They know who they are and will not let consultants, pundits, whoever, change them. I would do that for free.). How Trump Took the Shine Off Washingtons Glitziest NightBy John F. Harris and Daniel Lippman. 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. And that was our media strategy. And if I can help you with my experience, my profile, my contacts, to do that, then I will do it. After 20 campaigns flacking for candidates such as Transportation Secretary and former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg, former Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill,. Buttigieg campaigns in Iowa shortly after officially announcing his bid for the Democratic nomination for president. TV news executives are calling, she says, emailing, now complaining that Buttigieg isnt doing their shows often enough. It is 5:15 on a Monday evening. After the fundraiser, Smith and Buttigieg climb into an SUV and head to 30 Rock. Usually, it was all good-natured. For example, you write in your book about going to a pop-up bar in South Bend with Pete and his best friend and campaign manager, Mike Schmuhl. It is my passion. 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. It was written over a period of 18 months,[25] and covers her life and political career. My advice is just go out there more, communicate more. And as you saw on Fox News Sunday, as I went to bed last night, [his clip] has 8 million views. 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. A lot of people thought that to beat Trump, you had to be Trump. None of those races were particularly easy. 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. 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. Not to be cheesy, but it is one of my proudest accomplishments. February 5, 2020 younolly Biography 0. Market Realist is a registered trademark. And when it happened, the story was her. Copyright 2023 Market Realist. Youve got this hard-nosed New York-style political operative and this friendly Hoosier mayor, he said. Most people do have corny sides to them. Other people could blame it on naivete, I cant.. You can unsubscribe at any time and you can contact us here. Theyre in the agencies. Smith: In my experience, the best working relationships between candidates and their top staff often depend on a sort of yin-yang dynamic. 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. Click here. Wren: I want a window into how you advise candidates amid a crisis. He had stayed behind in an area where there was active conflict while she travelled on by herself. She texts the buzziest bits to her sprawling network of journalistic contacts, who tweet them out. Ive always tried to be very grounded. Because he completely disrupts the idea of what a successful younger politician is. 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. 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. Schmuhl, his campaign manager, says a typical scene from the trail for the three of them is arriving 10 or 15 minutes early to the airport gate, and while he and Buttegiegwho hes known since 8th grade in Indianatake a moment to relax for a minute before boarding, Smith will head to the airport bar with her laptop and phone and begins texting and emailing reporters and clapping back to critics on social media. Pete asked the bouncer what the scene was like inside, and the bouncer told him it was lit. The term was lost on him. You have to know the social media ecosystem, how people are sharing and consuming their news. [The vice presidency] is probably the toughest, most thankless job in Washington D.C. And you know what their problem is? Regular voters and the media were primed for it.. That means that shes held to a different standard than sometimes other candidates. Tim Miller, my friend, wrote a great book weeks ago, where he talks about the danger of getting sucked up in the game. 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. It might not get you the votes, but I am not the political director. He weighed in after the shooting in Uvalde. Theres a public Terry and a private Terry. I know of one person in particular who said you were making a catastrophic career mistake working for a total nobody. Shes a Black half-South-Indian woman. Oh really, you didnt know that? 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. But it was one of those moments where I had to go with my gut. 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. And he is as squeaky clean behind the scenes as he is in front of the camera. 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. But you know, more importantly, through some trial and error, over this very long career, I learned the importance of letting candidates be candidates, right? 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. 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. 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. You write: Here we go said Larry Grisolano, Petes media consultant, stating the obvious. In the car, wed go back and forth on random trivia, and pulling up things on Google. The photographer also snapped Spitzer leaving Smiths apartment early the next morning wearing a skullcap and hooded sweatshirt, Not exactly the wardrobe of an innocent man, she notes. Its just a personal part of my book. Wren: How is Harris doing as a communicator? So I would obviously advise him not to respond. This story has been shared 102,835 times. She had an "itch," the political consultant writes in her. As a thirty-something mayor of a medium-size city, Buttigieg faced a credibility threshold with the national press. Smith starts texting me, wanting to know if Id seen the celebrities in the audience, including George Takei, Kal Penn and Kate McKinnon. | Maybe they wont focus on the former reigning champion [Spitzer], for once. Wren: What do you look for in a candidate? Rather than going after Pete, Harris trained her fire on Biden.. I couldnt talk to the media, and they didnt lift a finger to defend me.. Pete Buttigieg emerges as Democratic rock star proclaimed Business Insider during the race. I am here to get you clips. And so when they feel like they are getting attacked, or their families are getting atttacked, they think staff can never talk to them on the level, and it is frustrating for principals, because they are like, You are just a kid, you dont know anything. But with me, I can tell them, This is what is going to happen, this is how we are going to deal with it. But another thing is that Im not someone whos just worked in New York. `Jesus, you always keep it interesting.'