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. The private Terry is a lot more low-key, and lot more humble, a lot more thoughtful. The "Dame of Dish" passed away on Sunday. She recalled tellingde Blasio chief of staff Phil Walzak over drinks that she and Spitzer were a couple. I think that she gets a lot of unfair criticism. Smith: I think Ive got good relationships with people in the media. Her father was a partner at the white-shoe law firm Sidley Austin. | But until they released him from the NDA, we just didnt get his clients. A photo and audio tour of the hosts driving the conversation. Shes had some very forceful moments as vice president. Wren: Youre often credited with vaulting Pete from the mayor of Indianas fourth-largest city to a member of Bidens cabinet. They lead with emotion. I couldnt talk to the media, and they didnt lift a finger to defend me.. Smith tried to outfox The Post by going to the Daily News as a pre-emptive strike in an effort to get a more favorable story planted about her relationship with Spitzer. 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. 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. Politics is really personal to me. 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. They just get swallowed up by the next news cycle, and never reach the voters who matter anyway. Lis Smith, Buttigieg's top communications adviser . 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. Political strategist Lis Smith reveals in her new book how The Post exposed that she was dating prostitution-loving former Gov. 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. We just had the Supreme Court decision on abortion. She is a talented communicator. 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. 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 . People may receive compensation for some links to products and services on this website. I lost the media war thatId thought I commanded, Smith said. Not possible, Smith says. How badly," she asks me, are you trying to fuck me over right now?, Interactive: The Lo-Fi Voices That Speak for AmericaBy M. Scott Mahaskey and Zack Stanton. 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. In the car, wed go back and forth on random trivia, and pulling up things on Google. I want political people to read this book, because I think its fun. ), Smith quipped. And maybe I shouldve gone to law school. Inside the Shrinking Newsroom of the Paper That Shapes the PrimariesBy Tim Alberta. 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. Whats especially important to me, is, you know, making sure to take a lot of young women under my wing. 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. 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. A few weeks ago, a couple of hundred people expressed interest in this event. Its that everyday when I go into work to try and get these people elected its because it will impact lives. Then there was what I did next: jumped off the cliff. 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. [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. They have one man to thank. How could they claim my dating life had nothing to do with the decision when it was the sole reason I was leaving,? she said. 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. Smith: In my experience, the best working relationships between candidates and their top staff often depend on a sort of yin-yang dynamic. 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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. Its really hard to do a hit piece on a guy who you are going to see the next morning over coffee and donuts. Eliot Spitzer wasted no time Wednesday in cozying up to his new girlfriend's family. I was also reckless. In real life, I have a really close-knit family. Lis Smith, a Democratic communications operative, has written a memoir that pulls back the curtain on how campaigns are won and lost. Wren: You mentioned that some people might view you as radioactive. [2] In 2014, she became a communication consultant for Adriano Espaillat's congressional campaign. E! I think thats probably the biggest misconception about me. I know youre asking it in good faith, but I am declining to answer it in good faith. You write: Here we go said Larry Grisolano, Petes media consultant, stating the obvious. Smiths mother is a descendent of a signer of the Mayflower Compact, and a cousin of lead Watergate investigator Sam Ervin. And when it happened, the story was her. 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. My observation, said Axelrod, who worked with Smith on Obamas 2012 reelection campaign, is that she is the quiet hero of his emergence.. Win or lose, she's turned an unknown into a serious . 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. Tommy McArdle. 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. [Smiths voice breaks here.] 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. I want people to know what its like behind the scenes. The actress who is the daughter of the late Lisa Marie Presley and musician Danny Keough met. After O'Malley's campaign, she advised several nonprofit organizations, and incumbent governors such as Montana governor Steve Bullock. 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 . But they did teach me the importance of always making sure that candidates are reflecting the values of their voters. She has extensive experience in public affairs, media relations, and crisis communications at the local, state and national levels. 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 think its a little bit of a ride. Theres just no one who can do a TV interview like Pete Buttigieg. [The vice presidency] is probably the toughest, most thankless job in Washington D.C. In that moment, in retrospect, it seems like Harris couldve ended Buttigiegs campaign. 