He was out there. Whats that like? (Todd Maisel/New York Daily News) "They're both consenting adults and can do what they want," said a former Spitzer. Politics is really personal to me. Smith: Mayor Pete is where Mayor Pete is now because Mayor Pete is just one of the most uniquely talented members of the Democratic Party. Yeah, I guess Id fallen in love with slightly problematic guy It wasnt like I was dating Ted BundyEliot was the former governor and attorney general of New York State, Smith said, referring to the serial killer. 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 . A report by New York Attorney General Letitia James showed that Smith was working behind the scenes to protect Cuomo from the allegations. The one thing you saw on our campaign in 2020 is that everywhere we went, he was introduced by young leaders, young mayors. 20 2022, Published 11:56 a.m. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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 . News has confirmed her daughter Riley Keough welcomed a daughter with husband Ben Smith-Petersen, who mentioned their child at the singer's. 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. Wren: I want a window into how you advise candidates amid a crisis. How consequential was that looking back? He lives in New York. What we did is fucking ridiculous. Honesty is really, really important to handling a crisis because you have to have all the facts at your disposal. Lis Smith is recording this call. She ran it like he was trying to be president, getting him in front of as many microphones as she could. Wren: Could see a political career for him? Okay, so Im working for tabloid target #1 in Bill de Blasio. 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. And I agree with him that you cant get sucked up in the game. Obama had David Axelrod. | Lorenzo Bevilaqua/ABC via Getty Images. He weighed in after the Supreme Court decision. 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? Shes a Black half-South-Indian woman. Why would a Pete Buttigieg hire me? Alums [of the campaign] are on the Hill. I think its just shaped up to be a perfect role for him. Lets just blow it out. 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. Andrew Cuomo's. | They know who they are and will not let consultants, pundits, whoever, change them. I couldnt talk to the media, and they didnt lift a finger to defend me.. If Id thought things couldnt have gotten worse, I was wrong, she said. It was written over a period of 18 months,[25] and covers her life and political career. The thing with Terry McAuliffe is that hes in on the joke. | James Devaney/Getty Images. My observation, said Axelrod, who worked with Smith on Obamas 2012 reelection campaign, is that she is the quiet hero of his emergence.. I, in those races, became extremely battle-tested. Buttigieg reignited Smiths love for politics, she says, after a really difficult 2015 and 2016 due to her breakup with former New York Gov. 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. The private Terry is a lot more low-key, and lot more humble, a lot more thoughtful. [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. There was only one path for us to break through. 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? 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. Maybe a story that would be 80-20 bad you can get down to 60-40 bad, and that little bit is worth it.. Her phone is literally exploding. There is a top political reporter for a major national newspaper apologizing for blowing off a meeting with Buttigieg earlier and trying to get one now, asking Smith, Will you ever forgive me?. 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. I think now more than ever, people need to understand how the media works. Chuck Kennedy/PFA. But I compartmentalized this knowledge like other things in my life. Bill de Blasio, too. You write: Here we go said Larry Grisolano, Petes media consultant, stating the obvious. 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. [2][3] During her time at Dartmouth, she volunteered for John Edwards' 2004 presidential campaign. I want people to know what its like behind the scenes. What do all the good candidates youve worked for have in common, and what do the bad candidates have in common? 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. Copyright 2023 Market Realist. Smith plotted the rollout of Pete Buttigiegs longshot presidential campaign. Now she has carefully orchestrated her own books launch doling out choice anecdotes to her beloved New York tabloids: De Blasio didnt trust NYPD security to keep secrets, ex-aide Lis Smith claims, blared one headline, which elicited an on the record statement from De Blasio himself. Smith ended up dropping most of her other clients, politicians and nonprofits alike. 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.. After 20 campaigns flacking for candidates such as Transportation Secretary and former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg, former Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill,. Even TMZ got in the act LEO DICAPRIO OFFERED BUTTIGIEG HELP DURING 2020 RUN, trumpeted the chyron. The obvious thing to do would have been to take on high-paying, quieter corporate gigs, or to reenter politics with someone truly high profile. It meant a lot to me as a woman to have someone like that. The New York Post is looking into you and Eliot, Smith wrote, adding, Well, fk. Of course, then I would, Id get a tepid reception and she would never let me hear the end of it. This is what day two looks like. Sign up for POLITICO Magazines email of the weeks best, delivered to your inbox every Friday morning. And you dont know who is actually going to attack you. But the Post discovered where they were. With her signature black bob, dark sunglasses, and red lipstick, Lis Smith cuts a striking figure in the world of politics . 