Our resort was more Leave It to Beaver than Debbie Does Dallas,' she claimed. | While the affair may have been fun while it lasted, the two reportedly split in 2015, it cost Smith her job. 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 . Lis Smith was supposed to become de Blasio's press secretary until The Post revealed that she was dating former Gov. Smith tells Politico:. [2][9], Her role in the campaign was explored by the 2021 documentary film Mayor Pete. Theyre just not looking in the right places. She is practically shaking with excess energy. People read about my personal life in Page Six, and they think Im going to be sort of an out-there type of person that is attention seeking and all of that. She is a talented communicator. 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. You deploy the F-bomb like Picasso used drypoint. Its really hard to do a hit piece on a guy who you are going to see the next morning over coffee and donuts. 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. Miller is darkly. Lis has absolutely no fear, said Jeff Smith, a former Missouri lawmaker who dated Smith for four years and considers her one of his closest friends. No. She did, however, date a married. 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. The attack we had been dreading was coming. Other candidates, they dont need to do it. But that didnt work out. None of those races were particularly easy. Lis Smith is a veteran of twenty political campaigns. She was also communications director for Dan Seals' 2008 Illinois House race. She has been actively involved in politics after the completion of her graduation from Dartmouth . [24], Smith authored the 2022 book Any Given Tuesday: A Political Love Story. 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. John Edwards comes to mind. "[30] Some critics felt that it minimized her role in discrediting the sexual assault allegations against Cuomo. Through the DNC race and afterward, Smith treated the national political press like it was another constituency that needed to be courted. (The rapid-response job, Smith says, was for her like being a pig in shit. Your Bengals fandom and their Super Bowl run is a part of the book. [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. Before a debate, you have no idea how much gossip is going around. 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. Why? Obama had David Axelrod. Theyre out in country working on campaigns. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Thanks for contacting us. Click here. Its that everyday when I go into work to try and get these people elected its because it will impact lives. I thought everybody knew that.. Across the street, Brooklyn hipsters of all ages and manner of facial hair are lining up around the block at a bowling alley/music venue to catch Buttigieg at a fundraiser. [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. 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. Smith says thats worth it. But there may be no political couple odder than that of Buttigieg and Smith. 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. And although Smith would never say it, it plays on political reporters' narcissism, too. She ran it like he was trying to be president, getting him in front of as many microphones as she could. 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?. My advice is just go out there more, communicate more. And they all lack humility. He didnt feel the need to go out there and be the coolest guy or the hippest guy on stage. [40], Smith dated Missouri politician Jeff Smith after meeting him at Dartmouth and handled some of his publicity during his campaign. 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. Now more than ever, people are seeing politics touch everything in our lives. 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. [2], She worked on Tom Daschle's 2004 Senate campaign as a field organizer. In fact, other than Spitzer, Smith appears to have been flying solo for the last few years. He had stayed behind in an area where there was active conflict while she travelled on by herself. Terry McAuliffe, and President Barack Obama, Lis Smith is finally flacking for Lis Smith. And you know what their problem is? ET Political strategist Lis Smith isn't a married woman, though she may one day decide to tie the knot with a lucky somebody. [31][32], Smith is also known for her commentary and analysis of United States politics. Oftentimes its not going to be found in Washington, D.C. Wren: Tell me about that five percent credited to you. But I understand that what I do isnt just a game. Eliot Spitzer. 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. Smith: Youve got to meet voters where they are. Shes had some very forceful moments as vice president. 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. Win or lose in the 2020 Democratic campaign, Pete Buttigieg's senior adviser Lis Smith has turned an unknown mayor into a serious contender. Smith is now Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio's spokeswoman and is dating Spitzer. I think I am impressive because I am a violinist and I went to Dartmouth and I speak French and have traveled all over the world and, I dont know, I know a lot about great apes, she says. 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 knew that she had to build wide to build up, said Stephanie Cutter, who also worked on Obamas 2012 effort. The final indignity, she said, is that de Blasios team team wanted the statement to say her departure was unrelated to her dating Spitzer. They just get swallowed up by the next news cycle, and never reach the voters who matter anyway. Smith: We check in here and there. So I would obviously advise him not to respond. 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? There are probably dozens of Mayor Petes out there across the country. [43], Smith says she experiences stage fright. Cuomoresigned last August amid claims of sexual harassment and misconduct. E! She has a 3-day-old copy of the New York Post in her bag. Wren: Theres a part of Pete that is a little wonky, a little square. Its really fun. In that moment, in retrospect, it seems like Harris couldve ended Buttigiegs campaign. Smiths mother is a descendent of a signer of the Mayflower Compact, and a cousin of lead Watergate investigator Sam Ervin. 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. We are humble and kind, to quote Tim McGraw. 