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. [19], In 2021, Smith worked closely with then-governor Andrew Cuomo, and advised him on how to respond to the sexual harassment allegations against him. Im realistic here. Buttigieg campaigns in Iowa shortly after officially announcing his bid for the Democratic nomination for president. She texts the buzziest bits to her sprawling network of journalistic contacts, who tweet them out. 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. Of course, then I would, Id get a tepid reception and she would never let me hear the end of it. Its why in one day we do CBS Sunday Morning, The View, Teen Vogue and the New Yorker. 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. Buttigieg reignited Smiths love for politics, she says, after a really difficult 2015 and 2016 due to her breakup with former New York Gov. Can I tell you something very off the record, she texts. Less than 24 hours after announcing the end of his marriage, former Gov. Theyre just not looking in the right places. The scandal would serve as a distraction for both Smith and mayor-elect de Blasio but the political crisis communications guru thought she could ride out the storm. 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.. Thats a pretty ballsy thing to do. 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. News has confirmed her daughter Riley Keough welcomed a daughter with husband Ben Smith-Petersen, who mentioned their child at the singer's. 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. Oh really, you didnt know that? 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. 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. 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. 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. 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 . 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. Both Miller and Smith come off as quasi-heros, semi-savants, pseudo-sociologists. [44] Smith plays the violin.[44]. This story has been shared 127,012 times. It was in 2013, the time when Smith was working for the de Blasio campaign, that she began dating Eliot Spitzer. 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. Its sad, but our politics isnt built to deal with people who are reasonable. This interview has been edited for length and clarity. He's on his way into a black car to do Maddow. You couldnt have pulled off that strategy with a Bill de Blasio. But they did teach me the importance of always making sure that candidates are reflecting the values of their voters. Wren: What do you look for in a candidate? It is a matter of life and death and we need every person on the field pic.twitter.com/LPqIS3zjnW. Petes hitting at this moment in part because of the legwork they did. There may be nobody more central to Mayor Pete's media successbesides the candidate himself, and arguably his social-media-savvy husband, Chasten Buttigiegthan Smith, who serves as a. Smith: Yeah. In my book, I sort of get at this, but we are sort of an odd couple. The whole saga also taught her the rhythms of the New York tabloids, which have similarities to the national political press. But it has a clear parallel to Smiths relentless scheduling of meetings between Buttigieg and reportersan audaciously direct way to connect with reporters that bought the campaign pretty good press. Why would a Pete Buttigieg hire me? And when it happened, the story was her. I know youre asking it in good faith, but I am declining to answer it in good faith. Hes going to sound so elitist. Or: Why does he have to answer every question with a proverb? Voters can smell when candidates are being authentic, and when candidates are not. 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. Smith said she felt violated after learning she was being followed. Shes had some very forceful moments as vice president. Wed gone down to Jamaica to get away from tabloid drama, not actively court it, Smith said. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Thanks for contacting us. Smith says thats worth it. Eliot Spitzer while working for incoming Mayor Bill de Blasio.. Elliot Spitzer (pictured), the election of Donald Trump and former Maryland Gov. New transcripts and . 90 minutes with one of America's top political consultants. [16] Business Insider considered her to be one of the 10 most powerful women running the 2020 presidential campaigns. [21][22][23] In 2022, Smith became a communications adviser for Michigan State Senator Mallory McMorrow. After McCaskill's win, she joined the 2007 Kentucky gubernatorial campaign of Bruce Lunsford and Greg Stumbo as traveling press secretary. 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." And also keep in mind she was wasnt working on my campaign. Its just a personal part of my book. Eliot Spitzer while working for incoming Mayor Bill de Blasio. 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. A report by New York Attorney General Letitia James showed that Smith was working behind the scenes to protect Cuomo from the allegations. 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. Then there was what I did next: jumped off the cliff. 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. [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. 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. Its really hard to do a hit piece on a guy who you are going to see the next morning over coffee and donuts. With her signature black bob, dark sunglasses, and red lipstick, Lis Smith cuts a striking figure in the world of politics . People may receive compensation for some links to products and services on this website. | James Devaney/GC Images. It may look like the sky is falling, but just ride this out.. I am a liberal Democrat, but I was so into the McCain thing. When I stood up and left the table, Buttigieg stayed, and I recognized a woman sitting at the bar. And when I began asking around to figure out who was behind that strategy, the same name kept coming up: Lis Smith. A lot of people thought that to beat Trump, you had to be Trump. 