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Stephanie Cutter

lines on the record: 65
first: 2021-07-22
most recent: 2021-07-22
sittings or episodes: 1
sources: podcast

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“Yeah, well, actually, after I graduate from college, I waitressed for a summer at home to save up money, and then I moved to Washington with my best friend from high school. And we came here with no leads, nothing, no jobs, and we both signed up for an attempt agency as secretaries, basically. And I went one day as a temp to answer phones to Cuomo's office. And then the next day I came back and said, You really should hire me. I really want to work here because Mario Cuomo, and it was just sheer luck that I. Got that placement through the TEMP agency, but Mario Cuomo was my hero.”
2021-07-22 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 453 — Stephanie Cutter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“But I was on work part of my scholarship was work study, so I had to do menial jobs, you know, my first year I washed dishes at, you know, six to six to eight a.m. every morning. My second year actually funny story, Juliana Smoot, who is my best friend from college, who you know very well. She and I both worked at what's called the physical plant, which was all of the electricians and plumbers and maintenance people that took care of the campus. And we would sit in the sit in the headquarter room with walkie-talkies and just, you know, use the walkie-talkie to say, you know, Joe, Joe, there's an electric problem in Emerson House. And Juliana would be someplace else on her walkie-talkie. And that's how we would, you know, let's just say we had some fun with it.”
2021-07-22 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 453 — Stephanie Cutter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, so the housing system at Smith is not sororities, but it's set up as the house system kind of like Harvard in a certain house. And I was in Wilson house, and it was a great house. It was the head of the quad.”
2021-07-22 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 453 — Stephanie Cutter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Which you know sometimes can lead to my downfall. You didn't feel encumbered by anything in the classroom there, or not to say that I wasn't this person going into it, but I did see lots of young women who found their confidence in their voice after they came out of Smith.”
2021-07-22 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 453 — Stephanie Cutter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You know, fast forward a few months later, I'm going to Smith and I got a scholarship. It was a shift to go from my upbringing both just socioeconomically, but also in a family with two brothers with tons of boy cousins and to a woman's college. There were lots of great things that I got out of it. I got a great education. I made some lifelong friendships. It strengthened me as a person.”
2021-07-22 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 453 — Stephanie Cutter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, let me also say, I was born in Taunton, and Taunton is like the big City around me. I grew up in Raynam, which is considered to be a stepchild of Taunton. And there were actually two of us from my high school that went to Smith that year. And it was, you know, the deal with my mother was she was bounded determined to get us into college and get us out of Raynam. But the deal was, we had to find a way to pay for it. You could go, but you had to find a way to pay for it. And so my brothers both went to military academies. And she had me look at Smith because Smith has a big endowment. You know, I only looked at schools with big endowments because of the scholarships. And when I was looking at it, I'm like, mom, I really don't want to go to a women's college. And she said, you're just going to look at it and you're going to apply.”
2021-07-22 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 453 — Stephanie Cutter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, it's very addictive. And I, you know, from that experience, I just, that is what was always interested me. And, you know, I Through high school, I did, you know, I'm going to make myself sound like a dork here. But, you know, student government and model UN and the debate club and all of that stuff. While I was also doing my sports and everything else. And that was, I just always liked it and got to travel around doing mock trials and debates and things like that and thought I wanted to be grow up and be a prosecutor. And I did go to law school, but I never practiced. So I think it's too late to go back on that.”
2021-07-22 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 453 — Stephanie Cutter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, that kind of politics at such a local level and at that time, it really wasn't partisan. It was more agenda-based, but not party-based. And I didn't, I was too young to really understand what it was, but I liked the public nature of it. I liked, you know, Discussions, the meeting with people, the purpose to it, and of course the adrenaline of it, which I think we can both attest to having the adrenaline.”
2021-07-22 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 453 — Stephanie Cutter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Very a fixture and in a small community, but half of which we were related to. But there wasn't a parade that took place that he didn't have us in there with him in his car. Grand Marshall or whatever it was, but he just took us wherever he went. There were seven of us at that time and wherever my grandfather went he had some, you know, confab of grandkids with him.”
2021-07-22 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 453 — Stephanie Cutter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“He was, yeah, and he was a lot of things, but he started his own insurance company and he grew it into a pretty successful insurance company. But then he was the honorary fire chief and honorary police chief and the president of a local bank.”
2021-07-22 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 453 — Stephanie Cutter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And I assum I had to keep up. It was a competitive household. I have an older brother and a younger brother, and as I said, my mother raised us on her own. And it was great having two brothers. There was always something to do. If I wanted to do what they were doing. So, lots of athletics, and we were taught to, you know, shoot guns and hunts and all of those things at a very young age. So we did a lot of that and a lot of baseball and soccer and football. And we were all very involved in our community because my mother had been a teacher for so long and my family had been in that area for so long. that there was we were always doing something in the community. My grandfather was involved in local politics.”
2021-07-22 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 453 — Stephanie Cutter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“She was a school teacher, and then when I was in either late Middle school or high school or early high school, she had always been sort of a special ed teacher. And then she took a job with a State run institution to help the mentally disabled. Mostly adults. And that was her primary job when I was young.”
2021-07-22 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 453 — Stephanie Cutter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“My parents divorced when I was in second grade, and we lived with my mom would sometimes go on weekends with my father. He moved to Maine, but mostly grew up with my mom.”
2021-07-22 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 453 — Stephanie Cutter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Some in the late 1800s, some in the early 1900s, and they settled in the Taunton area. You know, technically in what's called Somerset, but unless you're from that area, you have never heard of it, which is just a very small town next to Taunton, south of Boston And on my father's side, there's the cutters came over some on the Mayflower even. They've been here for hundreds of years. But his mother was Italian and Irish. His mother was English.”
2021-07-22 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 453 — Stephanie Cutter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, that's a good question. On my mother's side, they both of her parents and set of grandparents came over from Ireland.”
2021-07-22 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 453 — Stephanie Cutter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source