Craig F. Walker/The Boston Globe via Getty Images. I think we saw that Kamalas attack on Biden was obviously was pretty pointed. Offers may be subject to change without notice. It pisses me off, she adds, When candidates think they are too good for some of these outlets, or that it cheapens them to do TMZ or do a more entertainment-focused thing. 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. It has been my passion since I was nine years old, which sounds sick. It is 5:15 on a Monday evening. This isnt going as planned., She continued: As soon as I got Hari on the line, he filled me in. I worked in states like South Dakota, Missouri, Ohio, Kentucky, Virginia. 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. But is it undermining its own side? It takes the edge off a bit. 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. They know who they are and will not let consultants, pundits, whoever, change them. Lets just blow it out. She had served as a senior aide on OMalleys 2016 bid and with the Maryland governor when he was head of the Democratic Governors Association. 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. Chuck Kennedy/PFA. Wed gone down to Jamaica to get away from tabloid drama, not actively court it, Smith said. Smith: Oh, thats simple. Smith: One of the things Ive learned over my time in politics is that youve got to let your candidates be themselves. Terry McAuliffe, and President Barack Obama, Lis Smith is finally flacking for Lis Smith. Inside the Shrinking Newsroom of the Paper That Shapes the PrimariesBy Tim Alberta. There are probably dozens of Mayor Petes out there across the country. Mistakes Ive made in my private life. Critics of the IDC have questioned Smith's loyalty to the implementation of progressive policies and candidates. Its sad, but our politics isnt built to deal with people who are reasonable. They feel like if they dont respond within two minutes, that the crisis is going to fester. The Post ran the exclusive photos of Spitzer ducking in and out of the Soho walk-up. Through the DNC race and afterward, Smith treated the national political press like it was another constituency that needed to be courted. ET Political strategist Lis Smith isn't a married woman, though she may one day decide to tie the knot with a lucky somebody. Why? Eight hundred have showed up. She knew Axelrod from 2012, when she worked as director of rapid response for President Barack Obamas reelection effort. 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. Maybe they wont focus on the former reigning champion [Spitzer], for once. John Edwards comes to mind. 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. And someone needs to be. The "Dame of Dish" passed away on Sunday. Andrew Cuomo's. Eliot Spitzer]. 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. I think thats always been part of Joe Bidens appeal. He was a once-in-a-generation talent, someone who perfectly met the moment, says Smith. Its really fun. Like we saw with Hillary Clinton, women are sometimes held to a different standard. 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. 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. The one thing you saw on our campaign in 2020 is that everywhere we went, he was introduced by young leaders, young mayors. 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. 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. The New York tabs may have sharpened her game, but people who've known her for years say Smith came ready for the fight. She led Buttigieg on a series of one-on-one meetings over beer, coffee, lunch or cigars with what used to be known as the Gang of 500those reporters, producers and pundits who shape much of the nations political coverage. 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. This story has been shared 102,835 times. While her work history list might be lengthy, her dating track record isnt very long. This is what day one looks like. 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. Wren: How is the Lis Smith depicted in this book different from the Lis Smith in the popular political imagination? People get stuck in a rut because something worked last cycle, and so they think it will work this cycle and it doesnt. 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. I see Donald Trump win the White House, which like everyone else, Im flabbergasted. Politics is literally a matter of life and death. That is not the typical relationship of adviser to political principal, but typical is not a word people use about Smith. Smith: I think its been great. 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. Axelrod told Buttigieg about Smith, and OMalley told Smith about this young mayor from South Bend. Smiths mother is a descendent of a signer of the Mayflower Compact, and a cousin of lead Watergate investigator Sam Ervin. How much of his success was because of you, and how much was because of him? 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. [44] She describes herself as an "oyster-tarian," which she defines as a vegetarian who will eat oysters. Maybe a story that would be 80-20 bad you can get down to 60-40 bad, and that little bit is worth it.. But I compartmentalized this knowledge like other things in my life. But until they released him from the NDA, we just didnt get his clients. Ahead of the release of her highly anticipated political memoir (which Politico Magazine excerpted last week), that includes figuring out how to get her computer to record our phone interview ammo to use in the event that its needed to set the record straight. 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. I couldnt talk to the media, and they didnt lift a finger to defend me.. Lis Smith is recording this call. 