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. [4] In 2006, she went to work on Claire McCaskill's Senate campaign in Missouri. Theyre in the agencies. Win or lose in the 2020 Democratic campaign, Pete Buttigieg's senior adviser Lis Smith has turned an unknown mayor into a serious contender. Copyright 2023 Market Realist. What do I get if I pay for your consulting services? I know of one person in particular who said you were making a catastrophic career mistake working for a total nobody. She has a 3-day-old copy of the New York Post in her bag. Each was the political id the candidate couldnt, or wouldnt, express. Mistakes that Ive made with media. Letting Claire be Claire. 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. [24], Smith authored the 2022 book Any Given Tuesday: A Political Love Story. But its not just about the 18-year-old girl. Smith starts texting me, wanting to know if Id seen the celebrities in the audience, including George Takei, Kal Penn and Kate McKinnon. She doesnt give a fuck. What is this new phase of your career about? Wren: What is your relationship with Pete like now? You couldnt have pulled off that strategy with a Bill de Blasio. Lis Smith entered politics after watching The War Room, the 1992 documentary about Bill Clinton's successful bid for the presidency. | Whitney Whitis. And it was a running joke between us: I was like, I cant listen to you talk about smart sewers one more time, or I will lose my mind. He loves that stuff. David Freedlander writes about politics and culture. I thought everybody knew that.. 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. A text arrives from John Weaver, a top adviser to former Ohio Governor John Kasich. Petes hitting at this moment in part because of the legwork they did. 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. They feel like if they dont respond within two minutes, that the crisis is going to fester. 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.. 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. Just before he was sworn in, de Blasio yielded to Peysers prodding and cut Smith loose just before he moved into the mayors office. 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. When you do more interviews, it reduces that gotcha instinct with the press, it reduces that cat and mouse game. Part of it with him is the persona. [8], In 2012, she became director of the rapid response team for Obama's 2012 presidential campaign. It will codify Roe v. Wade. And when I began asking around to figure out who was behind that strategy, the same name kept coming up: Lis Smith. 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.. 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. Letting Terry be Terry. 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. Pete was completely different. 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. When they gave me the job I thought, first of all this job exists? 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. She did, however, date a married man while serving as a campaign aide to former New York Mayor Bill de Blasio. 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. Between 1987 and 2013, Spitzer had been married to Silda Wall Spitzer. 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. And I have a nice, quiet life where I dont live in Washington, D.C. Lets be real, Adam. I was coming off some New York races where everything is just all-day personal attacks getting in the mud. Less than 24 hours after announcing the end of his marriage, former Gov. 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. Bill de Blasio, too. Lis Smith Net Worth 2023, Age, Height, Relationships, Married, Dating, Family, Wiki Biography. Not long after that, at the presidential primary debate in Miami on June 27, you take us inside the greenroom backstage as you watched Pete get asked about this incredibly fraught moment. [21][22][23] In 2022, Smith became a communications adviser for Michigan State Senator Mallory McMorrow. I see that being taken so far out of context. Smith: Democrats love to bitch that we dont have a bench. She is the most competitive person I have ever known.. Wren: You and Pete have very different brands. What I realized from my time working in politics is how much mystery there still is around this industry. Smith: I dont know, because I think one thing we saw was that he was pretty good about handling stuff. It may look like the sky is falling, but just ride this out.. TV news executives are calling, she says, emailing, now complaining that Buttigieg isnt doing their shows often enough. Terry McAuliffe, and President Barack Obama, Lis Smith is finally flacking for Lis Smith. It was total bullst. Wren: Tell me about that five percent credited to you. [2][11], She was the deputy campaign manager for the Martin O'Malley 2016 presidential campaign. Pete Buttigieg and his husband Chasten in February 2020. Smith: Thats hilarious. 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. Smith marched him to the front of where the national and New York press were gathered, telling him, Are you ready for your first gaggle? He stayed until the matter was exhausted. That is not how she ran his race. You know what people are going to react to, and you know that the tabloids, just like the political press, oftentimes just wants a little scalp and then they will move on., How the Intercept Is Fueling the Democratic Civil WarBy Steven Perlberg. But seriously. The good candidates have humility. That means that shes held to a different standard than sometimes other candidates. John Edwards comes to mind. Tim Miller, my friend, wrote a great book weeks ago, where he talks about the danger of getting sucked up in the game. Wed gone down to Jamaica to get away from tabloid drama, not actively court it, Smith said. Oh really, you didnt know that? Mistakes Ive made in my professional life. After McCaskill's win, she joined the 2007 Kentucky gubernatorial campaign of Bruce Lunsford and Greg Stumbo as traveling press secretary. Because he was a badass. I knew from the beginningthat our relationship would be a big tabloid story when it became public. Even in decline, AM radio matters more than you might think. Adam Wren is national politics correspondent at POLITICO. | But that didnt work out. What makes him such a magnet for criticism on both the left and the right? 