Even in decline, AM radio matters more than you might think. But it is kind of fascinating to watch., Smith met Buttigieg on the recommendation of Axelrod and former Maryland Governor Martin OMalley. ET Political strategist Lis Smith isn't a married woman, though she may one day decide to tie the knot with a lucky somebody. Smith: Yeah. Our resort was more Leave It to Beaver than Debbie Does Dallas,' she claimed. It may look like the sky is falling, but just ride this out.. 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. | It was in 2013, the time when Smith was working for the de Blasio campaign, that she began dating Eliot Spitzer. 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. This story has been shared 102,835 times. I was coming off some New York races where everything is just all-day personal attacks getting in the mud. Political strategist Lis Smith isnt a married woman, though she may one day decide to tie the knot with a lucky somebody. He was also married. I want people to know what its like behind the scenes. Whats especially important to me, is, you know, making sure to take a lot of young women under my wing. But I dont know whats inside him. 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.. My advice is just go out there more, communicate more. I see Donald Trump win the White House, which like everyone else, Im flabbergasted. 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. After 20 campaigns flacking for candidates such as Transportation Secretary and former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg, former Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill, former Virginia Gov. Wren: What do you look for in a candidate? Jul. They are already well-known.. They are doing things that are more directly relevant to peoples lives. A few weeks ago, a couple of hundred people expressed interest in this event. 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? 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. 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. Political strategist Lis Smith reveals in her new book how The Post exposed that she was dating prostitution-loving former Gov. The American, democratic campaign communication specialist Lis Smith is a well-known face in American politics. Oftentimes its not going to be found in Washington, D.C. Smith: Yes. Click here. And so my advice would just be, get out there more, especially with Kamala, go out there more. Letting Pete be Pete. God, you fucked that up. . 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. Smith: Im not going to touch that with a 10-foot pole. Im realistic here. After winning the election, the candidate joined the Independent Democratic Conference (IDC), and Smith consulted briefly for the group. I think thats always been part of Joe Bidens appeal. The photographer had captured Eliot and me exchanging loving looks as wed returned from a late-night dinner at a restaurant on my block.. 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. [Smiths voice breaks here.] Sign up for POLITICO Magazines email of the weeks best, delivered to your inbox every Friday morning. Meet the DNC dark horse: Indiana mayor Pete Buttigieg is shaking up the race for Democratic chair, added Salon. And it was the first time Id worked in politics that Id ever felt that way. 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. Craig F. Walker/The Boston Globe via Getty Images. But they did teach me the importance of always making sure that candidates are reflecting the values of their voters. 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. The most important thing is theres no one way to be a Democrat no matter what any of these lefty groups in Washington say, and we cannot expect candidates in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin and Ohio and Arizona and North Carolina to check off every box on the progressive party purity test. 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. I couldnt talk to the media, and they didnt lift a finger to defend me.. A better response that is informed by all the facts is the most effective way to respond. Does something like Buttigieg Derangement Syndrome exist? Pete Buttigieg emerges as Democratic rock star proclaimed Business Insider during the race. | I know youre asking it in good faith, but I am declining to answer it in good faith. [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. [31][32], Smith is also known for her commentary and analysis of United States politics. This is how we stop there from being a day three. 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. She then switched to de Blasios general election campaign for mayor. All Rights Reserved. Politics is really personal to me. So I would obviously advise him not to respond. 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: We check in here and there. Less than 24 hours after announcing the end of his marriage, former Gov. I have talked to all the guys who see in the shots. Riley Keough has been married to Australian stuntman Ben Smith-Petersen since 2015. 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. From the second I met Pete, I knew that there was something special about him. She did, however, date a married. Like we saw with Hillary Clinton, women are sometimes held to a different standard. 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. We would like to show you a description here but the site won't allow us. Lis Smith, Buttigieg's top communications adviser . I romanticize it. Overtime: David Duchovny, Matt Taibbi, Lis Smith | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO) Real Time with Bill Maher 2.54M subscribers Subscribe 11K Share 913K views 6 months ago Subscribe to the Real. But to me it was more just revealing [the] nature of the sliding doors of campaigns, and I think thats what youre getting at. | 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. The saga gave Smith an insight that most campaign operatives lack: what it's actually like to be that bug trapped under the magnifying glass. 