Smith has kind words for McAuliffe and McCaskill but portrays Corzine, a former Goldman Sachs chief executive, as aloof, never warming to the reality that elections are about retail politics and people.

In 2012 she earned a credit from Barack Obama’s re-election campaign. She worked on campaigns for Jon Corzine, for New Jersey governor Terry McAuliffe, for governor of Virginia and Claire McCaskill, for senator in Missouri. Not surprisingly, her politics are establishment liberal. He introduced his daughter to football and the star-crossed New York Jets. Her father led a major white-shoe law firm. Her parents were loving and politically conscious. She grew up in a leafy Westchester suburb, north of the city. On Tuesday, De Blasio dropped out of a congressional primary after gaining a bare 3% support in a recent poll. “Both of us had tried to get in bed with Eliot but only one of us had been successful,” Smith brags.

He also coveted an endorsement from Spitzer that never materialized. De Blasio retracted an employment offer to Smith, after her relationship with Spitzer became tabloid fodder. He “died as he lived”, she writes, damningly, “with zero regard for the people around him and the impact his actions would have on them”.Īs for De Blasio: “This guy can’t handle a 9/11.” He also came up short, we are told, in the personal hygiene department: a “gross unshowered guy”. Smith recounts in detail Cuomo’s mishandling of Covid, the allegations of sexual harassment and his obfuscation. She savages Cuomo and flattens Bill de Blasio, the former mayor of New York City, like a pancake. She savages Andrew Cuomo and flattens Bill de Blasio, the former mayor of New York City, like a pancake His administration ended abruptly in 2009, over his trysts with prostitutes. A 24-year age gap provided additional fuel but Spitzer, once known as the Sheriff of Wall Street, spent less than 15 months in office. Smith also gushes about Spitzer’s “deep set, cerulean blue eyes”, the “most gorgeous” such pair she had ever seen. “We were like a lit match and dynamite,” she writes. Smith dated Eliot Spitzer, another governor of New York who fell from grace. These days, he is seen by Democrats as a possible alternative to Joe Biden in 2024. According to exit polls in the 2020 Democratic presidential primary, Buttigieg brought meaning to middle-aged white college graduates. “He saw me for who I actually was and, for the first time in my adult life, I did too,” Smith writes. More important, he offered a road to redemption. Most recently, she was a senior media adviser to Pete Buttigieg, now transportation secretary in the Biden administration, and counseled Andrew Cuomo, now a disgraced ex-governor of New York.Īccording to Smith, Buttigieg made politics ennobling and fun. She witnessed plenty and bears the resulting scars. For two decades, Smith worked in the trenches.

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