Smith: I think its been great. . [44] Smith plays the violin.[44]. 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. Wren: Lets talk about another Cincinnatian: Joey Burrow, your Bengals politically outspoken quarterback. 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. Mistakes Ive made in my private life. Chuck Kennedy/PFA. And its going to be really important to have a woman sort of leading the charge on these issues, who is able to really empathize with the despair a lot of women are feeling. [13][14], Smith met Pete Buttigieg on the recommendations of Axelrod and OMalley when he was considering running for Democratic National Committee chair in 2017 and became a consultant for the campaign. 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. Smith: Dont make me praise Chris Meagher. [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. And he is as squeaky clean behind the scenes as he is in front of the camera. But I love politics because it touches everything in our lives. The book was praised for its insight into the personal and political fortunes of politicians she advised. Copyright 2023 Market Realist. (Todd Maisel/New York Daily News) "They're both consenting adults and can do what they want," said a former Spitzer. And I agree with him that you cant get sucked up in the game. I see Donald Trump win the White House, which like everyone else, Im flabbergasted. January 25 2022 01:38 PM A prosecution barrister has told a non-jury court it will hear evidence that Lisa Smith's husband took a sniper course on her advice while he was carrying out border. She wants to know if Id seen Buttigieg answer a question about the Notre Dame fire from a French TV station, in French. 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. Rather than going after Pete, Harris trained her fire on Biden.. [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. Whats especially important to me, is, you know, making sure to take a lot of young women under my wing. Buttigieg has gotten a number of lavish long-form features, so many that some have jokingly wondered whether Smith is getting paid by the profile. 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. 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. Wren: What is your relationship with Pete like now? 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. By ERIN BANCO, GARRETT M. GRAFF, LARA SELIGMAN, NAHAL TOOSI and ALEXANDER WARD. Her plan is to emulate maybe the best-known and most successful insurgent move of recent campaign history: John McCains 2000 Straight Talk Express. 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. Of course, then I would, Id get a tepid reception and she would never let me hear the end of it. 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. Wren: One of the theses of Petes campaign was that mayors are on the front lines of democracy. Even TMZ got in the act LEO DICAPRIO OFFERED BUTTIGIEG HELP DURING 2020 RUN, trumpeted the chyron. How Trump Took the Shine Off Washingtons Glitziest NightBy John F. Harris and Daniel Lippman. I worked in politics nine years before I ever moved to New York. She dated former Missouri State Sen. Jeff Smith from 2005 to 2009, before he was locked up in a federal pen for obstruction after a probe of the state's 2004 election. She did, however, date a married man while serving as a campaign aide to former New York Mayor Bill de Blasio. After the fundraiser, Smith and Buttigieg climb into an SUV and head to 30 Rock. I had that early rush of love on the brainI wasnt thinking clearly. It was a reporter from BuzzFeed News, waiting to take my place. Bill de Blasio, too. Letting Terry be Terry. 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.. I know of one person in particular who said you were making a catastrophic career mistake working for a total nobody. He hung up and looked at me in horror, and then my phone started ringing. Political strategist Lis Smith isnt a married woman, though she may one day decide to tie the knot with a lucky somebody. Her father was a partner at the white-shoe law firm Sidley Austin. Smith: All the good candidates are comfortable in their own skin. It was Lis telling me I need to fire my campaign manager, that the guy is a fucking idiot. This story has been shared 127,012 times. That fall, Spitzer and Smith started dating, which led to the New York City tabloids staking out her apartment to watch the pair coming and going. She then switched to de Blasios general election campaign for mayor. Wren: How is the Lis Smith depicted in this book different from the Lis Smith in the popular political imagination? POLITICO Weekend delivers gripping reads, smart analysis and a bit of high-minded fun. The American, democratic campaign communication specialist Lis Smith is a well-known face in American politics. February 5, 2020 younolly Biography 0. I cant believe you didnt know that! Petes hitting at this moment in part because of the legwork they did. A photo and audio tour of the hosts driving the conversation. | Wren: Could see a political career for him? We needed to be the antidote to him. 