the book read it ahead of time, not even former principals like Buttigieg or Cuomo, whom she levels in the book in the way her beloved Cincinnati Bengals new right tackle Lael Collins might decimate an opposing player. Neither Eliot nor I was gonna win a gold medal in the not reckless competition at the Olympics. Okay, so Im working for tabloid target #1 in Bill de Blasio. Axelrod told Buttigieg about Smith, and OMalley told Smith about this young mayor from South Bend. Copyright 2023 Market Realist. Chuck Kennedy/PFA. Letting Claire be Claire. Before a debate, you have no idea how much gossip is going around. 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. Wed gone down to Jamaica to get away from tabloid drama, not actively court it, Smith said. Deciding to get into politics for me, and in the world of political operatives, was like jumping off a cliff. I dont live and breathe politics every day. 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. It was total bullst. Are you kidding me? How much of his success was because of you, and how much was because of him? Weve got that Joey Burrow swag, but he does have humility to him. 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. When I was starting in politics, we didnt have women. The White House Correspondents Dinner is shrinking back to the boring awards ceremony journalists claimed to prefer. 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. And I agree with him that you cant get sucked up in the game. 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. [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. She has been actively involved in politics after the completion of her graduation from Dartmouth . I tell her that I have been calling around to former coworkers and associates, trying to get a sense of how she operates. If you had any balls you would have said what I told you to say.. A text arrives from John Weaver, a top adviser to former Ohio Governor John Kasich. 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. They feel like if they dont respond within two minutes, that the crisis is going to fester. Riley Keough has been married to Australian stuntman Ben Smith-Petersen since 2015. And so my advice would just be, get out there more, especially with Kamala, go out there more. Buttigieg campaigns in Iowa shortly after officially announcing his bid for the Democratic nomination for president. Smith shot down a Post story claiming Sptizer was spotted kissing and sucking her toes while she was topless in a hot tub at a resort there. No. It is, she says, the only newspaper she subscribes to. 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. [36][37][38] She also has an active social media presence, through which she addresses political topics and factchecks statements by Republican politicians such as Mitt Romney. And that was our media strategy. This isnt going as planned., She continued: As soon as I got Hari on the line, he filled me in. The good candidates have humility. Were just not looking for them. [40], Smith dated Missouri politician Jeff Smith after meeting him at Dartmouth and handled some of his publicity during his campaign. And when it happened, the story was her. Smith: Im not going to say who. Click here. [19], In 2020, Smith was one of six political experts named as fellows by the Georgetown Institute of Politics and Public Service. His resignation came after it was discovered he had been involved with prostitutes. Hold on, Im sorry. And what Pete understood, and why I believed in him, was that to beat Trump, we didnt need to be him. So the Post is about to report that Im dating Eliot Spitzer. She knew Axelrod from 2012, when she worked as director of rapid response for President Barack Obamas reelection effort. POLITICO Weekend delivers gripping reads, smart analysis and a bit of high-minded fun. 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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. Ive always tried to be very grounded. But more broadly, they are diagnosing the ills of the party that paid their housing for years. I worked in states like South Dakota, Missouri, Ohio, Kentucky, Virginia. We would like to show you a description here but the site won't allow us. 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. Its a super-aggressive thing to do. 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. Politics is literally a matter of life and death. 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. And when he was asked about that, he gave a really strong answer, and he took responsibility for things he did do in South Bend or things he didnt do in South Bend. The former New York mayor later divorced his wife and was spotted in places like Montego Bay and a Knicks game cozying up with Smith. Dont miss it! She gravitates to candidates who are challenging and testing the status quo. He was out there. Theyre just not looking in the right places. Wren: Youre a very competitive person. Smith: I dont know, because I think one thing we saw was that he was pretty good about handling stuff. It was a reporter from BuzzFeed News, waiting to take my place. Oversaturation? In her book, Smith also called another client she worked for,ex-Gov. I was making the bet that I could run out the clock on disclosing our relationship until I got hired officially. There are probably dozens of Mayor Petes out there across the country. David Freedlander writes about politics and culture. 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. She recalled tellingde Blasio chief of staff Phil Walzak over drinks that she and Spitzer were a couple. 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. Part of it with him is the persona. She is a talented communicator. 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. But that didnt work out. If Id thought things couldnt have gotten worse, I was wrong, she said. Maybe a story that would be 80-20 bad you can get down to 60-40 bad, and that little bit is worth it.. I thought everybody knew that.. 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 professional life. Now more than ever, people are seeing politics touch everything in our lives. [7] As communications director for the DGA, she oversaw gubernatorial campaign efforts in Kentucky and West Virginia. Its a role that clearly lends itself to his skill set. [33][34][35] She has written for publications such as The New York Times, Vanity Fair and The Washington Post. Honesty is really, really important to handling a crisis because you have to have all the facts at your disposal. 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. You get a sense of the news, what is going to get picked up, she said, reaching into her bag for her copy of the Post, which she said she was saving for Buttigieg. In recent months you have made a name for yourself by working for this new crop of candidates out in the middle of the country: Michigan State Sen. Mallory McMorrow, Aftab Pureval and others. 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