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. [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. Smith: In my experience, the best working relationships between candidates and their top staff often depend on a sort of yin-yang dynamic. Wren: How is the Lis Smith depicted in this book different from the Lis Smith in the popular political imagination? I consider him a friend . The spotlight turns to Kamala Harris, the only Black candidate on stage. This is an election where the women voters are going to be really important. From the second I met Pete, I knew that there was something special about him. He looked white as a ghost, didnt say anything, just nodding along. Wren: He rehabilitated you and taught you to love the political process again. The way Smith tells it, she thought she was done with presidential politics after OMalleys campaign fizzled in 2016. 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. He was thinking of running for chair of the Democratic National Committee. I fucking love John McCain. Between 1987 and 2013, Spitzer had been married to Silda Wall Spitzer. He's on his way into a black car to do Maddow. Its just a personal part of my book. God, you fucked that up. Letting Terry be Terry. Its about hustling for opportunities. But more broadly, they are diagnosing the ills of the party that paid their housing for years. 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. Maybe a story that would be 80-20 bad you can get down to 60-40 bad, and that little bit is worth it.. 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. This isnt going as planned., She continued: As soon as I got Hari on the line, he filled me in. Wren: One of the theses of Petes campaign was that mayors are on the front lines of democracy. Let Pete be Pete. `Jesus, you always keep it interesting.'. And what Pete understood, and why I believed in him, was that to beat Trump, we didnt need to be him. Jul. I should know: Last October, I had my own intimate, off-the-record encounter with Mayor Pete. You couldnt have pulled off that strategy with a Bill de Blasio. 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. Pete Buttigieg emerges as Democratic rock star proclaimed Business Insider during the race. Im realistic here. Its really fun. 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., As a flack, you dont always understand what it feels like to be a principal, what it feels like to be under scrutiny. And although Smith would never say it, it plays on political reporters' narcissism, too. She has a 3-day-old copy of the New York Post in her bag. I could bring out a little bit more of a killer instinct [in] him, but he could bring out sort of a gentler, more thoughtful side of me that was mutually beneficial to the campaign. Maybe they wont focus on the former reigning champion [Spitzer], for once. 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. 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. His resignation came after it was discovered he had been involved with prostitutes. In the car, wed go back and forth on random trivia, and pulling up things on Google. We would like to show you a description here but the site won't allow us. [9][41] From 2013 to 2015, she had a relationship with her former boss, New York governor Eliot Spitzer. Your Bengals fandom and their Super Bowl run is a part of the book. Whitney Whitis. Published on July 13, 2022 06:12 PM. I have talked to all the guys who see in the shots. And I talked about that in the book. The Democratic bench isnt going to be found on Meet the Press every Sunday, and its not going to be found on cable news. 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. A few weeks ago, a couple of hundred people expressed interest in this event. Eight hundred have showed up. How has it turned out so far? 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. Smith: Yeah. | When you do more interviews, it reduces that gotcha instinct with the press, it reduces that cat and mouse game. One thing I find incredibly admirable about him is what you see is what you get. [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. But until they released him from the NDA, we just didnt get his clients. When I stood up and left the table, Buttigieg stayed, and I recognized a woman sitting at the bar. 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. I am a liberal Democrat, but I was so into the McCain thing. | Elijah Nouvelage/REUTERS. Wren: What do you look for in a candidate? It is a matter of life and death and we need every person on the field pic.twitter.com/LPqIS3zjnW. Lets be real, Adam. And maybe I shouldve gone to law school. Smith is now Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio's spokeswoman and is dating Spitzer. In what ways does your brand benefit from Petes, and in what ways does Petes brand benefit from yours? Wed gone down to Jamaica to get away from tabloid drama, not actively court it, Smith said. Usually, it was all good-natured. [43], Smith says she experiences stage fright. And so my advice would just be, get out there more, especially with Kamala, go out there more. 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. I was coming off some New York races where everything is just all-day personal attacks getting in the mud. . Smith: Im not going to touch that with a 10-foot pole. 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. 