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 texts the buzziest bits to her sprawling network of journalistic contacts, who tweet them out. News has confirmed her daughter Riley Keough welcomed a daughter with husband Ben Smith-Petersen, who mentioned their child at the singer's. Political strategist Lis Smith reveals in her new book how The Post exposed that she was dating prostitution-loving former Gov. I think that she gets a lot of unfair criticism. By signing up you agree to receive email newsletters or updates from POLITICO and you agree to our privacy policy and terms of service. From the second I met Pete, I knew that there was something special about him. A New York Post photographer had been surreptitiously posted outside my SoHo walkup apartment. I would give Pete 95 percent of the credit and give me five percent of the credit. When they gave me the job I thought, first of all this job exists? If you had any balls you would have said what I told you to say.. Oh really, you didnt know that? It takes the edge off a bit. Our resort was more Leave It to Beaver than Debbie Does Dallas,' she claimed. ET Political strategist Lis Smith isn't a married woman, though she may one day decide to tie the knot with a lucky somebody. No. You never get in a fight with someone whos trying to promote a book. None of those races were particularly easy. He has a clear social consciousness to him that you dont see in a lot of professional athletes. It was as horrible as Id anticipated and seeing the photos of Eliot and me taken in what wed thought were private moments was even more disturbing, knowing they were on display to anyone who cared to look, she writes in the 304-page tome. Its a super-aggressive thing to do. Did I think hed sit on the floor with me and sing Kumbaya and tell me it would be all okay? He weighed in after the Supreme Court decision. Smith: Are we talking about the same Pete Buttigieg? 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. I was making the bet that I could run out the clock on disclosing our relationship until I got hired officially. William C. Lopez After leaving the eatery at around 12:30 a.m., Smith gave Spitzer a flirtatious look over her shoulder before the . But is it undermining its own side? We've received your submission. I think thats always been part of Joe Bidens appeal. The White House Correspondents Dinner is shrinking back to the boring awards ceremony journalists claimed to prefer. Your knowledge of the process? Hes someone who is involved fighting childhood hunger. I thought everybody knew that.. There is this thing that I have to be very honest with, because maybe I had been seen as a little radioactive because I had unwillingly had my private life spread all over the tabloids, more established candidates might not have hired me. The guy didnt have time to say hello before Smith could hear screaming over the line. | Mark Peterson/Redux, Yuki Iwamura/Redux. This story has been shared 151,667 times. Politics is really personal to me. I had to deal with candidates who, unfortunately, did not give me all the facts, and you cant effectively handle a crisis. Dont miss it! Theres the article in the Atlantic where the writer met the mayor of South Bend, Indiana for a chicken tempura lunch in Manhattan. Now more than ever, people are seeing politics touch everything in our lives. I worked in states like South Dakota, Missouri, Ohio, Kentucky, Virginia. I have talked to all the guys who see in the shots. Mistakes Ive made in my professional life. And you dont know who is actually going to attack you. | Even people like Terry McAuliffe and Claire McCaskill, who both have outsized personalities. Buttigieg recently started getting savaged online when it surfaced that he had told an audience in 2015 that all lives matter, and as it happened, he was due to speak at Al Sharptons annual National Action Network convention. Buttigieg reignited Smiths love for politics, she says, after a really difficult 2015 and 2016 due to her breakup with former New York Gov. 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. Smith-Petersen held a protective arm around Keough's, 33, waist as he supported the actress on her first red carpet since the sudden death of her mother Lisa Marie Presley last month. I, in those races, became extremely battle-tested. My advice is just go out there more, communicate more. Tommy McArdle. After 20 campaigns flacking for candidates such as Transportation Secretary and former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg, former Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill,. [31][32], Smith is also known for her commentary and analysis of United States politics. Pete Buttigieg and his husband Chasten in February 2020. It will codify Roe v. Wade. Pete made us all show up to give our 100 percent at work made us all better at our jobs. Each was the political id the candidate couldnt, or wouldnt, express. The spotlight turns to Kamala Harris, the only Black candidate on stage. As a thirty-something mayor of a medium-size city, Buttigieg faced a credibility threshold with the national press. 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. The photographer had captured Eliot and me exchanging loving looks as wed returned from a late-night dinner at a restaurant on my block.. I think now more than ever, people need to understand how the media works. And you know what their problem is? You dont reach out to the 35-year-old gay mayor of South Bend, Indiana, because you think it will be an easy ride.. But I understand that what I do isnt just a game. Its an inherent conflict of interest. Eliot Spitzer. which Politico Magazine excerpted last week. 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. POLITICO Weekend flies into inboxes every Friday. And maybe I shouldve gone to law school. 