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. 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. Wren: Much has been made about Trump Derangement Syndrome this idea that, true or not, he scrambles rational political responses from otherwise reasonable people. Keep in mind she was 22 at the time, Smith said. . I have a really close-knit group of friends who have nothing to do with politics. She advised a couple of governors still left in office, and started taking on more nonprofit clients. 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. 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. She is 36, a year younger than Buttigieg, which, Thank God. 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. I remember hearing from other consultants, Why is he going out there speaking seven languages? [2][9] She later worked as the spokeswoman for Bill de Blasio's mayoral run in 2013. Most people do have corny sides to them. What makes him such a magnet for criticism on both the left and the right? 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. Smith: Thats hilarious. I was making the bet that I could run out the clock on disclosing our relationship until I got hired officially. 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. They are doing things that are more directly relevant to peoples lives. Smith, who is a Bronx native, must be an intelligent woman, but going for the "bad boys" might . Smith: Oh, thats simple. Okay, so Im working for tabloid target #1 in Bill de Blasio. 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You dont reach out to the 35-year-old gay mayor of South Bend, Indiana, because you think it will be an easy ride.. 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. My observation, said Axelrod, who worked with Smith on Obamas 2012 reelection campaign, is that she is the quiet hero of his emergence.. Wren: What do you look for in a candidate? In the car, wed go back and forth on random trivia, and pulling up things on Google. 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. And what Pete understood, and why I believed in him, was that to beat Trump, we didnt need to be him. 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. Spitzer and Smith stayed together for more than two years, with the tabloids following them pretty much the whole time. This isnt going as planned., She continued: As soon as I got Hari on the line, he filled me in. Bill de Blasio, too. She then switched to de Blasios general election campaign for mayor. Like we saw with Hillary Clinton, women are sometimes held to a different standard. 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. All Rights Reserved. Wren: Youve worked in a lot of red states South Dakota, Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio. [2] In 2014, she became a communication consultant for Adriano Espaillat's congressional campaign. She has extensive experience in public affairs, media relations, and crisis communications at the local, state and national levels. You can unsubscribe at any time and you can contact us here. Lis Smith, Buttigieg's top communications adviser . | The good candidates have humility. Politics is really personal to me. [4] In 2006, she went to work on Claire McCaskill's Senate campaign in Missouri. 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. He doesnt yell and scream, take the most extreme positions on issues, or tweet incendiary things. I had a beerhe stuck to waterand we talked about his political ambitions and the state of the Democratic Party and why Trump won. But there have been a few times when Ive been around him when I knew something, a factoid or something he didnt know, and let me tell you, I fucking lord it all over him. What do all the good candidates youve worked for have in common, and what do the bad candidates have in common? Also how many, like, mind-games campaigns are playing with others. He was also married. You never get in a fight with someone whos trying to promote a book. Chuck Kennedy/PFA. These days, Smith seems to be heavily involved in promoting her new book. After 20 campaigns flacking for candidates such as Transportation Secretary and former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg, former Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill, former Virginia Gov. Because 2015 and 2016 were really difficult times in my life. Before getting involved with Spitzer, Smith allegedly became romantic with Jeff Smith, who she reportedly met at Dartmouth while he was working as her professor. Because he was a badass. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. One thing I find incredibly admirable about him is what you see is what you get. My mood changed when the Post story popped. Buttigieg campaigns in Iowa shortly after officially announcing his bid for the Democratic nomination for president. She puts the word fuck through every part of speech the word can be bent into: noun, pronoun, gerund, verb, term of endearment, sobriquet, epithet, honorific. I want Republicans to read this book. The more people see Bill de Blasio, the less they like him. 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. 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. What I realized from my time working in politics is how much mystery there still is around this industry. 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.. 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. When I stood up and left the table, Buttigieg stayed, and I recognized a woman sitting at the bar. It is, she says, the only newspaper she subscribes to. Because he completely disrupts the idea of what a successful younger politician is. Martin OMalley, who shed worked for, performing poorly in the Iowa caucuses. 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. Smith, standing behind Buttigieg as he campaigns at various events in New York this April. | James Devaney/GC Images. Lis Smith (born October 15, 1982) is an American political strategist affiliated with the Democratic Party. A photo and audio tour of the hosts driving the conversation. A lot of people people whose opinion you respect told you that you were nuts when you chose to work for Pete. Smith: In my experience, the best working relationships between candidates and their top staff often depend on a sort of yin-yang dynamic. There was only one path for us to break through. 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. 