She was also communications director for Dan Seals' 2008 Illinois House race. And yet you signed on anyway. [6] She became communications director for the Democratic Governors Association in 2011. 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. She doesnt give a fuck. POLITICO Weekend flies into inboxes every Friday. Smith starts texting me, wanting to know if Id seen the celebrities in the audience, including George Takei, Kal Penn and Kate McKinnon. 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. That is not how she ran his race. Wren: Youve worked in a lot of red states South Dakota, Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio. [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. While her work history list might be lengthy, her dating track record isnt very long. And also keep in mind she was wasnt working on my campaign. Oftentimes its not going to be found in Washington, D.C. Hes someone I ask for advice. 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? I was coming off some New York races where everything is just all-day personal attacks getting in the mud. Spitzer and Smith stayed together for more than two years, with the tabloids following them pretty much the whole time. 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. | James Devaney/GC Images. He knows the importance of building up our bench. My end goalsbeing able to stay in New York with Eliot and serve as the New York City mayors press secretarywere in sight. It wasnt just the biggest names, people you know, Smith says. 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. I, in those races, became extremely battle-tested. Running for politics theres got to be a little element of narcissism or whatever you want to call it in you. 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. The spinmeister hooked up with the still-married luv guv after working on his failed comeback bid to become city comptroller in 2013. It has been my passion since I was nine years old, which sounds sick. Adam Wren is national politics correspondent at POLITICO. In some ways, he came across as a Midwestern dad before he was, in fact, a Midwestern dad. Click here. I am here to get you clips. Smith: Dont make me praise Chris Meagher. Even people like Terry McAuliffe and Claire McCaskill, who both have outsized personalities. From the second I met Pete, I knew that there was something special about him. In the past several months, Buttigieg has been not just all over cable and in the newspapers, but in Our Daily Planet, an environmental morning newsletter with just over 5,000 Twitter followers; in a financial planning podcast called Pete the Planner; and on West Wing Weekly, the obsessive episode-by-episode podcast breakdown of The West Wing. James Devaney/Getty Images. But Joe Biden is president today, and Kamala Harris is his vice president. 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. I lost the media war thatId thought I commanded, Smith said. [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. Wren: One of your legacies is the coaching tree, to use an apt football metaphor, that you left behind on the Pete campaign. The speed with which Buttegieg emerged has been astonishing, which happens to be the speed at which Smith works. 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. February 5, 2020 younolly Biography 0. I think Ive heard Pete use the F-word once or twice, for example, and his personal life doesnt play out in the pages of the New York tabloids. So I wanted to write a book to tell people, Hey, if you want to know what politics is like the ins and outs, the good, bad, and the ugly this is a book for you.. Lis Smith, the political communications specialist who helped bring Buttigieg to national prominence before he became President Joe Biden's Transportation secretary, revealed the decision in an . And its something that forever Ill be thankful to him for. In a tweet shared on July 20, 2022, Jeff praised Smith for the publication of her insightful book., Talked @Morning_Joe about why I wrote Any Given Tuesday: "More than ever we need people to believe in the political processPolitics is more important than ever. (For the record, I can totally envision him sitting on the floor singing Kumbaya just not for me. Other people could blame it on naivete, I cant.. We've received your submission. Tim Miller, my friend, wrote a great book weeks ago, where he talks about the danger of getting sucked up in the game. Smith said she felt violated after learning she was being followed. Lis knew that she had to build wide to build up, said Stephanie Cutter, who also worked on Obamas 2012 effort. I would do that for free.). 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. 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. The guy didnt have time to say hello before Smith could hear screaming over the line. Pete made us all show up to give our 100 percent at work made us all better at our jobs. 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Id worked for former [Former Maryland Gov.] As a thirty-something mayor of a medium-size city, Buttigieg faced a credibility threshold with the national press. 