Word: lukens
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...Michigan's Apex Broach & Machinery Co. Peter J. Nord, president of Schauer Manufacturing Corp. in Cincinnati, which makes battery-charging machines, drew loud applause by declaring, "There are going to be people who are dumb and stupid and screw up no matter what we do." Ohio Democratic Congressman Thomas Luken showed up to cheer on the manufacturers. Said he: "Probably no recent issue has snowballed so quickly...
...death touched off three days of riots in late April. "I still don't know the truth," said Thomas' mother, Angela Leisure. "I still have no satisfaction." Leisure has filed wrongful-death and civil rights suits naming the police and Roach. Scattered violence followed the verdict, and Mayor Charlie Luken imposed a curfew. But the city has largely remained calm...
...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...
Analysts expect Luken to prevail. "Charlie comes from a family where politics runs through the veins," says Gene Beaupre, a political-science instructor at Cincinnati's Xavier University. "Courtis has to learn to be political. It's one thing to do interviews; it's another to be on the other side of the camera...