Before becoming a talk show host, Springer was active in politics in [[Cincinnati]], [[Ohio]] and first became a city council member in 1971. A prostitution scandal in 1974 unsaddled him only briefly and the city council elected him as mayor for one year in 1977-78. | Before becoming a talk show host, Springer was active in politics in [[Cincinnati]], [[Ohio]] and first became a city council member in 1971. A prostitution scandal in 1974 unsaddled him only briefly and the city council elected him as mayor for one year in 1977-78. |