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...Channel 5, it's a necessary disclaimer. Talk-show host Jerry Springer was an anchor at the station after serving as mayor from 1977 to 1978; current officeholder Charlie Luken quit his job as a WLWT anchor to run for the post. And one day last June, anchor Courtis Fuller read the news at noon, handed Jobe his resignation and jumped into the race against Luken...
...most important mayoral contest in decades. The city is still trying to recover from the riots that broke out last April after an unarmed African-American man named Timothy Thomas was shot and killed by a white police officer. Now Luken, who is white, is trying to fend off Fuller, an African American, who sees the race as a referendum on Luken's handling of the unrest. (Cincinnati, pop. 331,000, is 43% black...
...Sept. 11 open primary. The candidates who will square off in a Nov. 6 election are expected to be Luken, 50, a Democrat with a $240,000 war chest and backing among the city's Republican business elite (the G.O.P. didn't even field a candidate), and Fuller, 44, the novice choice of the Charter Committee, a local third party...
...have great respect for Charlie," Fuller said, after gently attacking Luken for mishandling race relations. Fuller recalled the riots' final spark: a city-council meeting on April 9, at which residents shouted for an explanation of the Thomas shooting. Luken walked out as the meeting degenerated into a screaming match. "I would not have walked out," Fuller told the audience of 300. "To walk out, I think, took the lid off the pot." Luken responded that he had left because he had appointments to keep. Within hours, crowds had started rioting...
...months later, Fuller declared his candidacy. "This is not the time for a coronation," he said, referring to the fact that Luken would have run virtually unopposed. Having raised just $20,000, Fuller has moved from the suburbs into an apartment in town and is running a grass-roots campaign while courting business leaders. Luken, however, is a seasoned pro, a Cincinnati mayor in the '80s and one-term Congressman. He has been forming "reconciliation committees" and taking other steps to mend race relations...