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. This is how we stop there from being a day three. He has a clear social consciousness to him that you dont see in a lot of professional athletes. [8], In 2012, she became director of the rapid response team for Obama's 2012 presidential campaign. As a thirty-something mayor of a medium-size city, Buttigieg faced a credibility threshold with the national press. Overtime: David Duchovny, Matt Taibbi, Lis Smith | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO) Real Time with Bill Maher 2.54M subscribers Subscribe 11K Share 913K views 6 months ago Subscribe to the Real. Smith starts texting me, wanting to know if Id seen the celebrities in the audience, including George Takei, Kal Penn and Kate McKinnon. Wren: How is Harris doing as a communicator? That is not how she ran his race. Pete asked the bouncer what the scene was like inside, and the bouncer told him it was lit. The term was lost on him. 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. Inside the Shrinking Newsroom of the Paper That Shapes the PrimariesBy Tim Alberta. Terry McAuliffe, and President Barack Obama, Lis Smith is finally flacking for Lis Smith. But it is kind of fascinating to watch., Smith met Buttigieg on the recommendation of Axelrod and former Maryland Governor Martin OMalley. I think its just shaped up to be a perfect role for him. That even in the age of Twitter, that especially in the age of Twitter, people dont really care about gaffes. I am here to get you clips. [The vice presidency] is probably the toughest, most thankless job in Washington D.C. Wren: How is the Lis Smith depicted in this book different from the Lis Smith in the popular political imagination? She is not letting Buttigieg read her book, Any Given Tuesday: A Political Love Story, ahead of publication day. I cant believe you didnt know that! I was blindly ambitious, versus blindly loyal, and where the shiny object of being a New York City press secretary was more alluring to me that I was willing to overlook his very clear deficiencies. She did, however, date a married man while serving as a campaign aide to former New York Mayor Bill de Blasio. Smith a Bengals fan believes quarterback Joe Burrow is a great leader with a clear social conscience, and she wouldnt rule out the possibility of him having a political career. They need to understand how the political process works. In real life, I have a really close-knit family. Most people do have earnest sides to them. After the fundraiser, Smith and Buttigieg climb into an SUV and head to 30 Rock. And so my advice would just be, get out there more, especially with Kamala, go out there more. But that didnt work out. 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. 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. No. My end goalsbeing able to stay in New York with Eliot and serve as the New York City mayors press secretarywere in sight. Lis Smith is recording this call. That means that shes held to a different standard than sometimes other candidates. 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. The attack we had been dreading was coming. Jul. This is what day one looks like. Pete was completely different. [9] Smith was credited with implementing a campaign strategy that emphasized one-on-one interactions between Buttigieg and the press which helped raise his profile from the mayor of the fourth-largest Indiana city to a top-tier presidential candidate. I tell her that I have been calling around to former coworkers and associates, trying to get a sense of how she operates. You dont reach out to the 35-year-old gay mayor of South Bend, Indiana, because you think it will be an easy ride.. Dont miss it! But he is also the kind of person journalists tend to like: bookish, somehow earnest with a sense of irony, and willing to talk the way journalists like people to talk, playing the pundit and getting into the political process and discussing his own ambitions. 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. Rather than going after Pete, Harris trained her fire on Biden.. Lis Smith (born October 15, 1982) is an American political strategist affiliated with the Democratic Party. Maybe they wont focus on the former reigning champion [Spitzer], for once. 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. Okay, so Im working for tabloid target #1 in Bill de Blasio. And its something that forever Ill be thankful to him for. [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. Obama had David Axelrod. Regular voters and the media were primed for it.. 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. When I was starting in politics, we didnt have women. Tim Miller, my friend, wrote a great book weeks ago, where he talks about the danger of getting sucked up in the game. Jason Bergman for POLITICO. From the second I met Pete, I knew that there was something special about him. And it was the first time Id worked in politics that Id ever felt that way. 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. I really did feel he treated me as an equal. While her work history list might be lengthy, her dating track record isnt very long. The national security site has found fresh energy as a savvy, progressive attack dog in national politics. She did, however, date a married. Maybe Im done. When I met him was right after Trump won the election, and Democrats are running around with their hair on fire for good reason. He was also married. They lead with emotion. 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. 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. She ran it like he was trying to be president, getting him in front of as many microphones as she could. I had gone through this awful breakup [with former New York Gov. There is nothing too big for her. Letting Terry be Terry. The White House Correspondents Dinner is shrinking back to the boring awards ceremony journalists claimed to prefer. Smith is 31; a Dartmouth graduate who apparently has a thing for bad boys. 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. Copyright 2023 Market Realist. Its an inherent conflict of interest. Why? While the affair may have been fun while it lasted, the two reportedly split in 2015, it cost Smith her job. [Smiths voice breaks here.] 