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Ace Smith

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“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. And we decided to do that in the Fall of 2016 when there was all this hatred against Muslim kids. We do that in the fall as our back to school program. Then we do a program called Know We Needs a Loan and then we do an online program about standing up for other kids. And our curriculum and programs are now in something like a third of the public schools in America.”
2018-08-13 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 263 — Ace Smith · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So she had what I think they call, I forget the medical term, but basically it's a seizure that's so massive it kills you. And what happened was we did a big service for her at a local synagogue, and we took a number of her writings and put them in the pamphlet. And she talked about her middle school experience. And as a result, a lot of the kids who went to high school with her approached Laura and said we didn't We shouldn't on this, we didn't know this. What can we do? And Laura thought about it and about six months later she called up these kids and she said, I have an idea. Why don't you come with me and we'll do some assemblies at local schools and talk about social isolation. And that was really the Germ in the beginning of what became an organization which Laura now runs called Beyond Differences.”
2018-08-13 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 263 — Ace Smith · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You beat us in Texas. I was able to talk her actually home school teacher had the brilliant idea that there would be more educational for her to go on the campaign trail than to study books. And so she went off with me to Texas. She went off with me to North Carolina. And she would go out and do all the things that the volunteers would do. And what a great experience. And then she just... Passed away very unexpectedly.”
2018-08-13 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 263 — Ace Smith · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And she started really off and calling her mom and saying, you know, I'm in the bathroom. So on and so forth. But we actually ended up taking her out of middle school. Much we didn't want to in having her homeschooled because she was so isolated. That actually led to some wonderful adventures when I was in 2008, when I was running.”
2018-08-13 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 263 — Ace Smith · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, what happened with Lily was she Elementary school was great, and it's funny. Kids are very accepting. And then she hit middle school. That's where it gets tough. Exactly.”
2018-08-13 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 263 — Ace Smith · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Lily was born with a syndrome called Apert, which was a cranial facial condition and it required multiple surgeries and a lot of struggle. And the thing that was always remarkable about Lily was that She really went through all that with a honestly a courage that is almost hard to fathom in outlook on life and love people tremendously”
2018-08-13 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 263 — Ace Smith · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, it's 1937, and he's walking down the streets of New Orleans, and this tiny little man in a white suit and white hat approaches him and says, my name is Dr. Jose Enrique Ibar. He says, I work for the president of the Dominican Republic. And the president would like to retain your services. And so Satchel looks at him and he recalls, the first thing I thought about was this must be one heck of a sick ball club if they got a doctor in charge. But he didn't say that. He said, show me the money. So the next day the little doctor shows up with a bank book, Satchel Page names above the ledger line, and $30,000 underneath it. And so Satchel and his fellow catcher Cyperkins getting a plane and a seaplane and landing in the Dominican Republic. And he actually helps Ibar and Trijo's people recruiting a ton of other.”
2018-08-13 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 263 — Ace Smith · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“He loved to sing, but he understood the power of timing and throwing off someone's timing. And so he had a zillion motion. So you never knew when the ball was going to get really, couldn't time him.”
2018-08-13 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 263 — Ace Smith · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Would not wear his arm, he'd pitch in three different pitching motions during a game just so he wouldn't also threw off the batters. He'd do a thing called walking the rubber where he'd threw off different angles. He also, he was a musician. He was a wonderful musician. And he understood.”
2018-08-13 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 263 — Ace Smith · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Stealing a brass ring at a variety store. And he determined when he was really put away at this camp in what amount to apartheid state that he was going to become a great pitcher. And he came back and he honed that skill. He came back and he was original. So people think of him as just a kind of a character, but he had a brilliant mind, this man. And so he one of the funnest things about this book was finding a book that was written sometime in the 40s by a journalist who wrote little chapters on different people and show business and other places. And he wrote a chapter on Satchel, which is the place where Satchel, in the only time I know of, really talked about his craft, his picture, and how he perfected it. So it was fascinating what he had figured out was this. So Satchel.”