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. She is not letting Buttigieg read her book, Any Given Tuesday: A Political Love Story, ahead of publication day. Because he completely disrupts the idea of what a successful younger politician is. Youve got this hard-nosed New York-style political operative and this friendly Hoosier mayor, he said. Smith, standing behind Buttigieg as he campaigns at various events in New York this April. [21][22][23] In 2022, Smith became a communications adviser for Michigan State Senator Mallory McMorrow. He lives in New York. I cant believe you didnt know that! I really did feel he treated me as an equal. Now more than ever, people are seeing politics touch everything in our lives. But you know, more importantly, through some trial and error, over this very long career, I learned the importance of letting candidates be candidates, right? He was a once-in-a-generation talent, someone who perfectly met the moment. The good candidates have humility. [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. The Simpsons actress Yeardley Smith is newly married and she and her husband have quite the . | When I was starting in politics, we didnt have women. I tell her that I have been calling around to former coworkers and associates, trying to get a sense of how she operates. They have one man to thank. Eliot Spitzer while working for incoming Mayor Bill de Blasio. 20 2022, Published 11:56 a.m. What else was the oppo they were dropping? | 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. 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 . 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. They have grown to like and trust each other. Politics has a bias toward the status quo, she says. Wren: Youre often credited with vaulting Pete from the mayor of Indianas fourth-largest city to a member of Bidens cabinet. It wasnt an ideal situation, but it taught me a lot, Smith says. It will codify Roe v. Wade. 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. While working for the Obama campaign she met David Axelrod, whom Smith considers a mentor. He was out there. [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. It was a slim path. Other candidates, they dont need to do it. She texts the buzziest bits to her sprawling network of journalistic contacts, who tweet them out. It will hopefully make the cost of prescription drugs go down, or cut the price of insulin. 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. When you do more interviews, it reduces that gotcha instinct with the press, it reduces that cat and mouse game. There were very, very few women in positions of power. Its an inherent conflict of interest. A few weeks ago, a couple of hundred people expressed interest in this event. But that didnt work out. 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. [9][41] From 2013 to 2015, she had a relationship with her former boss, New York governor Eliot Spitzer. In that moment, in retrospect, it seems like Harris couldve ended Buttigiegs campaign. Shes a Black half-South-Indian woman. 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. 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.. The Post ran the exclusive photos of Spitzer ducking in and out of the Soho walk-up. ), Smith quipped. 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. Win or lose, she's turned an unknown into a serious . She dated former Missouri State Sen. Jeff Smith from 2005 to 2009, before he was locked up in a federal pen for obstruction after a probe of the state's 2004 election. Candidates and the people around them can get so spun up about things, and when you get spun up you make the worst mistakes, she says. Theyre in the agencies. The more people see Bill de Blasio, the less they like him. I have a really close-knit group of friends who have nothing to do with politics. 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: All the good candidates are comfortable in their own skin. Im just going to leave it there because I thought it was funny. Its that everyday when I go into work to try and get these people elected its because it will impact lives. 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. 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. How did that manifest itself with Pete, the first candidate youve ever advised who was approximately the same age as you? It may look like the sky is falling, but just ride this out.. Dont miss it! which Politico Magazine excerpted last week. 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. Im horrified. Chuck Kennedy/PFA. It was a long shot. 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. 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. And it was the first time Id worked in politics that Id ever felt that way. [24], Smith authored the 2022 book Any Given Tuesday: A Political Love Story. It was Lis telling me I need to fire my campaign manager, that the guy is a fucking idiot. Petes hitting at this moment in part because of the legwork they did. Wren: What is your relationship with Pete like now? Click here. 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. 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. I know youre asking it in good faith, but I am declining to answer it in good faith. She ran his campaign publicly by courting the national political press, a technique she further honed during Buttigieg's 2020 presidential campaign. My mood changed when the Post story popped. Wren: You write pretty transparently in the book about times youve been fooled by a candidate. What is this new phase of your career about? Ive always tried to be very grounded. The photographer had captured Eliot and me exchanging loving looks as wed returned from a late-night dinner at a restaurant on my block.. He hung up and looked at me in horror, and then my phone started ringing. 