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. She has extensive experience in public affairs, media relations, and crisis communications at the local, state and national levels. February 5, 2020 younolly Biography 0. ", Before they get in the car, I ask Buttigieg if Smith is being helpful in his campaign. It has been my passion since I was nine years old, which sounds sick. There is this thing that I have to be very honest with, because maybe I had been seen as a little radioactive because I had unwillingly had my private life spread all over the tabloids, more established candidates might not have hired me. [2][11], She was the deputy campaign manager for the Martin O'Malley 2016 presidential campaign. Well, of course someone running for president would need to talk about it with me first, right? It was from Montego Bay that Smith and de Blasio announced she would not be joining his administration. Pete has no battle scars. Smith had moved to New York in 2013 to work for Eliot Spitzer, the disgraced former governor who had stepped down in a prostitution scandal. The speed with which Buttegieg emerged has been astonishing, which happens to be the speed at which Smith works. How has it turned out so far? In the car, wed go back and forth on random trivia, and pulling up things on Google. 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. Smith: Democrats love to bitch that we dont have a bench. | Tommy McArdle. I have talked to all the guys who see in the shots. Smith: One of the reasons I wanted to write this book was because when I was thinking at 19 or 20 about getting into this world, [a book like this] didnt exist. 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. One thing I find incredibly admirable about him is what you see is what you get. I see that being taken so far out of context. After O'Malley's campaign, she advised several nonprofit organizations, and incumbent governors such as Montana governor Steve Bullock. They are already well-known.. With Bill de Blasio, that was a different situation. Published on July 13, 2022 06:12 PM. [43], Smith says she experiences stage fright. [39] Time and Politico included her on their lists of the best political Twitter feeds. Lis Smith: My favorite was one person asking me if I lost a bet or something. He was thinking of running for chair of the Democratic National Committee. Other people could blame it on naivete, I cant.. Smith: All the good candidates are comfortable in their own skin. She is the most competitive person I have ever known.. It might not get you the votes, but I am not the political director. She and Spitzer then jetted to Jamaica to get away from the media frenzy. 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. At that point, reporters she had developed relationships with began to reach out, wondering what she was doing wasting her credibility on a little-known character who seemed like a step down the ladder of political prospects. And although Smith would never say it, it plays on political reporters' narcissism, too. 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. She is a talented communicator. Spitzer, at the time, was attempting to regain his footing in politics after resigning from his position in 2008. Now more than ever, people are seeing politics touch everything in our lives. 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. [4] In 2006, she went to work on Claire McCaskill's Senate campaign in Missouri. 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.. That is not the typical relationship of adviser to political principal, but typical is not a word people use about Smith. Details of that relationship were first brought to light by various media outlets and then, in Smiths recently debuted memoir, Any Given Tuesday: A Political Love Story. David Freedlander writes about politics and culture. Honesty is really, really important to handling a crisis because you have to have all the facts at your disposal. Cuomoresigned last August amid claims of sexual harassment and misconduct. It is, she says, the only newspaper she subscribes to. 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. Otherwise, I would kill myself. Which is to say that Buttigieg may know seven languages and carry around Ulysses and sit in with the South Bend Orchestra on piano, but as far as his top aide is concerned, it is only because he has an extra year on her. Does something like Buttigieg Derangement Syndrome exist? 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. And then what?, she thought to herself. Lets be real, Adam. A New York Post photographer had been surreptitiously posted outside my SoHo walkup apartment. And what Pete understood, and why I believed in him, was that to beat Trump, we didnt need to be him. He weighed in after the Supreme Court decision. None of those races were particularly easy. 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 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. You deploy the F-bomb like Picasso used drypoint. She most recently worked as a senior advisor in communications to presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg. He knows the importance of building up our bench. His resignation came after it was discovered he had been involved with prostitutes. Smith: Youve got to meet voters where they are. 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. 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. I think hes a really good person. But it was one of those moments where I had to go with my gut. Sign up for our newsletter. Smith: Dont make me praise Chris Meagher. Smith: Yes. In what ways does your brand benefit from Petes, and in what ways does Petes brand benefit from yours? Wren: He rehabilitated you and taught you to love the political process again. Pete Buttigieg emerges as Democratic rock star proclaimed Business Insider during the race. 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Still, she still sought to rationalize her relationship with Spitzer. 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. I wasnt born yesterday. And they all lack humility. 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? Im horrified. I want him on everything, she told me. Each was the political id the candidate couldnt, or wouldnt, express. 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 a long shot. They are doing things that are more directly relevant to peoples lives. [11][12] In 2018, Smith became spokeswoman for Andrew Cuomo's successful re-election campaign, who had endorsed the political entity. 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