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. She is a talented communicator. 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? And also keep in mind she was wasnt working on my campaign. But I compartmentalized this knowledge like other things in my life. In fact, other than Spitzer, Smith appears to have been flying solo for the last few years. What do all the good candidates youve worked for have in common, and what do the bad candidates have in common? In a tweet shared on July 20, 2022, Jeff praised Smith for the publication of her insightful book., Talked @Morning_Joe about why I wrote Any Given Tuesday: "More than ever we need people to believe in the political processPolitics is more important than ever. 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. Still, she still sought to rationalize her relationship with Spitzer. I think its a little bit of a ride. It wasnt really until 2012 when I worked for Barack Obama that I did find a really strong female mentor in Stephanie Cutter and I learned so much about my job, so much about politics, so much about how to effectively communicate from Stephanie Cutter. Except then it didnt. 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. . Eight hundred have showed up. [40], Smith dated Missouri politician Jeff Smith after meeting him at Dartmouth and handled some of his publicity during his campaign. I was also reckless. 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. He doesnt yell and scream, take the most extreme positions on issues, or tweet incendiary things. Lis Smith was supposed to become de Blasio's press secretary until The Post revealed that she was dating former Gov. You couldnt have pulled off that strategy with a Bill de Blasio. Less than 24 hours after announcing the end of his marriage, former Gov. Smith plotted the rollout of Pete Buttigiegs longshot presidential campaign. Eliot Spitzer's girlfriend Lis Smith, 31, has not been asked to take up a position in New York mayor Bill de Blasio's new City Hall team in the wake of her affair with the disgraced former governor. It was by no means an obvious career move for Smith. [16] Business Insider considered her to be one of the 10 most powerful women running the 2020 presidential campaigns. There is nothing too big for her. Then, in an instant, everything changed, Smith writes in her tell-all, Any Given Tuesday., It came in the form of a text from [fellow consultant] Hari [Sevugan]: `Call me. If we do that it is a recipe for disaster. Why? Lis Smith is a veteran of twenty political campaigns. [24], Smith authored the 2022 book Any Given Tuesday: A Political Love Story. She most recently worked as a senior advisor in communications to presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg. 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. ELIOT AND DeBABE blared the cover of the New York Post, which ran several photos of the pair on its inside pages and in a column from the acid-tongued Andrea Peyser which called Smith not just any ordinary bimbo and called her an ambitious, youngish cookie who presumably does not charge Eliot for any services rendered., Eliot Spitzer and Lis Smith at a Philadelphia 76ers vs. New York Knicks game at Madison Square Garden in 2014. Its sad, but our politics isnt built to deal with people who are reasonable. 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. Spitzer and Smith stayed together for more than two years, with the tabloids following them pretty much the whole time. 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. Because he was a badass. After winning the election, the candidate joined the Independent Democratic Conference (IDC), and Smith consulted briefly for the group. 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. Did I think I was going to walk into his office and tell him that I was dating Eliot Spitzer? This includes with her own boss. Smith: So with John Edwards, I was a college student. So it was just sort of the perfect confluence of all these things where that yin and yang dynamic got us together. The national security site has found fresh energy as a savvy, progressive attack dog in national politics. Click here. 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. The thing with Terry McAuliffe is that hes in on the joke. 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 have a really close-knit group of friends who have nothing to do with politics. Because it would drive me nuts during the campaign hearing all his wonky, wonky talk about infrastructure, about roads, about smart sewers. And so, she says, she cant talk right now. 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? Wren: You mentioned that some people might view you as radioactive. Sign up for POLITICO Magazines email of the weeks best, delivered to your inbox every Friday morning. The Post ran the exclusive photos of Spitzer ducking in and out of the Soho walk-up. What makes him such a magnet for criticism on both the left and the right? I love him. Theyre just not looking in the right places. The good candidates have humility. It has been my passion since I was nine years old, which sounds sick. Smith: Joey Burrow is an incredible leader. Its about hustling for opportunities. From her days as a college intern for John Edwards to her own brush with the New York tabloids, the book traces her entertaining path to the height of the American political consultant class. 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