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. They need to understand how the political process works. [Smiths voice breaks here.] He hung up and looked at me in horror, and then my phone started ringing. It was from Montego Bay that Smith and de Blasio announced she would not be joining his administration. They are doing things that are more directly relevant to peoples lives. 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. POLITICO Weekend flies into inboxes every Friday. [1], Smith was born to lawyers Thomas, cousin of Senator Sam Ervin, and Adrienne Smith and was raised in Bronxville, New York, along with her twin brother Angus, and older siblings Ashley and Toby. Smith plotted the rollout of Pete Buttigiegs longshot presidential campaign. Disgraced former New York governor Eliot Spitzer, 54, and his new girlfriend Lis Smith, 31, may have enjoyed a relaxing family Christmas, but their cosy domesticity could soon be upset after it . Political strategist Lis Smith reveals in her new book how The Post exposed that she was dating prostitution-loving former Gov. Pete made us all show up to give our 100 percent at work made us all better at our jobs. Sign up for our newsletter. 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.. The private Terry is a lot more low-key, and lot more humble, a lot more thoughtful. Behind the scenes, Id get keep your head up emails from senior de Blasio aides, but when it came to the press, it seemed their attitude was more along the lines of off with her head. Buttigieg reignited Smiths love for politics, she says, after a really difficult 2015 and 2016 due to her breakup with former New York Gov. Lis Smith net worth is $20 Million Lis Smith Wiki: Salary, Married, Wedding, Spouse, Family Lis Smith is known for her work on AM Joy (2016), After Image (2001) and Politics Nation with Al Sharpton (2011). It may look like the sky is falling, but just ride this out.. Smith: Dont make me praise Chris Meagher. [21][22][23] In 2022, Smith became a communications adviser for Michigan State Senator Mallory McMorrow. In real life, I have a really close-knit family. She became obsessed with the idea of working for him, then became further obsessed when she actually met him, and developed the notion that once people got to meet him they would start to like him. He weighed in after the Supreme Court decision. 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. A better response that is informed by all the facts is the most effective way to respond. [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. We've received your submission. And he is as squeaky clean behind the scenes as he is in front of the camera. 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 . 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. Lis Smith on Pete Buttigieg's campaign bus during a. 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. That means that shes held to a different standard than sometimes other candidates. [2][3] During her time at Dartmouth, she volunteered for John Edwards' 2004 presidential campaign. Are you kidding me? What I realized from my time working in politics is how much mystery there still is around this industry. [24], Smith authored the 2022 book Any Given Tuesday: A Political Love Story. She has been actively involved in politics after the completion of her graduation from Dartmouth . Its just that I think with both Joe Biden and Kamala Harris that it would do the administration good to get out there a little bit more, and not to let the media and the Twitter dialogue get in your head, because most people dont speak like Pete Buttigieg in these beautiful, poetic, perfectly formed sentences. I was also reckless. There is nothing too big for her. Before a debate, you have no idea how much gossip is going around. [19], In 2020, Smith was one of six political experts named as fellows by the Georgetown Institute of Politics and Public Service. [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. Smith double majored in government and anthropology at Dartmouth College, graduating in 2005. 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. He lives in New York. 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. On Sunday, Bill de Blasio put out a statement in a New York Post story in his own name defending himself against the portrait you paint of him in your book as obsessively paranoid. If you were working for him, and a book like yours came out authored by someone else, how would you have advised him to address the situation? James Devaney/Getty Images. In that moment, in retrospect, it seems like Harris couldve ended Buttigiegs campaign. [9][41] From 2013 to 2015, she had a relationship with her former boss, New York governor Eliot Spitzer. Politics is really personal to me. He wrote a paper praising Bernie Sanders at Harvard? 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. After winning the election, the candidate joined the Independent Democratic Conference (IDC), and Smith consulted briefly for the group. After 20 campaigns flacking for candidates such as Transportation Secretary and former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg, former Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill,. Click here. Political strategist Lis Smith reveals in her new book how The Post exposed that she was dating prostitution-loving former Gov. Wren: What do you look for in a candidate? The thing with Terry McAuliffe is that hes in on the joke. Mistakes that Ive made with media. [2][9] She later worked as the spokeswoman for Bill de Blasio's mayoral run in 2013. 