Ace Smith
The Strategist
The long view, patient, analytical, playing several moves ahead.
Ace Smith is a seasoned political strategist known for his work with prominent Democratic figures in California. This interview highlights his ability to cut through the noise of political campaigns and focus on what truly matters for effective leadership.
“And it's really, I so hope it's an idea whose time has come, we do. Our basic mission is to promote inclusion in middle schools and have the high school kids be the leaders who come in. And we have three national days. One of them is called Know Your Classmates, which was modeled on President Obama's Know Your Neighbors thing.”
“He got some weak manslaughter type conviction, but the The community was just outraged. No one could imagine that that could happen. And the race ensued, and it was a, in those days in San Francisco, which is different from the way things work today, there must have been 50 Democratic clubs.”
“I did, and I was probably going to do that whether or not I got a degree in literature. And as a young person too, back in those days, I'd like to say it was all for idealism. But the reality of that life was I could really work really hard like eight months of the year and goof off of the other four.”
“And one of the things I always admired about the Obama campaigns was that, yes, you knew it was important to do well, say, in Broward and Dade County, but you also had roots everywhere else. And so I'll never forget one of my experiences in 2008. I was working in North Carolina. I'm driving along the southern border of North Carolina.”
The Axe Files with David Axelrod — Ep. 263 — Ace Smith
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