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. He knows the importance of building up our bench. [21][22][23] In 2022, Smith became a communications adviser for Michigan State Senator Mallory McMorrow. Its really fun. The great media disruption comes for the Des Moines Register. In the car, wed go back and forth on random trivia, and pulling up things on Google. Liz Smith, the syndicated gossip columnist who chronicled the lives of New York's rich and famous with such skill she became known as the "Dame of Dish . Theyre just not looking in the right places. Terry McAuliffe, and President Barack Obama, Lis Smith is finally flacking for Lis Smith. When they gave me the job I thought, first of all this job exists? It was a slim path. I think now more than ever, people need to understand how the media works. Published on July 13, 2022 06:12 PM. Ourmost scandalous transgression was showing up three minutes late to the breakfastbuffet and sweet talking our way into cheese and jalapeo omelets.. Lis Smith was supposed to become de Blasio's press secretary until The Post revealed that she was dating former Gov. And as you saw on Fox News Sunday, as I went to bed last night, [his clip] has 8 million views. 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. He looked white as a ghost, didnt say anything, just nodding along. Our resort was more Leave It to Beaver than Debbie Does Dallas,' she claimed. Tommy McArdle. And they all lack humility. The thing with Terry McAuliffe is that hes in on the joke. Smiths mother is a descendent of a signer of the Mayflower Compact, and a cousin of lead Watergate investigator Sam Ervin. I figured he was special and it couldnt hurt if everybody knows who he is.. But it was one of those moments where I had to go with my gut. A few weeks ago, a couple of hundred people expressed interest in this event. Wren: What do you look for in a candidate? He weighed in after the shooting in Uvalde. | The photographer also snapped Spitzer leaving Smiths apartment early the next morning wearing a skullcap and hooded sweatshirt, Not exactly the wardrobe of an innocent man, she notes. After O'Malley's campaign, she advised several nonprofit organizations, and incumbent governors such as Montana governor Steve Bullock. She and Spitzer then jetted to Jamaica to get away from the media frenzy. Former communications director, Pete Buttigieg's presidential campaign. 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. Whats that like? 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.. Because he completely disrupts the idea of what a successful younger politician is. [11][12] In 2018, Smith became spokeswoman for Andrew Cuomo's successful re-election campaign, who had endorsed the political entity. Eliot Spitzer while working for incoming Mayor Bill de Blasio.. It was in 2013, the time when Smith was working for the de Blasio campaign, that she began dating Eliot Spitzer. Lis Smith, a Democratic communications operative, has written a memoir that pulls back the curtain on how campaigns are won and lost. 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. 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. They are already well-known.. 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. The White House Correspondents Dinner is shrinking back to the boring awards ceremony journalists claimed to prefer. 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. But Joe Biden is president today, and Kamala Harris is his vice president. [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. Political strategist Lis Smith casts Bill de Blasio as a "gross unshowered guy" who had good reason to be "pissed" about her romantic fling with Eliot Spitzer exposed by The Post especially. Its really hard to do a hit piece on a guy who you are going to see the next morning over coffee and donuts, says Weaver. Theyre in the agencies. Smith double majored in government and anthropology at Dartmouth College, graduating in 2005. Politics is literally a matter of life and death. I worked in states like South Dakota, Missouri, Ohio, Kentucky, Virginia. Even TMZ got in the act LEO DICAPRIO OFFERED BUTTIGIEG HELP DURING 2020 RUN, trumpeted the chyron. Smith plotted the rollout of Pete Buttigiegs longshot presidential campaign. The attack we had been dreading was coming. I think we saw that Kamalas attack on Biden was obviously was pretty pointed. The national security site has found fresh energy as a savvy, progressive attack dog in national politics. [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. The one thing you saw on our campaign in 2020 is that everywhere we went, he was introduced by young leaders, young mayors. And when I began asking around to figure out who was behind that strategy, the same name kept coming up: Lis Smith. 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[4] In 2006, she went to work on Claire McCaskill's Senate campaign in Missouri. 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. She wants to know if Id seen Buttigieg answer a question about the Notre Dame fire from a French TV station, in French. Hes someone I ask for advice. [10], In 2016, she was the spokesperson for Marisol Alcantara's successful New York State Senate campaign. Spitzer leaves the apatment of Lis Smith at 5:44 a.m. on Dec. 19. TV news executives are calling, she says, emailing, now complaining that Buttigieg isnt doing their shows often enough. [33][34][35] She has written for publications such as The New York Times, Vanity Fair and The Washington Post. 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. I, in those races, became extremely battle-tested. She orders a beer, downs it and orders another. Smith said she felt violated after learning she was being followed. 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. 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? But to me it was more just revealing [the] nature of the sliding doors of campaigns, and I think thats what youre getting at. The Buttigiegs announced last month that they were engaged in the adoption process. . Mistakes that Ive made with media. 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. He lives in New York. Offers may be subject to change without notice. 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. Tom Ford. 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 . And if I can help you with my experience, my profile, my contacts, to do that, then I will do it. [2][11], She was the deputy campaign manager for the Martin O'Malley 2016 presidential campaign. 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. And he is as squeaky clean behind the scenes as he is in front of the camera. Its why in one day we do CBS Sunday Morning, The View, Teen Vogue and the New Yorker. Martin OMalley, who got like 1 percent in the Iowa Caucuses. Wren: Much has been made about Trump Derangement Syndrome this idea that, true or not, he scrambles rational political responses from otherwise reasonable people. This isnt going as planned., She continued: As soon as I got Hari on the line, he filled me in. 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I fucking love John McCain. 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. She has been actively involved in politics after the completion of her graduation from Dartmouth . 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. We would like to show you a description here but the site won't allow us. And you know what their problem is? Still, she said, I wasnt exactly a PR neophyte. And you just like have this moment, where youre like, Maybe this is it. I think its just shaped up to be a perfect role for him. Eliot Spitzer while working for incoming Mayor Bill de Blasio. Letting Terry be Terry. The way Smith tells it, she thought she was done with presidential politics after OMalleys campaign fizzled in 2016. That is not how she ran his race. Pete asked the bouncer what the scene was like inside, and the bouncer told him it was lit. The term was lost on him. `Jesus, you always keep it interesting.'. 8,310 Followers, 856 Following, 219 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Lis Smith (@lis__smith) 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. But I dont know whats inside him. So I would obviously advise him not to respond. I Want Him on Everything: Meet the Woman Behind theButtigieg Media Frenzy, proclaimed Business Insider during the race, California's road to recovery runs through D.C. 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