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. 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. If you had any balls you would have said what I told you to say.. I had to deal with candidates who, unfortunately, did not give me all the facts, and you cant effectively handle a crisis. Not possible, Smith says. Win or lose, she's turned an unknown into a serious . "[29] Lloyd Green, writing for The Guardian, called it "breezy and informative. It gives me so much joy when I sit down for a Zoom with Mallory McMorrow which is supposed to be 15 minutes and it turns into two hours, and I get goosebumps again. Martin OMalley, who shed worked for, performing poorly in the Iowa caucuses. Theres just no one who can do a TV interview like Pete Buttigieg. They just get swallowed up by the next news cycle, and never reach the voters who matter anyway. A New York Post photographer had been surreptitiously posted outside my SoHo walkup apartment. A few weeks ago, a couple of hundred people expressed interest in this event. But it is kind of fascinating to watch., Smith met Buttigieg on the recommendation of Axelrod and former Maryland Governor Martin OMalley. From the second I met Pete, I knew that there was something special about him. Yeah. 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. You can unsubscribe at any time and you can contact us here. He was also married. 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. (For the record, I can totally envision him sitting on the floor singing Kumbaya just not for me. The spinmeister hooked up with the still-married luv guv after working on his failed comeback bid to become city comptroller in 2013. Did I think hed sit on the floor with me and sing Kumbaya and tell me it would be all okay? After the fundraiser, Smith and Buttigieg climb into an SUV and head to 30 Rock. We would like to show you a description here but the site won't allow us. I couldnt talk to the media, and they didnt lift a finger to defend me.. But I dont know whats inside him. 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 was my philosophy. 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. That even in the age of Twitter, that especially in the age of Twitter, people dont really care about gaffes. Smith: It made me want to be better at my job. 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. Your Bengals fandom and their Super Bowl run is a part of the book. Eight hundred have showed up. Ive always tried to be very grounded. 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. Im horrified. Smith: I think its been great. Wren: Did you have a good handle before the campaign on Petes vulnerabilities? Its really hard to do a hit piece on a guy who you are going to see the next morning over coffee and donuts, says Weaver. I have a really close-knit group of friends who have nothing to do with politics. 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.. Whats especially important to me, is, you know, making sure to take a lot of young women under my wing. 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. Critics of the IDC have questioned Smith's loyalty to the implementation of progressive policies and candidates. I remember hearing from other consultants, Why is he going out there speaking seven languages? By ERIN BANCO, GARRETT M. GRAFF, LARA SELIGMAN, NAHAL TOOSI and ALEXANDER WARD. Political strategist Lis Smith isnt a married woman, though she may one day decide to tie the knot with a lucky somebody. "[30] Some critics felt that it minimized her role in discrediting the sexual assault allegations against Cuomo. 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: In my experience, the best working relationships between candidates and their top staff often depend on a sort of yin-yang dynamic. And someone needs to be. What do I get if I pay for your consulting services? Maybe Im done. 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. Deciding to get into politics for me, and in the world of political operatives, was like jumping off a cliff. Other candidates, they dont need to do it. I, in those races, became extremely battle-tested. 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. Even in decline, AM radio matters more than you might think. 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. Copyright 2023 Market Realist. In some ways, he came across as a Midwestern dad before he was, in fact, a Midwestern dad. The national security site has found fresh energy as a savvy, progressive attack dog in national politics. Smith: Im not going to touch that with a 10-foot pole. 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. Did I think I was going to walk into his office and tell him that I was dating Eliot Spitzer? And I agree with him that you cant get sucked up in the game. And he is as squeaky clean behind the scenes as he is in front of the camera. Lis Smith entered politics after watching The War Room, the 1992 documentary about Bill Clinton's successful bid for the presidency. We needed to be the antidote to him. I know of one person in particular who said you were making a catastrophic career mistake working for a total nobody. 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. His resignation came after it was discovered he had been involved with prostitutes. Like we saw with Hillary Clinton, women are sometimes held to a different standard. It was written over a period of 18 months,[25] and covers her life and political career. The private Terry is a lot more low-key, and lot more humble, a lot more thoughtful. 