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. Hes someone I ask for advice. 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. Smith: It made me want to be better at my job. She ran it like he was trying to be president, getting him in front of as many microphones as she could. Lis knew that she had to build wide to build up, said Stephanie Cutter, who also worked on Obamas 2012 effort. They are doing things that are more directly relevant to peoples lives. His resignation came after it was discovered he had been involved with prostitutes. It was Lis telling me I need to fire my campaign manager, that the guy is a fucking idiot. He was thinking of running for chair of the Democratic National Committee. Wren: Fair enough. These days, Smith seems to be heavily involved in promoting her new book. And that was our media strategy. 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. This is how we stop there from being a day three. 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. He was a once-in-a-generation talent, someone who perfectly met the moment. Smith plotted the rollout of Pete Buttigiegs longshot presidential campaign. 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. 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. He weighed in after the shooting in Uvalde. After winning the election, the candidate joined the Independent Democratic Conference (IDC), and Smith consulted briefly for the group. Why? Your knowledge of the process? 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. 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. Oftentimes its not going to be found in Washington, D.C. Wren: Could see a political career for him? Smith: I think its been great. He's on his way into a black car to do Maddow. 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." We knew the McKinsey stuff would be it, but he was bound by an NDA. 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 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. I would say that these days, my vetting skills are maybe a little savvier. I had gone through this awful breakup [with former New York Gov. | Mark Peterson/Redux, Yuki Iwamura/Redux. But there may be no political couple odder than that of Buttigieg and Smith. Now more than ever, people are seeing politics touch everything in our lives. 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. Most people do have corny sides to them. [40], Smith dated Missouri politician Jeff Smith after meeting him at Dartmouth and handled some of his publicity during his campaign. [2][9], Her role in the campaign was explored by the 2021 documentary film Mayor Pete. And as you saw on Fox News Sunday, as I went to bed last night, [his clip] has 8 million views. 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. 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. It was a long shot. Running for politics theres got to be a little element of narcissism or whatever you want to call it in you. I have a really close-knit group of friends who have nothing to do with politics. 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. Can I tell you something very off the record, she texts. "[29] Lloyd Green, writing for The Guardian, called it "breezy and informative. When I was starting in politics, we didnt have women. Like we saw with Hillary Clinton, women are sometimes held to a different standard. Why would a Pete Buttigieg hire me? That even in the age of Twitter, that especially in the age of Twitter, people dont really care about gaffes. [2][3] During her time at Dartmouth, she volunteered for John Edwards' 2004 presidential campaign. Politics has a bias toward the status quo, she says. News has confirmed her daughter Riley Keough welcomed a daughter with husband Ben Smith-Petersen, who mentioned their child at the singer's. She is 36, a year younger than Buttigieg, which, Thank God. In my book, I sort of get at this, but we are sort of an odd couple. New transcripts and . Spitzer and Smith stayed together for more than two years, with the tabloids following them pretty much the whole time. [19], In 2020, Smith was one of six political experts named as fellows by the Georgetown Institute of Politics and Public Service. 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. They need to understand how the political process works. Theres a public Terry and a private Terry. Pete and I, you can probably tell are pretty laid-back, pretty low-key, I guess what you would call pretty Midwestern, said Mike Schmuhl, Buttigiegs campaign manager, who sounds like the host of a classical-music radio station who just returned from a yoga retreat. [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. POLITICO Weekend flies into inboxes every Friday. Still, she still sought to rationalize her relationship with Spitzer. [16] Business Insider considered her to be one of the 10 most powerful women running the 2020 presidential campaigns. And then what?, she thought to herself. Deciding to get into politics for me, and in the world of political operatives, was like jumping off a cliff. She has also directed communications and strategy for a number of other gubernatorial, mayoral and congressional campaigns. 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