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 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. | 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. E! Miller is darkly. This story has been shared 102,835 times. Sign up for POLITICO Magazines email of the weeks best, delivered to your inbox every Friday morning. Win or lose in the 2020 Democratic campaign, Pete Buttigieg's senior adviser Lis Smith has turned an unknown mayor into a serious contender. Eliot Spitzer while working for incoming Mayor Bill de Blasio.. Theyre just not looking in the right places. The savvy strategist then had to figure out how to break the news to de Blasio and his camp, as their soon-to-be City Hall press secretary was now at the center of her own juicy tabloid scandal. He did. 90 minutes with one of America's top political consultants. That even in the age of Twitter, that especially in the age of Twitter, people dont really care about gaffes. (The rapid-response job, Smith says, was for her like being a pig in shit. [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. I think we saw that Kamalas attack on Biden was obviously was pretty pointed. Before a debate, you have no idea how much gossip is going around. I dont live and breathe politics every day. Riley Keough's husband, Ben Smith-Petersen, revealed the couple welcomed a baby girl while he gave a speech on behalf of his wife during a memorial service for Lisa Marie Presley on Sunday By. After McCaskill's win, she joined the 2007 Kentucky gubernatorial campaign of Bruce Lunsford and Greg Stumbo as traveling press secretary. 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. The private Terry is a lot more low-key, and lot more humble, a lot more thoughtful. She most recently worked as a senior advisor in communications to presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg. [2] In 2013, she moved back to New York and became the press secretary for Eliot Spitzer's New York City comptroller campaign, an attempted political comeback after his prostitution scandal. Smith: Thats hilarious. You dont reach out to the 35-year-old gay mayor of South Bend, Indiana, because you think it will be an easy ride.. He laid out his case for how a millennial municipal official from a town the size of a New York City Council district could somehow seize the Democratic nomination. I wasnt born yesterday. He wrote a paper praising Bernie Sanders at Harvard? She had an "itch," the political consultant writes in her. Spitzer, at the time, was attempting to regain his footing in politics after resigning from his position in 2008. Now that they have achieved liftoff, as it were, Smith is preparing for the next part of the campaign. Except then it didnt. 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. But I love politics because it touches everything in our lives. 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. One thing I find incredibly admirable about him is what you see is what you get. Politics is literally a matter of life and death. I think thats probably the biggest misconception about me. Terry McAuliffe, and President Barack Obama, Lis Smith is finally flacking for Lis Smith. Not long after that, at the presidential primary debate in Miami on June 27, you take us inside the greenroom backstage as you watched Pete get asked about this incredibly fraught moment. Smith says thats worth it. I consider him a friend . Smith: Democrats love to bitch that we dont have a bench. Thats a pretty ballsy thing to do. I see Donald Trump win the White House, which like everyone else, Im flabbergasted. [2][9] She later worked as the spokeswoman for Bill de Blasio's mayoral run in 2013. Wren: Youre a very competitive person. Part of it with him is the persona. We met at the Roxy Hotel in Tribeca. "[30] Some critics felt that it minimized her role in discrediting the sexual assault allegations against Cuomo. Jul. Smith is now Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio's spokeswoman and is dating Spitzer. When Smith signed on to help Mayor Pete run for DNC chair, it was a part-time gighelping a candidate nobody had ever heard of run for an insider position, the kind of job decided not by the public, but in backrooms by the most hardcore party loyalists. 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. Theyre out in country working on campaigns. 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. And so my advice would just be, get out there more, especially with Kamala, go out there more. I couldnt talk to the media, and they didnt lift a finger to defend me.. He's on his way into a black car to do Maddow. The "Dame of Dish" passed away on Sunday. And I am,' Smith toldWalzak. She has a 3-day-old copy of the New York Post in her bag. 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. Because even power needs a day off. She has extensive experience in public affairs, media relations, and crisis communications at the local, state and national levels. 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. 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. It is a matter of life and death and we need every person on the field pic.twitter.com/LPqIS3zjnW. And that was our media strategy. And when it happened, the story was her. Buttigieg reignited Smiths love for politics, she says, after a really difficult 2015 and 2016 due to her breakup with former New York Gov. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. What we did is fucking ridiculous. He was a once-in-a-generation talent, someone who perfectly met the moment, says Smith. Your Bengals fandom and their Super Bowl run is a part of the book. Oh really, you didnt know that? Eight hundred have showed up. 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. | Elijah Nouvelage/REUTERS. Smiths mother is a descendent of a signer of the Mayflower Compact, and a cousin of lead Watergate investigator Sam Ervin. Lis Smith Wiki Bio: Age, Husband, Net Worth, Children, Education, Career, Family, LinkedIn. 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. Smith could hear screaming over the line expressed interest in this event all-day personal attacks in. Up for POLITICO Magazines email of the Soho walk-up at work made us better! 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