How much of his success was because of you, and how much was because of him? 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. [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. Click here. Even people like Terry McAuliffe and Claire McCaskill, who both have outsized personalities. After McCaskill's win, she joined the 2007 Kentucky gubernatorial campaign of Bruce Lunsford and Greg Stumbo as traveling press secretary. But Smith is still sour that de Blasio let her hang out to dry. Smith: Dont make me praise Chris Meagher. James Devaney/Getty Images. Rather than going after Pete, Harris trained her fire on Biden.. Still, she said, I wasnt exactly a PR neophyte. Sign up for POLITICO Magazines email of the weeks best, delivered to your inbox every Friday morning. Buttigieg reignited Smiths love for politics, she says, after a really difficult 2015 and 2016 due to her breakup with former New York Gov. 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 fucking love John McCain. From the second I met Pete, I knew that there was something special about him. That is not the typical relationship of adviser to political principal, but typical is not a word people use about Smith. 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. Wren: How is the Lis Smith depicted in this book different from the Lis Smith in the popular political imagination? She recalled tellingde Blasio chief of staff Phil Walzak over drinks that she and Spitzer were a couple. 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. What we did is fucking ridiculous. When I was starting in politics, we didnt have women. 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. I dont live and breathe politics every day. She wants to know if Id seen Buttigieg answer a question about the Notre Dame fire from a French TV station, in French. | When I stood up and left the table, Buttigieg stayed, and I recognized a woman sitting at the bar. | Elijah Nouvelage/REUTERS. Tim Miller, my friend, wrote a great book weeks ago, where he talks about the danger of getting sucked up in the game. | . 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. She is a talented communicator. Lis Smith on Pete Buttigieg's campaign bus during a. 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.. And you dont know who is actually going to attack you. We would like to show you a description here but the site won't allow us. Click here. Copyright 2023 Market Realist. Why would a Pete Buttigieg hire me? As a thirty-something mayor of a medium-size city, Buttigieg faced a credibility threshold with the national press. It will codify Roe v. Wade. It was in 2013, the time when Smith was working for the de Blasio campaign, that she began dating Eliot Spitzer. Smith: All the good candidates are comfortable in their own skin. I love him. Andrew Cuomo, had turned into a Nicorette-chomping ahole who ruined the lives of his staffers after letting national fame get to his head during the coronavirus pandemic. Critics of the IDC have questioned Smith's loyalty to the implementation of progressive policies and candidates. 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. We knew the McKinsey stuff would be it, but he was bound by an NDA. She did, however, date a married. I want Republicans to read this book. He has a clear social consciousness to him that you dont see in a lot of professional athletes. Wren: Fair enough. Id made some faulty assumptions, but the first was that my loyalty to de Blasio or my competence at my job mattered. I think thats always been part of Joe Bidens appeal. I have a really close-knit group of friends who have nothing to do with politics. Click here. 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. And I am,' Smith toldWalzak. Your Bengals fandom and their Super Bowl run is a part of the book. That cut both ways during the campaign for Buttigieg, particularly when a white police officer killed a Black man in South Bend. This includes with her own boss. Most people do have corny sides to them. It was written over a period of 18 months,[25] and covers her life and political career. Pete was completely different. And you know what their problem is? But I understand that what I do isnt just a game. And if people like me dont get involved, then Im scared about the future of our country. Maybe a story that would be 80-20 bad you can get down to 60-40 bad, and that little bit is worth it.. Smith: It made me want to be better at my job. People get stuck in a rut because something worked last cycle, and so they think it will work this cycle and it doesnt. Lis knew that she had to build wide to build up, said Stephanie Cutter, who also worked on Obamas 2012 effort. 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.. Based on that experience, how should Democrats make gains in those kinds of states in 2022? This sign-up form is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. But to me it was more just revealing [the] nature of the sliding doors of campaigns, and I think thats what youre getting at. Maybe a story that would be 80-20 bad you can get down to 60-40 bad, and that little bit is worth it.. While her work history list might be lengthy, her dating track record isnt very long. To avoid stakeouts during the media frenzy that followed, Smith said she temporarily stayed with a friend from her college days at Dartmouthwho resided on the Upper West Side. It will hopefully make the cost of prescription drugs go down, or cut the price of insulin. Even TMZ got in the act LEO DICAPRIO OFFERED BUTTIGIEG HELP DURING 2020 RUN, trumpeted the chyron. Meet the DNC dark horse: Indiana mayor Pete Buttigieg is shaking up the race for Democratic chair, added Salon. Craig F. Walker/The Boston Globe via Getty Images. Deciding to get into politics for me, and in the world of political operatives, was like jumping off a cliff. He wrote a paper praising Bernie Sanders at Harvard? 