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. That maybe once he double-dipped his fry at Barnabys? She recently appeared on Fox News and is catching the attention of other media outlets to further discuss the juicy details she spilled in her memoir. George Bush had Karl Rove; Bill Clinton had James Carville. Maybe somewhere an 18-year-old girl like me can pick up my book and can learn something from it about how you work with candidates, how you work with the media, how you deal with crisis, and also learn from my mistakes. After the fundraiser, Smith and Buttigieg climb into an SUV and head to 30 Rock. Lets just blow it out. Lis Smith Net Worth 2023, Age, Height, Relationships, Married, Dating, Family, Wiki Biography. Maybe Im done. By. I tell her that I have been calling around to former coworkers and associates, trying to get a sense of how she operates. The Post ran the exclusive photos of Spitzer ducking in and out of the Soho walk-up. 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. "[30] Some critics felt that it minimized her role in discrediting the sexual assault allegations against Cuomo. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. Letting Terry be Terry. [2][3] During her time at Dartmouth, she volunteered for John Edwards' 2004 presidential campaign. [6] She became communications director for the Democratic Governors Association in 2011. 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. 8,310 Followers, 856 Following, 219 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Lis Smith (@lis__smith) 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. Wren: Theres a part of Pete that is a little wonky, a little square. He has a clear social consciousness to him that you dont see in a lot of professional athletes. Wren: Youve worked in a lot of red states South Dakota, Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio. Chuck Kennedy/PFA. How Trump Took the Shine Off Washingtons Glitziest NightBy John F. Harris and Daniel Lippman. But another thing is that Im not someone whos just worked in New York. A text arrives from John Weaver, a top adviser to former Ohio Governor John Kasich. Wren: One of the theses of Petes campaign was that mayors are on the front lines of democracy. [36][37][38] She also has an active social media presence, through which she addresses political topics and factchecks statements by Republican politicians such as Mitt Romney. Weve got that Joey Burrow swag, but he does have humility to him. 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. He was thinking of running for chair of the Democratic National Committee. Pete made us all show up to give our 100 percent at work made us all better at our jobs. It went on like this, just cursing up a blue streak for like two minutes., The aides mistake, Smith recalls, had to do with email: He failed to BCC reporters on a news release he blasted out. Elliot Spitzer (pictured), the election of Donald Trump and former Maryland Gov. Theyre out in country working on campaigns. Neither Eliot nor I was gonna win a gold medal in the not reckless competition at the Olympics. Ive always tried to be very grounded. Lis Smith on Pete Buttigieg's campaign bus during a four day tour of Iowa, September 23, 2019. Despite that having been some years ago, Jeff appears to support Smith and her recent endeavors. Miller is darkly. A lot of people thought that to beat Trump, you had to be Trump. She is practically shaking with excess energy. 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. Smith: It made me want to be better at my job. The whole saga also taught her the rhythms of the New York tabloids, which have similarities to the national political press. The actress who is the daughter of the late Lisa Marie Presley and musician Danny Keough met. 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 . Eliot Spitzer wasted no time Wednesday in cozying up to his new girlfriend's family. 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? Smith did not let anyone featured in the book read it ahead of time, not even former principals like Buttigieg or Cuomo, whom she levels in the book in the way her beloved Cincinnati Bengals new right tackle Lael Collins might decimate an opposing player. That cut both ways during the campaign for Buttigieg, particularly when a white police officer killed a Black man in South Bend. The Buttigiegs announced last month that they were engaged in the adoption process. The "Dame of Dish" passed away on Sunday. He was a once-in-a-generation talent, someone who perfectly met the moment, says Smith. I consider him a friend . TV news executives are calling, she says, emailing, now complaining that Buttigieg isnt doing their shows often enough. I had gone through this awful breakup [with former New York Gov. On a cornier side, I think because he is such a good person, he made a lot of us better people throughout, because politics can be sort of a nasty business. Its really hard to do a hit piece on a guy who you are going to see the next morning over coffee and donuts. Theres the article in the Atlantic where the writer met the mayor of South Bend, Indiana for a chicken tempura lunch in Manhattan. It was written over a period of 18 months,[25] and covers her life and political career. Lis Smith was supposed to become de Blasio's press secretary until The Post revealed that she was dating former Gov. They lead with emotion. The Simpsons actress Yeardley Smith is newly married and she and her husband have quite the . It will hopefully make the cost of prescription drugs go down, or cut the price of insulin. Spitzer, at the time, was attempting to regain his footing in politics after resigning from his position in 2008. Wren: He rehabilitated you and taught you to love the political process again. And if I can help you with my experience, my profile, my contacts, to do that, then I will do it. "[29] Lloyd Green, writing for The Guardian, called it "breezy and informative. 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. Lis Smith is recording this call. 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. Wren: Fair enough. After McCaskill's win, she joined the 2007 Kentucky gubernatorial campaign of Bruce Lunsford and Greg Stumbo as traveling press secretary. 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. It was by no means an obvious career move for Smith. Spitzer leaves the apatment of Lis Smith at 5:44 a.m. on Dec. 19. Wren: What is your relationship with Pete like now? | But seriously. The final indignity, she said, is that de Blasios team team wanted the statement to say her departure was unrelated to her dating 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. The bad candidates are people who are insecure, who put their finger in the wind, who dont trust their instincts enough and dont have the backbone to do the right things. 