Springer To Announce Decision On Senate Run Next Week

[Vis Numar]

The link has an online poll of Voinovich against Springer, 58-42 Voinovich leading with 800 votes, when this was posted.

http://www.channelcincinnati.com/politics/2372560/detail.html

Springer will announce his decision next Wednesday at 2 p.m. in Columbus, WLWT Eyewitness News 5 reported. "He simply needs a few more days," a statement from Butland said. "It's obviously a huge decision with many ramifications, not just for Jerry and his family, but also for the constituency he cares about and the Democratic Party he loves."

[ThorsteinVeblen]

1. Somone please shoot me...now

Has it come to this?

Is Springer working as a RNC plant? What is trying to do? Destroy the whole party?

[Rose Siding]

2. Everyone, hold your fire!

This guy is smart, media savvy and on the right side of every issue I've heard him speak about.

If Jerry has the stones to run- to subject himself to a campaign- after the career path he chose, surely he has what it takes to stand up to BushCo and the neo-repub mutants.

More power to him as long as at his announcement, he has male dancers :evilgrin:

[IndianaGreen]

3. I heard that Springer was not running, he was going to renew the show!

I saw Springer on TV on the Keith Olberman show and Jerry was really good, very focused on the issues. A coworker of mine is native to Cincinnati and he said that Jerry was a good mayor.

[ThorsteinVeblen]

6. Jerry may be right on the issues but he is a disgusting human

We don't want him on our side.

He is a joke - a dirty one at that.

[realFedUp]

4. you go for it Jerry...

we could use more vocal defendents of real Democracy in
the Senate

[jiacinto]

5. Lord help us

nt

[bluestateguy]

7. Prediction: Springer will lose by 10 points

He'll lose, but polls will show it to be a closer race than many people think it will be. He has a lot of money. Voinovich is a mighty tough opponent, no matter who the challenger is.

[osaMABUSh]

8. He is educated with a soild political background then white trash

talk show. My conservative buddy from Cleveland said he will vote for Springer. I think it he looks at it like Ohio's answer to Jesse Ventura - the contrarian vote.

Actually, I think Springer has an excellent resume:

Jerry was born in London, England in 1944 in the midst of his family fleeing from the Holocaust. At age five, Jerry immigrated to New York with his parents. He can still recall the sense of awe and anticipation he felt as he first saw the Statue of Liberty and crossed the gates of freedom on Ellis Island. Having to adapt to a new country left an indelible mark on Springer. Being the outsider taught him acceptance, tact and compassion – the same qualities he currently draws upon as a talk show host. After earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science from Tulane University in 1965, he went on to earn a degree in law from Northwestern University in 1968. His first job after college was working as one of Senator Robert F. Kennedy’s presidential campaign aides. After Kennedy’s death, Jerry joined a law firm in Cincinnati, Ohio and moved into the political arena himself. He was elected Mayor of Cincinnati with the largest plurality in the city’s history. At the age of 33, he was one of the country’s youngest mayors. In 1982, Jerry launched his career in broadcasting as a political reporter and commentator on Cincinnati’s WLWT-TV. Two years later Jerry became anchor and managing editor and was Cincinnati’s number one news anchor until he relinquished the post in January of 1993. Springer received seven Emmy Awards for his nightly commentaries, the forerunner to his now famous “Final Thought,” and was voted television’s “Best Anchor” for five consecutive years by readers of Cincinnati Magazine. Of his professional achievements, Springer is the most proud of his involvement with Cincinnati Reaches Out contribution on-site reporting from Ethiopia and Sudan where he documented local Cincinnati efforts to provide assistance to famine-stricken Africans.
Always ready to accept new challenges, Jerry became a professional talk show host when he was tapped by Multimedia Entertainment to add yet another category to his professional repertoire - “The Jerry Springer Show”

[PennyLane]

9. I remember him in Cincinati..........

He wasn't a bad politician, until he got busted coming out of that brothel in Covington, Ky.

[PartyPooper]

10. Jerry!, Jerry!, Jerry!, Jerry!, Jerry!, Jerry!, Jerry!, Jerry!, Jerry!

:evilgrin:

[tlb]

11. David Letterman summed it up

Elect Jerry and Ohio will change it's license plate motto to " Home of Teen Prostitutes ".

I don't care how smart and savvy a mayor he may have once been, it's not possible to take him seriously after so many seasons of that show.