Jerry Springer wins "Democrat of the Year" award from Ohio Dem. party.

Cincinnati Enquirer ^ | Monday, May 10, 2004 | Gregory Korte

[yankeedame]

Monday, May 10, 2004

Edwards slams abuse at Democrats' dinner

By Gregory Korte
The Cincinnati Enquirer

COLUMBUS - The only way to send a message to the rest of the world that Americans emphatically reject the humiliating abuse of Iraqi prisoners is to elect John F. Kerry as president, Sen. John Edwards told Ohio Democrats at their annual dinner.

"All of us - it goes without saying - condemn it. It goes against the values we hold as Americans. Just think about the damage it's doing to our image around the world," Edwards said Saturday night, adding that the prisoner abuse scandal is making the mission in Iraq "much harder."

While he called for the resignation of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, Edwards said the buck should stop at the White House. "This is not about the secretary of defense. It's about the president of the United States."

Edwards, the Democratic North Carolina senator who dropped out of the presidential race after the Ohio primary, called Ohio "ground zero" in the presidential race.

Though often mentioned as a possible running mate for Kerry, Edwards said afterward that the vice presidential selection process was confidential and that he wasn't in Ohio to campaign for the job. Under questioning from reporters, Edwards admitted only that he thought he could help bring disillusioned Howard Dean voters back into the Democratic fold.

Still, his address to 1,300 Ohio Democrats sounded much like his campaign stump speech, speaking of "two Americas" - two health care systems, two public school systems and 35 million people living in poverty in a nation of vast wealth.

And he said politicians aren't doing enough to promote racial equality.

"I have seen the ugliest face of discrimination and segregation," he said. "These debates we have in Washington about judges - this is not an abstract issue. We need to know with certainty that these judges will enforce the laws against discrimination."

The Saturday night event - emceed by Cincinnati Vice Mayor Alicia Reece and House Minority Leader Chris Redfern, D-Catawba Island - raised $250,000 for the Ohio Democratic Party.

Former Cincinnati Mayor Jerry Springer, who moved back to Cincinnati last month to help campaign for Democrats around the state, won the "Democrat of the Year" award from the party.

For the first time in history, Springer said, Americans can't guarantee that their children will have a better life than they have - in part because of tuition increases that have resulted from cutbacks in state and federal funding.

Springer, who aborted a run for the U.S. Senate last year but who has hinted interest in the 2006 governor's race, urged the party faithful to return to their liberal roots.

"Don't try to out-Republican the Republicans," Springer told the Democrats. "We can't play golf as well, anyway."

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[dc-zoo]

A fitting reward for the king of sleeze.

[SedVictaCatoni]

Ladies and gentlemen: Everything you need to know about the Ohio Democratic Party, in one headline.

[TXBSAFH]

He is fast talking, questionable morals, sleazy, and looks good on TV. Yes he is the perfect rat.

[stainlessbanner]

Jerry, Jerry, Jerry!

[motzman]

Just think about the damage it's doing to our image around the world,

The "damage" is nothing compared to what Springer and his ilk have done...

[Badeye]

Sometime you just have to regret being on a ping list....like when you get a ping to a Springer story.....LOL!

This is a great example of just how lame the Ohio Democratic Party has become in recent years.

btw, I got a notice in the mail courtesy of my RINO govenor, Bobby "Tax Em" Taft. Seems Bobby wants me to pay an addition $494 dollars in taxes on a Polaris quad (700 Sportsman) I bought last year. Wants me to provide my tax return, and explain how I use my quad to enhance my property.

Lord how I despise Bobby Taft...but I will provide the documentation showing I use this quad primarily for "fence inspection / repair" and field maintenance, not to mention spraying and bushhoggin, and for wood splitting.

Its because of RINO's like Taft this state has a problem with unemployment, job creation, and getting new businesses to open here. Not President Bush. I just wish Dubya would say it plainly, instead of being nice to this RINO.

[reagan_fanatic]

Springer, who aborted a run for the U.S. Senate last year but who has hinted interest in the 2006 governor's race...

Will he have some bald guy named Steve as his Lieutenant Guv?

[Kenton]

Today on Springer - Fat white trailer-trash woman confronts her father's transgendered black lover for breaking up their happy family; transgendered white trailer-trash prostitute confesses that she is really a man; former alleged lesbian First Lady confesses that she is really a transgendered white trailer-trash prostitute... and a myriad of other fascinating vignettes and tawdry morality plays designed to assure all those couch potato viewers out in Springerland that there really are people more screwed up than their families...

[JennysCool]

The only way to send a message to the rest of the world that Americans emphatically reject the humiliating abuse of Iraqi prisoners is to elect John F. Kerry as president, Sen. John Edwards told Ohio Democrats

That's officially the screwiest reason for electing a president I've ever heard.

[E Rocc]

He is fast talking, questionable morals, sleazy, and looks good on TV. Yes he is the perfect rat.

Also because he has to mind everyone's business and when he tries to "help", he usually makes things worse. Yep, the perfect rat.

Of course, he has Steve (Wilkos), who has very little to say but makes sense when he says it, and ends up cleaning up after the Democrats (Jerry and his "guests") quite effectively. He's also ex military and ex(?) Chicago PD. He's the Republican. >:)

-Eric

[Badeye]

Unfortunately, there isn't a viable Third Party here, or anywhere else for that matter, which just compounds what you noted in your post.

I know some libertarians here....to wrapped up in the small issue stuff to be effective in a statewide, or even county wide, campaign.

[Arpege92]

Wasn't Jerky Springer thrown out of political office already?

[brownsfan]

And the Ohio Dems are SOOOOO bad that they gain national attention: Traficant, Kucinich, Springer... good gosh. Talk about lowering the bar!

[brownsfan]

I think so. I think he lost Mayor of Cincinatti cuz he employed a couple of hookers, and paid with a check.

[job]

Jerry! Jerry!

Used to watch him on my lunch hour during law school.

He started like Donahue, with various topics, some serious, some not. Then went to two basic ideas, basically a KKK or neonazi show, or some kind of goofy love triangle show.

Then, it just became a goofy triangle, quadrangle, octagon show based on characters from your nearest trailer park. Haven't seen it in years.

Even if it was fake, like wrestling, there were still some pretty pathetic characters with missing teefuses and bad grammar.

P.S. I did not to mean imply that Mexican wrestling is fake.

[Arpege92]

"I think he lost Mayor of Cincinatti cuz he employed a couple of hookers, and paid with a check."

LOL He's not only crooked....he's stupid!