2018-08-13 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 263 — Ace Smith · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Central page is a, I think, one of the really remarkable figures in American sports. And I personally believe he should be, his name should be mentioned the same breath as Mohammed Ali or Babe Ruth, but it's not. And the reason why he was unable to play in Major League Baseball until he was 42 years old and he played before the days of TV. But we hear all too often the stories of athletes who've overcome an injury or different things. But when you take into account what Satchel overcame, it's truly remarkable. Here's a man born in 1906 in abject poverty in Mobile, Alabama, where not only is this city segregated, but you probably have a chance of getting lynched. He's arrested when he's 12 years old and incarcerated for the rest of his adolescence.”
2018-08-13 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 263 — Ace Smith · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The thing that I just think is so wonderful as a California exceptionalist I've just sat by and watched for way too long all the East Coast folks who always have this great advantage in New Hampshire because they're well known. And guess what? We're actually going to have even the playing field.”
2018-08-13 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 263 — Ace Smith · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, it had traditionally been for Stu Saint June. There had been a couple times when we'd moved it up, like in 2008, but... Snapped back. The other thing to keep in mind is that we have, as you well know, we have 29 early day early voting. Yes. So people”
2018-08-13 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 263 — Ace Smith · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Says she's done real jobs and has done, you know, as you also may remember, that we had a little friction with the Obama administration over the mortgage settlement. And she really delivered And then came back to California and put in place a thing called the Homer's Bill of Rights, which was for the first time said you can't sell these distressed mortgages to people without telling them what you're selling.”
2018-08-13 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 263 — Ace Smith · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“But this is a person with a not only does she have, you've seen her speak, not only does she have a wonderful ability to connect and communicate with folks, that is something you can never, especially in a presidential campaign is invaluable. But she also has a depth of knowledge and experience actually doing things. I mean, here's a person who ran the largest law enforcement agency outside of Manila. Just attorney general's health worked on that race. Exactly.”
2018-08-13 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 263 — Ace Smith · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“She would be both a brilliant candidate and she'd be a Amazing president if she ever got elected. Obviously, she's the one who has to make the decision as to whether she runs.”
2018-08-13 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 263 — Ace Smith · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“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. It's really where the clan was and it's a very conservative part. And going through all these small towns and I'm looking around, I'm seeing a lot of Republicans up. I'm seeing Obama signs.”
2018-08-13 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 263 — Ace Smith · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Him to graft on in that last election. And all too often about another 15 to 20 percent of folks who are really where they don't, they think the guy's a clown. They think he's, but guess what? He was actually talking about. Their economic future.”
2018-08-13 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 263 — Ace Smith · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That's something that still. Try something crazy to this day because I don't know if you share this view, but I know there's a lot of people that I talk to all day long who believe that Trump has turned America into something that isn't. I believe that there's about 30% of the folks or so, and there always have been. You can go back to Father Coglin, you know, all the Sarah Palin constituency in 2008. And the tragedy is that the Democratic Party has allowed”
2018-08-13 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 263 — Ace Smith · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Exactly. So he's always looking to push the margins on whatever it is, and he's always looking for the minority opinion. And he's always looking to have a debate.”
2018-08-13 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 263 — Ace Smith · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“He comes to a unique set of history and ability. And part of what is so unique about him is because he's a brown, because he has this famous name, he's actually, to some degree or another, impervious to things that would hurt other politicians. And he's well aware of that. But he's also intellectually one of those interesting and”
2018-08-13 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 263 — Ace Smith · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Let a fairly well funded Democratic opponent essentially have the field for a large part, knowing that he couldn't beat Jerry and then actually having our money in place for the fall campaign against a Republican who I knew we could beat. And honestly, that was the hardest part about that campaign.”
2018-08-13 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 263 — Ace Smith · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And so it was like it because, as you know, also politicians are a little bit, they're all a little bit like adolescents with money burns a hole in their pocket, and especially around elections. And so the trick of that campaign was actually to.”