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. I fucking love John McCain. She was also communications director for Dan Seals' 2008 Illinois House race. Hold on, Im sorry. [16] Business Insider considered her to be one of the 10 most powerful women running the 2020 presidential campaigns. The book was praised for its insight into the personal and political fortunes of politicians she advised. And I have a nice, quiet life where I dont live in Washington, D.C. ", Before they get in the car, I ask Buttigieg if Smith is being helpful in his campaign. [8], In 2012, she became director of the rapid response team for Obama's 2012 presidential campaign. Smith: You never say never. Pete Buttigieg emerges as Democratic rock star proclaimed Business Insider during the race. She was my girlfriend., Later, says Smith, when he was a state lawmaker, I would say to her, I am going to talk to such-and-such group, and she would tell me, This is what you should say. And I would say to her, Lis, I am not going to say that, its not my style, its not going to work. From the second I met Pete, I knew that there was something special about him. Wren: You and Pete have very different brands. 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 . This is what day one looks like. [17] She has been included in Fortune's 40 Under 40 in Government and Politics,[18] and Crain's list of the 50 Most Powerful Women in New York. Smith, who is a Bronx native, must be an intelligent woman, but going for the "bad boys" might . This sign-up form is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. Its an inherent conflict of interest. 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. They are doing things that are more directly relevant to peoples lives. It was younger reporters, super-hungry reporters that really know how to use Twitter, people who can then go to a cocktail party and tell their friends they had a beer with this guy Pete Buttigieg three hours from now. 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. I romanticize 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. She ran his campaign publicly by courting the national political press, a technique she further honed during Buttigieg's 2020 presidential campaign. He wrote a paper praising Bernie Sanders at Harvard? What makes him such a magnet for criticism on both the left and the right? She then switched to de Blasios general election campaign for mayor. Wren: What is your relationship with Pete like now? There were very, very few women in positions of power. 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. You dont reach out to the 35-year-old gay mayor of South Bend, Indiana, because you think it will be an easy ride.. Wren: One of your legacies is the coaching tree, to use an apt football metaphor, that you left behind on the Pete campaign. 8,310 Followers, 856 Following, 219 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Lis Smith (@lis__smith) 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. Dont miss it! Her plan is to emulate maybe the best-known and most successful insurgent move of recent campaign history: John McCains 2000 Straight Talk Express. Smith-Petersen held a protective arm around Keough's, 33, waist as he supported the actress on her first red carpet since the sudden death of her mother Lisa Marie Presley last month. 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. Former communications director, Pete Buttigieg's presidential campaign. What we did is fucking ridiculous. Some are even in the White House, like Deputy Press Secretary Chris Meagher, who briefed the press not too long ago. 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. 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. 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. But seriously. 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. Maybe a story that would be 80-20 bad you can get down to 60-40 bad, and that little bit is worth it.. Lis Smith on Pete Buttigieg's campaign bus during a four day tour of Iowa, September 23, 2019. Neither Eliot nor I was gonna win a gold medal in the not reckless competition at the Olympics. Yeah, I guess Id fallen in love with slightly problematic guy It wasnt like I was dating Ted BundyEliot was the former governor and attorney general of New York State, Smith said, referring to the serial killer. Market Realist is a registered trademark. I had that early rush of love on the brainI wasnt thinking clearly. It might not get you the votes, but I am not the political director. [42] The relationship ended her role in de Blasio's mayoral campaign after tabloids published stories about it. I should know: Last October, I had my own intimate, off-the-record encounter with Mayor Pete. From her days as a college intern for John Edwards to her own brush with the New York tabloids, the book traces her entertaining path to the height of the American political consultant class. Smith: Yeah. [2] In 2014, she became a communication consultant for Adriano Espaillat's congressional campaign. 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. 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 . Smith said she felt violated after learning she was being followed. Chuck Kennedy/PFA. Let Pete be Pete. Based on that experience, how should Democrats make gains in those kinds of states in 2022? I want people to know what its like behind the scenes. Id worked for former [Former Maryland Gov.] I worked in politics nine years before I ever moved to New York. Our resort was more Leave It to Beaver than Debbie Does Dallas,' she claimed. Wren: Youre a very competitive person. No. It will codify Roe v. Wade. The speed with which Buttegieg emerged has been astonishing, which happens to be the speed at which Smith works. Eliot Spitzer]. 