“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.
“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, 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.”
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