2018-08-13 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 263 — Ace Smith · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The hard thing, the hardest thing about that campaign was this I believe that he could not be defeated in the primary California primary. And so I... Biggest job was, and this is one of the hardest things to do politics is not to spend someone's money when they're like, okay.”
2018-08-13 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 263 — Ace Smith · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Exactly, and I would go in there, and listen, this is in the category of like. I can't believe people pay me to do what I do. So I get to go in there every day and, you know, do the politics, but just really honestly just sitting there with him and Anne and figuring this all out is so much fun that it's almost I can't believe people paid me.”
2018-08-13 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 263 — Ace Smith · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Spouse you will ever meet. She is truly the ballast in that ship. Brilliant woman. And met with both of them, and we decided we'd come in and help them run the campaign. And so he had this crazy little place in Oakland that was that was just below where he lived. It was almost like being in the store.”
2018-08-13 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 263 — Ace Smith · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“To have a, and more than anything, to have a message that can cut through with relatively small amount of money in an incredibly effective way in the right part of the state. If you don't have a short message that's going to do your job, forget it. I don't care how much money you have.”
2018-08-13 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 263 — Ace Smith · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“California is very expensive. So let's say you have a $5 million budget in the state of California. Well, a week of statewide TV is $5 million. So you're going to do a field program, direct mail, and all the other stuff that people expect from campaigns. No, you're going to actually have to make some really hard decisions. It's almost like a Civil War hospital. You're going to have to leave a lot of things out there to die.”
2018-08-13 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 263 — Ace Smith · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That's a completely fair summation. Took a lot of. Of trips and falls and painful lessons, and I really emerged. When you're young in this business, it may be, say, like a Gymnast or an athlete where you are transfixed by the kind of like the method or the tactics of it all and how clever and wonderful it is. And a lot of times you miss the big picture. And one of the things that one of the odd things about doing campaigns in California that forces you to not be able to do that is California is so huge that any given time you're in a constant state of essentially triage where Campaigns in most of America, you're in a situation where you look at your budget and you can do just about anything you want.”
2018-08-13 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 263 — Ace Smith · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No one knew about that letter. That letter was the man of the draft board or one of them had the same Probably feeling that you or I had, and they looked at this young man and they said, and he tucked it away all those years.”
2018-08-13 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 263 — Ace Smith · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And so there was nothing you were going to, and the Arkansas newspapers, and they had reported, I mean, a lot of this stuff, it looks like Brilliant National Reporting, a lot of that material had been reported”
2018-08-13 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 263 — Ace Smith · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, not at all. The thing about, and you know this is that when you meet Bill Clinton, you just know he's going to be president. I mean, I did.”
2018-08-13 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 263 — Ace Smith · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Of course. And so, but what is missed in a lot of the research is not valuable in research per se. Research is only valuable if you have people looking at who understand the context, what you should, what messages you can derive from it, how it stitches together, how it fits in the fabric of the state, how you, you know, in short, how is it useful in campus?”
2018-08-13 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 263 — Ace Smith · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“He knew what to do with it when you came. And he also was not the sort of person who would get the back of the envelope. He would read through everything and have a thorough understanding of it. And he knew how to apply it. As a matter of fact, I think one of the biggest problems with research, I actually only did research, honestly, as a means to do stuff in the rest of the country and meet all the other people. I really never wanted to do that. As a matter of fact, I did it probably about a decade longer than I ever wanted to just because I have a small family and it was a young family. It was a way to not be, you know, off doing crazy campaign stuff”
2018-08-13 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 263 — Ace Smith · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Rahm has a brilliant political mind, and he could. Ron was I in the newspaper archives reading through thousands of clips, but he”
2018-08-13 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 263 — Ace Smith · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It is You're absolutely right in the I think it's one of those things that became more controversial. Just as a result of the people involved in the countries involved and circumstances.”
