Jerry Springer and CPS

The identity of contributors to the successful Cincinnati Public Schools levy campaign has been public information for more than a month, but another interesting tidbit came out this week, courtesy of the Clark Montessori High School newsletter (see page 6):

Perfector of the sleaze/chat TV genre and former Cincinnati Mayor Jerry Springer gave $1,000 to the campaign. He's listed as Gerald Springer in the campaign finance reports, and he gave an address at 175 E. Delaware in Chicago.

Many elections experts believe another Chicagoan, Barack Obama, is the primary reason the levy passed, by ginning up liberal voter turnout to carry the tax hike. But Springer, one of the campaign's largest individual donors, also played a part.