Smith: Youve got to meet voters where they are. Both Miller and Smith come off as quasi-heros, semi-savants, pseudo-sociologists. Lis Smith, Buttigieg's top communications adviser . By. But to me it was more just revealing [the] nature of the sliding doors of campaigns, and I think thats what youre getting at. I, in those races, became extremely battle-tested. 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. [19], In 2020, Smith was one of six political experts named as fellows by the Georgetown Institute of Politics and Public Service. But I dont know whats inside him. She then switched to de Blasios general election campaign for mayor. [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. Wren: You write pretty transparently in the book about times youve been fooled by a candidate. 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. Letting Terry be Terry. Oversaturation? She did, however, date a married man while serving as a campaign aide to former New York Mayor Bill de Blasio. He shoots her a look and gives a mock shrug, as if it's an inside joke between the three of us, now old chums: I mean, a little I guess., Buttigieg makes an appearance on "The View." Whats that like? Is it your relationship with reporters and cable bookers? Wren: How is the Lis Smith depicted in this book different from the Lis Smith in the popular political imagination? Why do I fucking love John McCain? 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. Part of it with him is the persona. 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 American, democratic campaign communication specialist Lis Smith is a well-known face in American politics. How did that manifest itself with Pete, the first candidate youve ever advised who was approximately the same age as you? So I would obviously advise him not to respond. Wren: What is your relationship with Pete like now? Pete made us all show up to give our 100 percent at work made us all better at our jobs. I would say that these days, my vetting skills are maybe a little savvier. Its really hard to do a hit piece on a guy who you are going to see the next morning over coffee and donuts. That even in the age of Twitter, that especially in the age of Twitter, people dont really care about gaffes. She has a 3-day-old copy of the New York Post in her bag. It was a reporter from BuzzFeed News, waiting to take my place. 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? A better response that is informed by all the facts is the most effective way to respond. I have a really close-knit group of friends who have nothing to do with politics. 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. Smith: Im not going to say who. [2][9] She later worked as the spokeswoman for Bill de Blasio's mayoral run in 2013. This includes with her own boss. [40], Smith dated Missouri politician Jeff Smith after meeting him at Dartmouth and handled some of his publicity during his campaign. Petes hitting at this moment in part because of the legwork they did. [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. [5] In 2009, she became press secretary for Terry McAuliffe and Jon Corzine's gubernatorial races before moving on to becoming the communications director for Ted Strickland's 2010 Ohio governor's race. 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. Pete helped pull back that part of me, because while that might work when youre dealing in the New York tabloids, that doesnt sell as well in the Des Moines Register. I am a liberal Democrat, but I was so into the McCain thing. I love him. No. How has it turned out so far? Most people do have earnest sides to them. Lis Smith was supposed to become de Blasio's press secretary until The Post revealed that she was dating former Gov. That is not how she ran his race. 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. Because it would drive me nuts during the campaign hearing all his wonky, wonky talk about infrastructure, about roads, about smart sewers. Its an inherent conflict of interest. Yeah. Whitney Whitis. She advised a couple of governors still left in office, and started taking on more nonprofit clients. Weve got that Joey Burrow swag, but he does have humility to him. 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. Miller is darkly. Oh really, you didnt know that? If we do that it is a recipe for disaster. We are humble and kind, to quote Tim McGraw. How consequential was that looking back? This is what day one looks like. A New York Post photographer had been surreptitiously posted outside my SoHo walkup apartment. 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. Riley Keough has been married to Australian stuntman Ben Smith-Petersen since 2015. which Politico Magazine excerpted last week. After O'Malley's campaign, she advised several nonprofit organizations, and incumbent governors such as Montana governor Steve Bullock. The tabloids followed the pair to Christmas at Smiths parents house in the upscale suburb of Bronxville. I want Democrats to read this book. [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. Wren: Did you have a good handle before the campaign on Petes vulnerabilities? Smith double majored in government and anthropology at Dartmouth College, graduating in 2005. Does something like Buttigieg Derangement Syndrome exist? Wren: Tell me about that five percent credited to you. Hold on, Im sorry. Ive always tried to be very grounded. February 5, 2020 younolly Biography 0. They are doing things that are more directly relevant to peoples lives. One thing I find incredibly admirable about him is what you see is what you get. What is Lis Smiths secret sauce? 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. They feel like if they dont respond within two minutes, that the crisis is going to fester. 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. What do all the good candidates youve worked for have in common, and what do the bad candidates have in common? It takes the edge off a bit. Pete asked the bouncer what the scene was like inside, and the bouncer told him it was lit. The term was lost on him. 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. Are you kidding me? Published on July 13, 2022 06:12 PM. Sign up for POLITICO Magazines email of the weeks best, delivered to your inbox every Friday morning. What I realized from my time working in politics is how much mystery there still is around this industry. Most people do have corny sides to them. 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. Lets just blow it out. 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: I think its been great. Id worked for former [Former Maryland Gov.] He doesnt yell and scream, take the most extreme positions on issues, or tweet incendiary things. Still, she still sought to rationalize 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. [2][9], Her role in the campaign was explored by the 2021 documentary film Mayor Pete. The thing with Terry McAuliffe is that hes in on the joke. Smith tells Politico:. It will hopefully make the cost of prescription drugs go down, or cut the price of insulin. 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. 