. 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? Craig F. Walker/The Boston Globe via Getty Images. Smith: Im not going to say who. 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. 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. Theres the article in the Atlantic where the writer met the mayor of South Bend, Indiana for a chicken tempura lunch in Manhattan. I tell her that I have been calling around to former coworkers and associates, trying to get a sense of how she operates. Petes hitting at this moment in part because of the legwork they did. Former communications director, Pete Buttigieg's presidential campaign. I was also reckless. [9][41] From 2013 to 2015, she had a relationship with her former boss, New York governor Eliot Spitzer. Can I tell you something very off the record, she texts. This is an election where the women voters are going to be really important. Let Pete be Pete. Lis knew that she had to build wide to build up, said Stephanie Cutter, who also worked on Obamas 2012 effort. I remember hearing from other consultants, Why is he going out there speaking seven languages? Maybe a story that would be 80-20 bad you can get down to 60-40 bad, and that little bit is worth it.. And also keep in mind she was wasnt working on my campaign. Smith: Thats hilarious. [33][34][35] She has written for publications such as The New York Times, Vanity Fair and The Washington Post. | Lets be real, Adam. Photo: amyandstuart.com@AmyandStuart. The White House Correspondents Dinner is shrinking back to the boring awards ceremony journalists claimed to prefer. He was a once-in-a-generation talent, someone who perfectly met the moment, says Smith. 8,310 Followers, 856 Following, 219 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Lis Smith (@lis__smith) I would say that these days, my vetting skills are maybe a little savvier. I Want Him on Everything: Meet the Woman Behind theButtigieg Media Frenzy, proclaimed Business Insider during the race, California's road to recovery runs through D.C. Republicans, Why New Jerseys ventilator guidelines may favor younger, whiter patients, Rhode Island ends specific restrictions on New Yorkers by making them national. Now more than ever, people are seeing politics touch everything in our lives. We are humble and kind, to quote Tim McGraw. There is nothing too big for her. God, you fucked that up. This story has been shared 127,012 times. Tommy McArdle. Before a debate, you have no idea how much gossip is going around. After O'Malley's campaign, she advised several nonprofit organizations, and incumbent governors such as Montana governor Steve Bullock. The private Terry is a lot more low-key, and lot more humble, a lot more thoughtful. And it was the first time Id worked in politics that Id ever felt that way. 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. | James Devaney/GC Images. Both Miller and Smith come off as quasi-heros, semi-savants, pseudo-sociologists. We would like to show you a description here but the site won't allow us. She gravitates to candidates who are challenging and testing the status quo. The thing with Terry McAuliffe is that hes in on the joke. 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. (For the record, I can totally envision him sitting on the floor singing Kumbaya just not for me. What do I get if I pay for your consulting services? The spotlight turns to Kamala Harris, the only Black candidate on stage. Lis Smith entered politics after watching The War Room, the 1992 documentary about Bill Clinton's successful bid for the presidency. I want political people to read this book, because I think its fun. 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. But that didnt work out. Mistakes Ive made in my private life. 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. Although Smith and Spitzer attempted to keep the affair under wraps, a photographer for the New York Post spotted the pair at her SoHo walkup apartment, exchanging loving looks.. His resignation came after it was discovered he had been involved with prostitutes. It was by no means an obvious career move for Smith. 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[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. [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. 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. My mood changed when the Post story popped. Your Bengals fandom and their Super Bowl run is a part of the book. 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. George Bush had Karl Rove; Bill Clinton had James Carville. That is not the typical relationship of adviser to political principal, but typical is not a word people use about Smith. 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. They need to understand how the political process works. 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. Smith, standing behind Buttigieg as he campaigns at various events in New York this April. She has a 3-day-old copy of the New York Post in her bag. 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?. He's on his way into a black car to do Maddow. You couldnt have pulled off that strategy with a Bill de Blasio. Your knowledge of the process? 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 knew from the beginningthat our relationship would be a big tabloid story when it became public. 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. I want him on everything, she told me. 