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Jerry Springer Urged to Run for Governor

May 30, 2017 at 11:56 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Influential Ohio Democrats are pushing former Cincinnati mayor and daytime-TV host Jerry Springer to run for Ohio governor in 2018,” Business Insider reports.

“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.”

Springer’s previous run resulted in an extraordinary ad where he admitted to paying a prostitute.

Extra Bonus Quote of the Day

March 15, 2016 at 4:51 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 9 Comments

“When I first started watching the Republican debates, I said that, you know, if they’re going to do my show, they should start paying me.”

— Jerry Springer, quoted by Politico.

Jerry Springer Could Host a GOP Debate

March 4, 2016 at 10:38 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 19 Comments

Jerry Springer, a former mayor of Cincinnati, told the Financial Times that the Republican presidential candidates “would be prime contenders for his show if they were ordinary Americans.”

Said Springer: “Clearly they could be on our show, but now they’ve gone off the deep end, and we would start bleeping out some of what they’d say.”

Taegan Goddard is the founder of Political Wire, one of the earliest and most influential political web sites. He also runs Political Job Hunt, Electoral Vote Map and the Political Dictionary.

Goddard spent more than a decade as managing director and chief operating officer of a prominent investment firm in New York City. Previously, he was a policy adviser to a U.S. Senator and Governor.

Goddard is also co-author of You Won - Now What? (Scribner, 1998), a political management book hailed by prominent journalists and politicians from both parties. In addition, Goddard's essays on politics and public policy have appeared in dozens of newspapers across the country.

Goddard earned degrees from Vassar College and Harvard University. He lives in New York with his wife and three sons.

Goddard is the owner of Goddard Media LLC.

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