Cincinnati: City of rare salads

Several blog commenters (thanks) pointed out this story, headlined "Meet Caspar the friendly Swiss intern," in The Hill, a Capitol Hill newspaper. It's about Caspar Oertli, a Swiss 18-year-old, who briefly interned on the Steve Driehaus campaign.

Oertli did not much like Cincinnati, it turns out.

Oertli is friendly and shy with shaggy brown hair that hangs in his eyes and a big smile he exposes every so often. One thing Oertli is not so friendly about is Cincinnati. He dislikes it thoroughly and throughout the interview sprinkles in the many reasons why he does not care for the Southern Ohio town.

Food? Not so much in Cincinnati. “In Cincinnati it was rare to get a salad,” he says. “You can even do your vegetable greasy.”

The weather also didn’t cooperate. “I didn’t have a car and it was raining most of the time,” he noted.

Driehaus tells the Enquirer's Howard Wilkinson that Oertli, in his month-long internship with his campaign, "never complained about Cincinnati that I know of."

"He was a nice kid, a hard worker,’’ said Driehaus, adding that the Swiss youth was referred to his campaign by a local booster. He did express some disappointment when told his young intern had gone to work for a Republican congressman.

"When I get to Washington, mabe I can switch him back,’’ Driehaus said. "I’ll bring him a salad."

Read the full story here