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. I worked in states like South Dakota, Missouri, Ohio, Kentucky, Virginia. They have one man to thank. I fucking love John McCain. But its not just about the 18-year-old girl. The Simpsons actress Yeardley Smith is newly married and she and her husband have quite the . We needed to be the antidote to him. She ran his campaign publicly by courting the national political press, a technique she further honed during Buttigieg's 2020 presidential campaign. I romanticize it. Im just going to leave it there because I thought it was funny. A lot of people people whose opinion you respect told you that you were nuts when you chose to work for Pete. Despite that having been some years ago, Jeff appears to support Smith and her recent endeavors. Its why in one day we do CBS Sunday Morning, The View, Teen Vogue and the New Yorker. This isnt going as planned., She continued: As soon as I got Hari on the line, he filled me in. But the Post discovered where they were. He doesnt yell and scream, take the most extreme positions on issues, or tweet incendiary things. And although Smith would never say it, it plays on political reporters' narcissism, too. Politics has a bias toward the status quo, she says. [2][9], Her role in the campaign was explored by the 2021 documentary film Mayor Pete. He has a clear social consciousness to him that you dont see in a lot of professional athletes. My observation, said Axelrod, who worked with Smith on Obamas 2012 reelection campaign, is that she is the quiet hero of his emergence.. There was only one path for us to break through. Mistakes Ive made in my professional life. I had to deal with candidates who, unfortunately, did not give me all the facts, and you cant effectively handle a crisis. [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. And then what?, she thought to herself. 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.. Martin OMalley, who got like 1 percent in the Iowa Caucuses. Maybe Im done. Wren: You mentioned that some people might view you as radioactive. In my book, I sort of get at this, but we are sort of an odd couple. 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. 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. Her father was a partner at the white-shoe law firm Sidley Austin. Of course, then I would, Id get a tepid reception and she would never let me hear the end of it. 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. Sign up for our newsletter. And especially on far-leftist DSA Twitter, Im basically just depicted as a mix between Lady Macbeth and Rasputin in a wig, that Im like some soulless political operatives. Wren: You write pretty transparently in the book about times youve been fooled by a candidate. Political strategist Lis Smith isnt a married woman, though she may one day decide to tie the knot with a lucky somebody. How has it turned out so far? 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. Its a role that clearly lends itself to his skill set. Lis Smith (born October 15, 1982) is an American political strategist affiliated with the Democratic Party. A better response that is informed by all the facts is the most effective way to respond. 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. | Elijah Nouvelage/REUTERS. Also how many, like, mind-games campaigns are playing with others. 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. 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. People get stuck in a rut because something worked last cycle, and so they think it will work this cycle and it doesnt. 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. But more broadly, they are diagnosing the ills of the party that paid their housing for years. The writer from Indianapolis Monthly who went for a jog with Buttigieg three months before his feature landed, the Washington Post Magazine writer who sat down in a Virginia soul food joint with Mayor Pete long before he declared his presidential bid and the Yahoo News feature writer who crammed into the corner seat of a midtown Manhattan caf with him months ago. Smith is 31; a Dartmouth graduate who apparently has a thing for bad boys. Otherwise, I would kill myself. Which is to say that Buttigieg may know seven languages and carry around Ulysses and sit in with the South Bend Orchestra on piano, but as far as his top aide is concerned, it is only because he has an extra year on her. Lis Smith is a veteran of twenty political campaigns. 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 attack we had been dreading was coming. Why do I fucking love John McCain? 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. He looked white as a ghost, didnt say anything, just nodding along. When I met him was right after Trump won the election, and Democrats are running around with their hair on fire for good reason. 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. Smith: I think a lot of people get a very one-dimensional view of me. Smith: So with John Edwards, I was a college student. I worked in politics nine years before I ever moved to New York. I have a really close-knit group of friends who have nothing to do with politics. 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. Dont miss it! It wasnt an ideal situation, but it taught me a lot, Smith says. Meet the DNC dark horse: Indiana mayor Pete Buttigieg is shaking up the race for Democratic chair, added Salon. Does something like Buttigieg Derangement Syndrome exist? By. I really did feel he treated me as an equal. Pete made us all show up to give our 100 percent at work made us all better at our jobs. While working for the Obama campaign she met David Axelrod, whom Smith considers a mentor. Details of that relationship were first brought to light by various media outlets and then, in Smiths recently debuted memoir, Any Given Tuesday: A Political Love Story. 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. [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 is now Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio's spokeswoman and is dating Spitzer. She is practically shaking with excess energy. 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