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, standing behind Buttigieg as he campaigns at various events in New York this April. And if people like it they like it, and if they dont they were probably never going to vote for you anyway.. I dont know if that delegate from Oklahoma is going be reading the Elle.com profile, but a lot of people are, and they should get to know Pete Buttigieg, she says. The "Dame of Dish" passed away on Sunday. I would do that for free.). In fact, other than Spitzer, Smith appears to have been flying solo for the last few years. I lost the media war thatId thought I commanded, Smith said. If you had any balls you would have said what I told you to say.. Mistakes Ive made in my professional life. 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. Chuck Kennedy/PFA. What else was the oppo they were dropping? Can I tell you something very off the record, she texts. Lis knew that she had to build wide to build up, said Stephanie Cutter, who also worked on Obamas 2012 effort. 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. She texts the buzziest bits to her sprawling network of journalistic contacts, who tweet them out. You deploy the F-bomb like Picasso used drypoint. She most recently worked as a senior advisor in communications to presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg. [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. And he is as squeaky clean behind the scenes as he is in front of the camera. Eliot Spitzer while working for incoming Mayor Bill de Blasio. She is the most competitive person I have ever known.. She has also directed communications and strategy for a number of other gubernatorial, mayoral and congressional campaigns. Even people like Terry McAuliffe and Claire McCaskill, who both have outsized personalities. 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What we did is fucking ridiculous. And when he was asked about that, he gave a really strong answer, and he took responsibility for things he did do in South Bend or things he didnt do in South Bend. And it was the first time Id worked in politics that Id ever felt that way. Smith has made a name for herself in recent months by working with a new crop of candidates in the middle of the country, including Michigan State Sen. Mallory McMorrow (center). I think thats probably the biggest misconception about me. 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. After his loss in the primary, Smith went to work on the winning election campaign and then the transition of New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio. Im horrified. 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. [24], Smith authored the 2022 book Any Given Tuesday: A Political Love Story. Wren: This book is in some ways a tell-all about the role of a political consultant. James Devaney/Getty Images. There were very, very few women in positions of power. [43], Smith says she experiences stage fright. But its not just about the 18-year-old girl. His resignation came after it was discovered he had been involved with prostitutes. 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. I should know: Last October, I had my own intimate, off-the-record encounter with Mayor Pete. Lis Smith, the mayor-elect's spokeswoman during the homestretch of his campaign and for his transition to Gracie Mansion, is in a relationship with Spitzer, the hooker-scandal-disgraced ex . I know of one person in particular who said you were making a catastrophic career mistake working for a total nobody. I remember hearing from other consultants, Why is he going out there speaking seven languages? [7] As communications director for the DGA, she oversaw gubernatorial campaign efforts in Kentucky and West Virginia. 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. After winning the election, the candidate joined the Independent Democratic Conference (IDC), and Smith consulted briefly for the group. It might not get you the votes, but I am not the political director. | I want political people to read this book, because I think its fun. 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.. We met at the Roxy Hotel in Tribeca. David Freedlander writes about politics and culture. 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. But seriously. The way Smith tells it, she thought she was done with presidential politics after OMalleys campaign fizzled in 2016. [2] In 2014, she became a communication consultant for Adriano Espaillat's congressional campaign. (The rapid-response job, Smith says, was for her like being a pig in shit. From the second I met Pete, I knew that there was something special about 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. They just get swallowed up by the next news cycle, and never reach the voters who matter anyway. Its about getting to know people and them getting to know you, Buttigieg says when I see him after the Brooklyn fundraiser, where he at least pretends to recall our earlier meeting and what we talked about. (For the record, I can totally envision him sitting on the floor singing Kumbaya just not for me. But more broadly, they are diagnosing the ills of the party that paid their housing for years. Wren: You mentioned that some people might view you as radioactive. It wasnt an ideal situation, but it taught me a lot, Smith says. Smith: So with John Edwards, I was a college student. There are probably dozens of Mayor Petes out there across the country. He didnt feel the need to go out there and be the coolest guy or the hippest guy on stage. 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. Usually, it was all good-natured. When they gave me the job I thought, first of all this job exists? The most important thing is theres no one way to be a Democrat no matter what any of these lefty groups in Washington say, and we cannot expect candidates in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin and Ohio and Arizona and North Carolina to check off every box on the progressive party purity test. Bill de Blasio, too. 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. But I love politics because it touches everything in our lives. [39] Time and Politico included her on their lists of the best political Twitter feeds. 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. Because he completely disrupts the idea of what a successful younger politician is. She was also communications director for Dan Seals' 2008 Illinois House race. But I understand that what I do isnt just a game. And you had Democrats out there saying, when they go low, we kick them in the face, and engaging in all this over-the-top rhetoric. 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. [16] Business Insider considered her to be one of the 10 most powerful women running the 2020 presidential campaigns. 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. The White House Correspondents Dinner is shrinking back to the boring awards ceremony journalists claimed to prefer. Maybe a story that would be 80-20 bad you can get down to 60-40 bad, and that little bit is worth it.. Obama had David Axelrod. 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. I remember in Iowa, we had all these young mayors for him. 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. The whole saga also taught her the rhythms of the New York tabloids, which have similarities to the national political press. A few weeks ago, a couple of hundred people expressed interest in this event. The scandal would serve as a distraction for both Smith and mayor-elect de Blasio but the political crisis communications guru thought she could ride out the storm. 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. Mistakes Ive made in my private life. 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