8,310 Followers, 856 Following, 219 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Lis Smith (@lis__smith) Wren: What is your relationship with Pete like now? They need to understand how the political process works. 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. Political strategist Lis Smith reveals in her new book how The Post exposed that she was dating prostitution-loving former Gov. The American, democratic campaign communication specialist Lis Smith is a well-known face in American politics. `Jesus, you always keep it interesting.'. Honesty is really, really important to handling a crisis because you have to have all the facts at your disposal. Inside the Shrinking Newsroom of the Paper That Shapes the PrimariesBy Tim Alberta. It was a long shot. Political strategist Lis Smith isnt a married woman, though she may one day decide to tie the knot with a lucky somebody. 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. [44] She describes herself as an "oyster-tarian," which she defines as a vegetarian who will eat oysters. 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. [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 had moved to New York in 2013 to work for Eliot Spitzer, the disgraced former governor who had stepped down in a prostitution scandal. [11][12] In 2018, Smith became spokeswoman for Andrew Cuomo's successful re-election campaign, who had endorsed the political entity. She most recently worked as a senior advisor in communications to presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg. He has a clear social consciousness to him that you dont see in a lot of professional athletes. February 5, 2020 younolly Biography 0. [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. He was out there. But seriously. And that was our media strategy. Pete Buttigieg emerges as Democratic rock star proclaimed Business Insider during the race. Lets be real, Adam. She figured that Buttigiegs sexual orientation and impossible-to-pronounce last name rendered him dead on arrival, but started researching the 35-year-old Indiana mayor and promptly took an eight-hour fall down a Google rabbit hole. POLITICO Weekend delivers gripping reads, smart analysis and a bit of high-minded fun. | 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? Hold on, Im sorry. I am a liberal Democrat, but I was so into the McCain thing. She texts the buzziest bits to her sprawling network of journalistic contacts, who tweet them out. TV news executives are calling, she says, emailing, now complaining that Buttigieg isnt doing their shows often enough. Lis Smith is recording this call. 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. 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.. As someone who was a mayor who was on the ground, who knows how important this stuff is, hes a great messenger to send out there to these smaller media markets everywhere, where he can meet with the mayors, speak to them in their language, help make sure that theyre getting the resources they need. So what I try to do is to meet candidates where they are, and to help work with them on what their strengths are and not to erase the things in them that are quirky or not, but see if we can use them as assets. 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. Smith said she felt violated after learning she was being followed. [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. Smith: All the good candidates are comfortable in their own skin. Smith double majored in government and anthropology at Dartmouth College, graduating in 2005. And you just like have this moment, where youre like, Maybe this is it. Letting Claire be Claire. Riley Keough has been married to Australian stuntman Ben Smith-Petersen since 2015. Wed gone down to Jamaica to get away from tabloid drama, not actively court it, Smith said. Smith ended up dropping most of her other clients, politicians and nonprofits alike. I had gone through this awful breakup [with former New York Gov. Shes on her phone talking to another Buttigieg aide. 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. The Simpsons actress Yeardley Smith is newly married and she and her husband have quite the . This interview has been edited for length and clarity. Did I think hed sit on the floor with me and sing Kumbaya and tell me it would be all okay? 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. The guy didnt have time to say hello before Smith could hear screaming over the line. It was by no means an obvious career move for Smith. From the second I met Pete, I knew that there was something special about him. She knew Axelrod from 2012, when she worked as director of rapid response for President Barack Obamas reelection effort. Smith: Yeah. But to me it was more just revealing [the] nature of the sliding doors of campaigns, and I think thats what youre getting at. [7] As communications director for the DGA, she oversaw gubernatorial campaign efforts in Kentucky and West Virginia. I first met John Edwards when I was 19 or 20 years old. I want him on everything, she told me. How much of his success was because of you, and how much was because of him? 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. She wants to know if Id seen Buttigieg answer a question about the Notre Dame fire from a French TV station, in French. Other people could blame it on naivete, I cant.. 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.. She and Spitzer then jetted to Jamaica to get away from the media frenzy. 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. 20 2022, Published 11:56 a.m. But they did teach me the importance of always making sure that candidates are reflecting the values of their voters. Smith said she learned a hard lesson: Even a professional cant try to manage a personal crisis without help. He was a once-in-a-generation talent, someone who perfectly met the moment, says Smith. He was a once-in-a-generation talent, someone who perfectly met the moment. I romanticize it. Maybe a story that would be 80-20 bad you can get down to 60-40 bad, and that little bit is worth it.. Not to be cheesy, but it is one of my proudest accomplishments. He knows the importance of building up our bench. The whole saga also taught her the rhythms of the New York tabloids, which have similarities to the national political press. I dont live and breathe politics every day. 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