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Democrats are pushing an unlikely source — Jerry Springer — to run for governor in Ohio
Business Insider ^ | 05/30/2017 | Allan Smith and Maxwell Tani

Posted on 05/30/2017 9:10:53 AM PDT by DFG

Influential Ohio Democrats are pushing former Cincinnati mayor and daytime-TV host Jerry Springer to run for Ohio governor in 2018, more than half a dozen Democrats familiar with the race told Business Insider.

Many said Springer, who sought the Democratic nomination for governor of Ohio in 1982 and remains active in state politics, could be a good fit for the current political climate.

(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Ohio
KEYWORDS: anthonygonzalez; christinahagan; cincinnati; governor; jerryspringer; johnkasich; kasich; nitwit; ohio; springer
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To: DFG

Quintessential Democrat.


21 posted on 05/30/2017 9:31:44 AM PDT by all the best
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To: DFG

that’s all they have in their bull pen?


22 posted on 05/30/2017 9:32:05 AM PDT by llevrok (A group of baboons is called a "congress." Just sayin' .....)
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To: vette6387
... he was born in a Tube Staton in London

Are his parents American?

23 posted on 05/30/2017 9:32:48 AM PDT by yoe
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To: fidelis
“I just have this image of a free-for-all breaking out at his weekly cabinet meetings...”

Yeah, and bring in Whorealdo and whack him in the schnozzola with a chair again.

24 posted on 05/30/2017 9:33:31 AM PDT by vette6387
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To: DFG

I wouldn’t vote for Springer, but if he wins, he will give the WWE a run for the money in ratings.

5.56mm


25 posted on 05/30/2017 9:35:27 AM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: yoe
Another Al Franken?

More like another Bill Clinton. Couldn't keep his fly zipped. I had an instructor for Business Law at Univ of Cinc in 1985 - this was when Springer was the local TV news anchor ( funny thing his name was Matlock - way before the series. His law practice must have boomed with little old ladies after the series aired ). Anyway, he practiced law with Springer. He would tell us stories of what Springer was like when they went to law conventions. Bill Clinton could have taken lessons from him :-)

26 posted on 05/30/2017 9:37:17 AM PDT by TheCipher (Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself. Mark Twain)
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To: DFG

I’m guessing that Springer wants nothing to do with this. He’s almost 75 years old.

But just imagine the ads!!!


27 posted on 05/30/2017 9:38:12 AM PDT by proudpapa (Trump Pence earned it.)
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To: z3n

Springer is an Ultra-Left-Commie Womanizer.


28 posted on 05/30/2017 9:39:43 AM PDT by Polyxene (Out of the depths I have cried to Thee, O Lord; Lord, hear my voice.)
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To: yoe

Looks like they were Jewish refugees ( most likely Polish) who had escaped the Nazis.

Springer was born in Highgate tube station in London, England, while the station was in use as a shelter from German bombing during World War II, and grew up on Chandos Road, East Finchley. His parents, Margot (née Kallmann; a bank clerk) and Richard Springer (owner of a shoe shop), were Jewish refugees who escaped from Landsberg an der Warthe, Germany (now Gorzów Wielkopolski, Poland). His maternal grandmother Marie Kallmann, who was left behind, died in the gas trucks of Chelmno extermination camp (Poland). His paternal grandmother, Selma Springer (née Elkeles), died at the hospital in the Theresienstadt concentration camp (Czech Republic). Selma Springer’s brother, Dr. Hermann Elkeles, was a renowned Berlin doctor who also died at Theresienstadt concentration camp.
In January 1949, Springer immigrated with his parents to the United States, settling in Kew Gardens, Queens, New York, and attended Forest Hills High School. One of his earliest memories about current events was when he was 12 and watching the 1956 Democratic convention on television where he saw and was impressed by John F. Kennedy.


29 posted on 05/30/2017 9:41:43 AM PDT by vette6387
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To: DFG

I say - Yeah - go for it!!


30 posted on 05/30/2017 9:52:15 AM PDT by KosmicKitty (Waiting for inspirations)
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To: DFG

Well, he IS more credible than their current Governor.

[cymbal crash]


31 posted on 05/30/2017 10:01:24 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: vette6387
His bio says he was born in a Tube Staton in London, so he’s a Brit and ineligible to be President.

He's a DemocRAT, so change it where he was born in Kenya and he'll have no problems.

32 posted on 05/30/2017 10:05:42 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (RuPaul and Yertle - our illustrious Republican leaders up the Hill - God help us!)
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To: Mr. K

The only person I can think of who expresses the Democrat ideal more would be Larry Flint.


33 posted on 05/30/2017 10:17:11 AM PDT by Savage Beast (MegaMAGA!)
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To: DFG

A Jerry Brown east.


34 posted on 05/30/2017 10:41:48 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacted the most.)
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To: DFG

He can’t be any worse than Kasich.


35 posted on 05/30/2017 11:34:31 AM PDT by AlaskaErik (I served and protected my country for 31 years. Progressives spent that time trying to destroy it.)
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To: DFG

Couldn’t be worse than Kaysuck.


36 posted on 05/30/2017 11:35:43 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents - Know Islam, No Peace -No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: vette6387

Don’t tell that to the Cruzers.


37 posted on 05/30/2017 11:37:01 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents - Know Islam, No Peace -No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: DFG
Democrats are pushing an unlikely source — Jerry Springer — to run for governor in Ohio

Just what the dems need - another clown!

38 posted on 05/30/2017 11:52:16 AM PDT by 21st Century Crusader (August 26, 1191)
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To: DFG

So glad I bailed on Ohio.


39 posted on 05/30/2017 12:30:50 PM PDT by Buckeye Battle Cry (Charlie, here comes the deuce, and when you speak of me speak well.)
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To: DFG

Don’t you just love the smell of Democrat desperation in the morning?


40 posted on 05/30/2017 2:19:22 PM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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