How hard-charging New York operative Lis Smith helped turn an obscure Indiana mayor into a national name.
magazine with Buttigieg’s beatifically smiling face splashed across the cover, and a New York Times with an A1 story about his time at Harvard.
Smith met Buttigieg on the recommendation of Axelrod and former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley. He was thinking of running for chair of the Democratic National Committee. She had served as a senior aide on O’Malley’s 2016 bid and with the Maryland governor when he was head of the Democratic Governors Association. She knew Axelrod from 2012, when she worked as the director of rapid response for President Barack Obama’s re-election effort.
Buttigieg campaigns in Iowa shortly after officially announcing his bid for the Democratic nomination for president. | Scott Olson/Getty Images “I think I am impressive because I am a violinist and I went to Dartmouth and I speak French and have travelled all over the world and, I don’t know, I know a lot about great apes,” she says. “But there have been a few times when I’ve been around him when I knew something, a factoid or something he didn’t know, and let me tell you,. ‘Oh really, you didn’t know that? I can’t believe you didn’t know that! I thought everybody knew that.
The tabloids followed the pair to Christmas at Smith’s parents house in the upscale suburb of Bronxville. Smith’s mother is a descendent of a signer of the Mayflower Compact, and a cousin of lead Watergate investigator Sam Ervin, and her father was a partner at the white-shoe law firm Sidley Austin. Just before he was sworn in, de Blasio yielded to Peyser’s prodding and cut Smith loose just before he moved into the mayor’s office.
“Candidates and the people around them can get so spun up about things, and when you get spun up you make the worst mistakes,” she says.
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