Brewed Fresh Daily

"When will people start to realize that Jerry Springer is a viable candidate for the US Senate? Again this region is so blinded by it's own embarrassment that it refuses to take seriously the fact that Springer has committed to spending $5 to $10 million of his own money to go up against George Voinovich. (Did you see Voinovich on C-SPAN the other day mumbling about partial-birth abortion? This is the most important issue of the day?) Springer, a former Cincinnati mayor and five-term councilman with a law degree from Northwestern who worked as one of Robert F. Kennedy's presidential campaign aides, whose family had fled the Holocaust and emigrated to the US for political and religious asylum, was an activist lawyer who spearheaded the effort to reduce the voting age from 21 to 18, even testifying in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee in support of ratification of the 26th Amendment to the Constitution. As for his television career, he has won seven Emmys for his nightly commentaries (remember when local news offered those?), which were a precursor to his Final Thought segments. With 98% name recognition (Fingerhut who?), a virtually unlimited campaign pool, and the debating chops to go up against any politician or media challenge, coupled with the lack of strong candidates in the Ohio Democratic party, Springer starts to look not only viable, but formidable."