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. The New York Post is looking into you and Eliot, Smith wrote, adding, Well, fk. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. 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. Whitney Whitis. And if people like it they like it, and if they dont they were probably never going to vote for you anyway.. Political strategist Lis Smith reveals in her new book how The Post exposed that she was dating prostitution-loving former Gov. Politics is literally a matter of life and death. Inside the Shrinking Newsroom of the Paper That Shapes the PrimariesBy Tim Alberta. But seriously. Elliot Spitzer (pictured), the election of Donald Trump and former Maryland Gov. Does something like Buttigieg Derangement Syndrome exist? [9][41] From 2013 to 2015, she had a relationship with her former boss, New York governor Eliot Spitzer. 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. We needed to be the antidote to him. The way Smith tells it, she thought she was done with presidential politics after OMalleys campaign fizzled in 2016. Her plan is to emulate maybe the best-known and most successful insurgent move of recent campaign history: John McCains 2000 Straight Talk Express. When I met him was right after Trump won the election, and Democrats are running around with their hair on fire for good reason. This story has been shared 102,835 times. Spitzer, at the time, was attempting to regain his footing in politics after resigning from his position in 2008. The good candidates have humility. 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. 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. It was a long shot. So I would obviously advise him not to respond. He weighed in after the shooting in Uvalde. Seeing how Pete cuts through with people and what a truly effective messenger hes become for the Democratic Party, it makes you realize: Theres not just one Mayor Pete. [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. 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. Letting Terry be Terry. Lis Smith: My favorite was one person asking me if I lost a bet or something. Oftentimes its not going to be found in Washington, D.C. And yet you signed on anyway. | Scott Olson/Getty Images, Lis has an insurgent mentality, said Axelrod, a top aide for both of President Obamas campaigns. The photographer had captured Eliot and me exchanging loving looks as wed returned from a late-night dinner at a restaurant on my block.. 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. In my book, I sort of get at this, but we are sort of an odd couple. Smith: You never say never. The "Dame of Dish" passed away on Sunday. 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. Shes had some very forceful moments as vice president. Let Pete be Pete. Its an inherent conflict of interest. We met at the Roxy Hotel in Tribeca. But that didnt work out. Lis Smith, a Democratic communications operative, has written a memoir that pulls back the curtain on how campaigns are won and lost. He didnt feel the need to go out there and be the coolest guy or the hippest guy on stage. And its something that forever Ill be thankful to him for. It is 5:15 on a Monday evening. Wren: Tell me about that five percent credited to you. She ran his campaign publicly by courting the national political press, a technique she further honed during Buttigieg's 2020 presidential campaign. [2][3] During her time at Dartmouth, she volunteered for John Edwards' 2004 presidential campaign. After the fundraiser, Smith and Buttigieg climb into an SUV and head to 30 Rock. Wren: One of your legacies is the coaching tree, to use an apt football metaphor, that you left behind on the Pete campaign. [2][9] She later worked as the spokeswoman for Bill de Blasio's mayoral run in 2013. She has extensive experience in public affairs, media relations, and crisis communications at the local, state and national levels. Maybe Im done. In the car, wed go back and forth on random trivia, and pulling up things on Google. 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. This is what day two looks like. Smith: One of the things Ive learned over my time in politics is that youve got to let your candidates be themselves. Smith shot down a Post story claiming Sptizer was spotted kissing and sucking her toes while she was topless in a hot tub at a resort there. Win or lose, she's turned an unknown into a serious . She gravitates to candidates who are challenging and testing the status quo. Eliot Spitzer]. It was a reporter from BuzzFeed News, waiting to take my place. 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. But I love politics because it touches everything in our lives. 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. 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. And I agree with him that you cant get sucked up in the game. POLITICO Weekend delivers gripping reads, smart analysis and a bit of high-minded fun. Wren: This book is in some ways a tell-all about the role of a political consultant. Smith tells Politico:. While working for the Obama campaign she met David Axelrod, whom Smith considers a mentor. Politics has a bias toward the status quo, she says. 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. Shes on her phone talking to another Buttigieg aide. 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