2018-08-13 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 263 — Ace Smith · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And that was the challenge that's different than today. I often think that the problem today is that there's so much information in how do you actually whittle it down to something useful. The problem in those days was how do you generate the information? And so it would evolve everything from going to newspaper morgues and fibbing about who you were and getting them to copy everything in it for you to scouring every local library property indexes. People, it wasn't an accepted practice in those days. I remember we had one race where some local community was so outraged that someone was, my goodness, researching one of their local folks that they actually followed one of my people around the city and put a map on the front page of all the places they ate and went and so on and so forth.”
2018-08-13 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 263 — Ace Smith · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, so ROM told me, typical ROM, he said, I got this race. Let's go see if you're worth anything. And so I went down to Florida and worked and I brought back a book to him. A research book. I'm pretty sure he looked it and realized okay, I can actually cross this race off one of my targeted races. This is, we'll win this race based upon that research. I got very lucky because that doesn't, that happens rarely. And so I proceeded to work races all across the country with him.”
2018-08-13 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 263 — Ace Smith · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Honestly, yes, I had, but not to the level I later did. I was making it up as I went along. Yeah. But was it superior to what was out there at that time, far superior? Absolutely. And I didn't think it was that big a deal. I thought if you're running a campaign, that's due diligence. I mean, my goodness, why aren't you reading through everything, get your hands on about your own candidate and your opponents?”
2018-08-13 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 263 — Ace Smith · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So I end up almost randomly. I decide to go to Washington. I'd like to say I had a great plan. But someone introduced me to this guy named Rahm Emmanuel, and so I walked into his office and I met this brilliant, wiry little guy”
2018-08-13 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 263 — Ace Smith · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It is, but it was, I wanted to meet all the people who did this. Across the United States, and frankly, there were two or three people in California, but the vast majority, all the famous pollsters, all the famous media people, everyone who was anyone Was really on the East Coast.”
2018-08-13 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 263 — Ace Smith · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So at the end of that election, I decided that I had to get out of California because I wanted to, there was a whole world I didn't know about. And I knew how”
2018-08-13 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 263 — Ace Smith · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“California in California, all in California. And then I eventually went in and worked for the president of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, who was, everyone thought was going to be the next mayor and lost a very bitter race in 1987. And I came to the conclusion after that race that I think one of the great ironies about running campaigns, I don't know if you've had this experience, but you always learn way more when you lose than when you win.”
2018-08-13 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 263 — Ace Smith · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“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 so it was kind of a wonderful lifestyle. And what I did between that whole period was run campaigns, which is always my great passion. I was involved as campaign manager at first, but was involved in campaigns from everything from judge to say legislature.”
2018-08-13 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 263 — Ace Smith · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Oh my goodness, I did everything for recruit volunteers to walk precincts, to make phone calls, to go to staff my dad at debates.”
2018-08-13 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 263 — Ace Smith · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, and that too. So it played these races, these mayors' races and DA's races would play almost like mini presidential races.”
2018-08-13 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 263 — Ace Smith · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“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. You had to do probably some nights, two or three debates at each one. There was almost daily coverage of these races in the local newspapers. As a matter of fact, one of the profound transformations of American politics has been really the loss of daily coverage or even decent coverage of local and state politics.”
2018-08-13 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 263 — Ace Smith · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Not only was it tragic, but it was one of those events where people just gathered everywhere at Castro Street, at City Hall, and just people were shocked and stunned. No one knew what to make of it. I think ultimately Both those people were amazing individuals. Harvey Milk, of course. Is the person we remember? But I think at the end of the day, that movement, which since became, ironically something that people never thought it would be, a very mainstream movement.”
2018-08-13 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 263 — Ace Smith · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Against the incumbent. They were, of course, assassinated by Supervisor Dean White in November of 1978, which happened also, ironically, just to frame it, at the same time as People's Temple almost. So it's this odd period in San Francisco. Then the DA, who my dad's running against, has the job prosecuting the murderer, the assassin, of the mayor and supervisor Milk. He, of course, bungles it with the famous gets beat by the famous Twinkies defense. And there ensues one of the...”
2018-08-13 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 263 — Ace Smith · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, he had decided he was running actually the year earlier and had commitments from Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk, who my family was very close to, to support his candidacy for DA. Against an agency.”
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