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. The tabloids followed the pair to Christmas at Smiths parents house in the upscale suburb of Bronxville. Eliot Spitzer while working for incoming Mayor Bill de Blasio. But that didnt work out. Former communications director, Pete Buttigieg's presidential campaign. They are already well-known.. And also keep in mind she was wasnt working on my campaign. Letting Claire be Claire. Theres the article in the Atlantic where the writer met the mayor of South Bend, Indiana for a chicken tempura lunch in Manhattan. Oh really, you didnt know that? Wren: Much has been made about Trump Derangement Syndrome this idea that, true or not, he scrambles rational political responses from otherwise reasonable people. POLITICO Weekend flies into inboxes every Friday. [10], In 2016, she was the spokesperson for Marisol Alcantara's successful New York State Senate campaign. And if people like it they like it, and if they dont they were probably never going to vote for you anyway.. She gravitates to candidates who are challenging and testing the status quo. Most people do have nerdy sides to them. Smith is 31; a Dartmouth graduate who apparently has a thing for bad boys. 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. And you are going to pay me to be really quick and really aggressive and to take on Mitt Romney? I worked in politics nine years before I ever moved to New York. Just before he was sworn in, de Blasio yielded to Peysers prodding and cut Smith loose just before he moved into the mayors office. The 54-year-old disgraced ex-governor. 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. You never get in a fight with someone whos trying to promote a book. Smith: It made me want to be better at my job. Shes on her phone talking to another Buttigieg aide. Its a role that clearly lends itself to his skill set. A text arrives from John Weaver, a top adviser to former Ohio Governor John Kasich. That was my philosophy. She has also directed communications and strategy for a number of other gubernatorial, mayoral and congressional campaigns. He had stayed behind in an area where there was active conflict while she travelled on by herself. 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). By. 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. Its an inherent conflict of interest. Your knowledge of the process? 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. 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. Photo: amyandstuart.com@AmyandStuart. This story has been shared 127,012 times. Keep in mind she was 22 at the time, Smith said. We knew the McKinsey stuff would be it, but he was bound by an NDA. He weighed in after the shooting in Uvalde. And you just like have this moment, where youre like, Maybe this is it. The more people see Bill de Blasio, the less they like him. Fantasy football we were competitive about that. But seriously. And no, politics is my love. TV news executives are calling, she says, emailing, now complaining that Buttigieg isnt doing their shows often enough. Smiths mother is a descendent of a signer of the Mayflower Compact, and a cousin of lead Watergate investigator Sam Ervin. And as you saw on Fox News Sunday, as I went to bed last night, [his clip] has 8 million views. Tom Ford. [6] She became communications director for the Democratic Governors Association in 2011. 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. I thought everybody knew that.. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Thanks for contacting us. I really did feel he treated me as an equal. I am here to get you clips. I wasnt born yesterday. At that point, reporters she had developed relationships with began to reach out, wondering what she was doing wasting her credibility on a little-known character who seemed like a step down the ladder of political prospects. "[30] Some critics felt that it minimized her role in discrediting the sexual assault allegations against Cuomo. It was by no means an obvious career move for Smith. If there is one thing that makes Smith unique, its not her knowledge of great apes or her particular skill eviscerating her opponents on Twitter; Its that her skin was toughened by a stretch of time in the rawest, roughest media environment of all, the NYC tabloid scrum. Deciding to get into politics for me, and in the world of political operatives, was like jumping off a cliff. 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. You have to know the social media ecosystem, how people are sharing and consuming their news. She orders a beer, downs it and orders another. He did. Wren: Youre often credited with vaulting Pete from the mayor of Indianas fourth-largest city to a member of Bidens cabinet. Running for politics theres got to be a little element of narcissism or whatever you want to call it in you. 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[33][34][35] She has written for publications such as The New York Times, Vanity Fair and The Washington Post. He was a once-in-a-generation talent, someone who perfectly met the moment. The Covid pandemic. You dont reach out to the 35-year-old gay mayor of South Bend, Indiana, because you think it will be an easy ride.. Wren: You and Pete have very different brands. He hung up and looked at me in horror, and then my phone started ringing. John Edwards comes to mind. Wren: Youre a very competitive person. When they gave me the job I thought, first of all this job exists? Is it your relationship with reporters and cable bookers? (The rapid-response job, Smith says, was for her like being a pig in shit. It was total bullst. 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. What is this new phase of your career about? It wasnt an ideal situation, but it taught me a lot, Smith says. ET Political strategist Lis Smith isn't a married woman, though she may one day decide to tie the knot with a lucky somebody. By signing up you agree to receive email newsletters or updates from POLITICO and you agree to our privacy policy and terms of service. ), Smith quipped. She did, however, date a married. Because 2015 and 2016 were really difficult times in my life. 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). She ran his campaign publicly by courting the national political press, a technique she further honed during Buttigieg's 2020 presidential campaign. 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