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. Smith plotted the rollout of Pete Buttigiegs longshot presidential campaign. Between 1987 and 2013, Spitzer had been married to Silda Wall Spitzer. Smith has been studying the effort, reaching out to reporters who were there, and has been in regular contact with John Weaver, who helped engineer it. [17] She has been included in Fortune's 40 Under 40 in Government and Politics,[18] and Crain's list of the 50 Most Powerful Women in New York. 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). Not to be cheesy, but it is one of my proudest accomplishments. What is Lis Smiths secret sauce? Ourmost scandalous transgression was showing up three minutes late to the breakfastbuffet and sweet talking our way into cheese and jalapeo omelets.. Hes someone who is very special to me, and I hope hes always a part of my life. Smith: I think a lot of people get a very one-dimensional view of me. 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. Smith starts texting me, wanting to know if Id seen the celebrities in the audience, including George Takei, Kal Penn and Kate McKinnon. Id made some faulty assumptions, but the first was that my loyalty to de Blasio or my competence at my job mattered. If we do that it is a recipe for disaster. We met at the Roxy Hotel in Tribeca. While working for the Obama campaign she met David Axelrod, whom Smith considers a mentor. And so, she says, she cant talk right now. What makes him such a magnet for criticism on both the left and the right? She ran his campaign publicly by courting the national political press, a technique she further honed during Buttigieg's 2020 presidential campaign. 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. Maybe they wont focus on the former reigning champion [Spitzer], for once. It was Lis telling me I need to fire my campaign manager, that the guy is a fucking idiot. The national security site has found fresh energy as a savvy, progressive attack dog in national politics. He didnt feel the need to go out there and be the coolest guy or the hippest guy on stage. His resignation came after it was discovered he had been involved with prostitutes. 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 they all lack humility. I thought everybody knew that.. On Sunday, Bill de Blasio put out a statement in a New York Post story in his own name defending himself against the portrait you paint of him in your book as obsessively paranoid. If you were working for him, and a book like yours came out authored by someone else, how would you have advised him to address the situation? Obama had David Axelrod. He was an incredible leader at Louisiana State University someone that team could rally around, and such a maturity to him. Even people like Terry McAuliffe and Claire McCaskill, who both have outsized personalities. 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. 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. Your Bengals fandom and their Super Bowl run is a part of the book. 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. This includes with her own boss. William C. Lopez After leaving the eatery at around 12:30 a.m., Smith gave Spitzer a flirtatious look over her shoulder before the . And its really heartening because you realize the future of the Democratic Party is really bright, and that all we need to do is help lift these people up. Lets be real, Adam. It wasnt just the biggest names, people you know, Smith says. He was a once-in-a-generation talent, someone who perfectly met the moment. With Bill de Blasio, that was a different situation. Why would a Pete Buttigieg hire me? A photo and audio tour of the hosts driving the conversation. (Todd Maisel/New York Daily News) "They're both consenting adults and can do what they want," said a former Spitzer. | Elijah Nouvelage/REUTERS. She is the most competitive person I have ever known.. This interview has been edited for length and clarity. The scandal would serve as a distraction for both Smith and mayor-elect de Blasio but the political crisis communications guru thought she could ride out the storm. [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. Shes had some very forceful moments as vice president. Smith says thats worth it. Smith: Youve got to meet voters where they are. 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. And someone needs to be. I love him. 20 2022, Published 11:56 a.m. 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? E! Rather than going after Pete, Harris trained her fire on Biden.. I am here to get you clips. And when it happened, the story was her. That is not how she ran his race. They need to understand how the political process works. Tim Miller, my friend, wrote a great book weeks ago, where he talks about the danger of getting sucked up in the game. Let Pete be Pete. There was only one path for us to break through. Thats a pretty ballsy thing to do. Shes a Black half-South-Indian woman. Wed gone down to Jamaica to get away from tabloid drama, not actively court it, Smith said. 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 . Smith: Dont make me praise Chris Meagher. How has it turned out so far? We were on the bus in New Hampshire the week we were playing each other and furiously checking our lineups. What else was the oppo they were dropping? I worked in politics nine years before I ever moved to New York. I was making the bet that I could run out the clock on disclosing our relationship until I got hired officially. 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. The guy didnt have time to say hello before Smith could hear screaming over the line. Im joking. She had an "itch," the political consultant writes in her. I think that she gets a lot of unfair criticism. Martin OMalley, who shed worked for, performing poorly in the Iowa caucuses. And he is as squeaky clean behind the scenes as he is in front of the camera. 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. 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. 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