Word: lukens
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...thing he hears is, "I promise not to run for mayor." Anywhere else, that would be a lame joke; at 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...
...jokes for Jon Stewart, but it is Cincinnati's 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...
...next mayor will enjoy a legislative veto, a term of four years instead of two and appointment power over committee chairmen. "People are looking forward to having someone take charge," says George Bishop, a political-science professor at the University of Cincinnati. "But there's ambivalence about whether Luken should be that person...
...polls have handicapped the race. Four candidates are running in a 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...
...they?ve got all sort of things happening now. The police have been on and are staying on 12-12 shifts at least until Thursday morning. And they have the Justice department looking into the city?s police practices. Then of course there?s Mayor Luken?s committee, Cincinnati Community Action Now, or Cincinnati CAN. And they can, of course, but it?s going to take them a while...