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[2], She worked on Tom Daschle's 2004 Senate campaign as a field organizer. 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. The thing with Terry McAuliffe is that hes in on the joke. She has extensive experience in public affairs, media relations, and crisis communications at the local, state and national levels. Lis Smith, a Democratic communications operative, has written a memoir that pulls back the curtain on how campaigns are won and lost. And no, politics is my love. Smith double majored in government and anthropology at Dartmouth College, graduating in 2005. We met at the Roxy Hotel in Tribeca. Are you kidding me? Wren: You write pretty transparently in the book about times youve been fooled by a candidate. Smith: Democrats love to bitch that we dont have a bench. Lis knew that she had to build wide to build up, said Stephanie Cutter, who also worked on Obamas 2012 effort. Im joking. 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. Click here. Lis Smith is recording this call. Lis Smith is recording this call. The "Dame of Dish" passed away on Sunday. 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. 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. 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. She texts the buzziest bits to her sprawling network of journalistic contacts, who tweet them out. 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. Pete made us all show up to give our 100 percent at work made us all better at our jobs. 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. ), Smith quipped. Weve got that Joey Burrow swag, but he does have humility to him. Politics has a bias toward the status quo, she says. [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. He lives in New York. This story has been shared 151,667 times. 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. Smith: Thats hilarious. 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. You have to know the social media ecosystem, how people are sharing and consuming their news. But I compartmentalized this knowledge like other things in my life. At the newsstand around the corner, you could buy a New York magazine with Buttigiegs beatifically smiling face splashed across the cover, and a New York Times with an A1 story about his time at Harvard. The spotlight turns to Kamala Harris, the only Black candidate on stage. [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. This story has been shared 127,012 times. [2][9], Her role in the campaign was explored by the 2021 documentary film Mayor Pete. Between 1987 and 2013, Spitzer had been married to Silda Wall Spitzer. William C. Lopez After leaving the eatery at around 12:30 a.m., Smith gave Spitzer a flirtatious look over her shoulder before the . What is this new phase of your career about? She is the most competitive person I have ever known.. When they gave me the job I thought, first of all this job exists? [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. Eliot Spitzer's girlfriend Lis Smith, 31, has not been asked to take up a position in New York mayor Bill de Blasio's new City Hall team in the wake of her affair with the disgraced former governor. My end goalsbeing able to stay in New York with Eliot and serve as the New York City mayors press secretarywere in sight. 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. 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. Most people do have nerdy sides to them. She signed on as a consultant when he was laying the groundwork for a long-shot campaign to become the chair of the Democratic National Committee. In my book, I sort of get at this, but we are sort of an odd couple. Because even power needs a day off. A photo and audio tour of the hosts driving the conversation. [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. That is not how she ran his race. Photo: amyandstuart.com@AmyandStuart. He was thinking of running for chair of the Democratic National Committee. | The Buttigiegs announced last month that they were engaged in the adoption process. The New York tabs may have sharpened her game, but people who've known her for years say Smith came ready for the fight. I think that she gets a lot of unfair criticism. Now that they have achieved liftoff, as it were, Smith is preparing for the next part of the campaign. Even TMZ got in the act LEO DICAPRIO OFFERED BUTTIGIEG HELP DURING 2020 RUN, trumpeted the chyron. She wants to know if Id seen Buttigieg answer a question about the Notre Dame fire from a French TV station, in French. But the Post discovered where they were. And you dont know who is actually going to attack you. This interview has been edited for length and clarity. Smith: I dont know, because I think one thing we saw was that he was pretty good about handling stuff. 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. Theyre in the agencies. With her signature black bob, dark sunglasses, and red lipstick, Lis Smith cuts a striking figure in the world of politics . Smiths mother is a descendent of a signer of the Mayflower Compact, and a cousin of lead Watergate investigator Sam Ervin. 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. Wren: Youve worked in a lot of red states South Dakota, Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio. 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. 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. Elliot Spitzer (pictured), the election of Donald Trump and former Maryland Gov. Wants to know the social media ecosystem, how people are sharing and consuming their news ran. 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