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? It was written over a period of 18 months,[25] and covers her life and political career. 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. Keep in mind she was 22 at the time, Smith said. This story has been shared 151,667 times. A lot of people thought that to beat Trump, you had to be Trump. This is an election where the women voters are going to be really important. Lets be real, Adam. 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. 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. Smith: Democrats love to bitch that we dont have a bench. A few weeks ago, a couple of hundred people expressed interest in this event. And yet you signed on anyway. I had a beerhe stuck to waterand we talked about his political ambitions and the state of the Democratic Party and why Trump won. When they gave me the job I thought, first of all this job exists? which Politico Magazine excerpted last week. [4] In 2006, she went to work on Claire McCaskill's Senate campaign in Missouri. I should know: Last October, I had my own intimate, off-the-record encounter with Mayor Pete. How Trump Took the Shine Off Washingtons Glitziest NightBy John F. Harris and Daniel Lippman. Smith has been exploring the idea of renting a bus, and just as McCain did, inviting reporters aboard to travel and fire away at Buttigieg with any question they want, all day, day after day. She is 36, a year younger than Buttigieg, which, Thank God. Lisa Smith (soldier) Lisa Smith (born c. 1981) is a former Irish soldier who converted to Islam and later travelled to Syria during the Syrian Civil War to join the militant group the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) during the Syrian Civil War. It was in 2013, the time when Smith was working for the de Blasio campaign, that she began dating Eliot Spitzer. But seriously. 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. He was an incredible leader at Louisiana State University someone that team could rally around, and such a maturity to him. He was thinking of running for chair of the Democratic National Committee. Smith: Youve got to meet voters where they are. Despite that having been some years ago, Jeff appears to support Smith and her recent endeavors. Wren: What is your relationship with Pete like now? Eliot Spitzer. In a clip from her memoir shared by Fox News, Smith slammed de Blasio for leaving her out to dry after firing her over the affair. [16] Business Insider considered her to be one of the 10 most powerful women running the 2020 presidential campaigns. No. 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. God, you fucked that up. Lis Smith on Pete Buttigieg's campaign bus during a four day tour of Iowa, September 23, 2019. 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. The 54-year-old disgraced ex-governor. Unless youre a total psychopath . I first met John Edwards when I was 19 or 20 years old. Maybe Im done. I think now more than ever, people need to understand how the media works. 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. My observation, said Axelrod, who worked with Smith on Obamas 2012 reelection campaign, is that she is the quiet hero of his emergence.. The more people see Bill de Blasio, the less they like him. Mistakes Ive made in my professional life. 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. I remember in Iowa, we had all these young mayors for him. | 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. 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 you just like have this moment, where youre like, Maybe this is it. 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. 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. Letting Terry be Terry. And although Smith would never say it, it plays on political reporters' narcissism, too. That cut both ways during the campaign for Buttigieg, particularly when a white police officer killed a Black man in South Bend. And that was our media strategy. 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: Im not going to say who. Except then it didnt. Smith: I think a lot of people get a very one-dimensional view of me. 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. Tom Ford. If you read through the many, many profiles written of presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg in the past several months, its hard not to notice just how many reporters happen to have had personal encounters with the candidate, often months before he was in the headlines. Id made some faulty assumptions, but the first was that my loyalty to de Blasio or my competence at my job mattered. It felt like we connectedwe went over our allotted time, and I had another beer, and by the end I had shifted from very skeptical to only moderately skeptical, just maybe seeing a lane for his candidacy. POLITICO Weekend delivers gripping reads, smart analysis and a bit of high-minded fun. Its a local-politics mentality to find the people that are going to be telling this story, and if nothing else, making sure they have a real understanding of who you are. Tim Miller, my friend, wrote a great book weeks ago, where he talks about the danger of getting sucked up in the game. When I met him was right after Trump won the election, and Democrats are running around with their hair on fire for good reason. I had to deal with candidates who, unfortunately, did not give me all the facts, and you cant effectively handle a crisis. Then there was what I did next: jumped off the cliff. | Our resort was more Leave It to Beaver than Debbie Does Dallas,' she claimed. 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. Wren: You mentioned that some people might view you as radioactive. 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