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...author, a senior in North House, has been active in Cleveland politics for several years as a member of U.S. Congressmen Louis Stokes' staff. He recently returned from Cleveland where he spent ten days working for the black Independent candidate, Arnold Pinkney...
...well as anyone that the city could no longer move forward under his direction, since the forces arrayed against him were too great. But as he withdrew, he made it clear that he would play a major role in the selection of his successor. His favorite was Arnold Pinkney, the black School Board President who had served as Stokes' administrative assistant. Because most of Cleveland's black political leaders, led by the Mayor and his brother, U.S. Congressman Louis Stokes, had withdrawn from the county Democratic Party because of the absence of blacks at the policy-making level. Pinkney chose...
...seeds of Independent Pinkney's defeat were sown at the same time Stokes was rejoicing at Carney's victory. Immediately after the primary, Stokes elatedly proclaimed that the way was now cleared for a race between "two gentlemen." And in words that would come back to haunt him, he added, "I am discounting the man who raised our real estate taxes, Mr. Perk." For despite every effort to switch black votes back to Pinkney, including two letters and another recorded message from the Mayor, the inroads that Carney had made in the black community could not be counteracted. Stokes badly...
...With Carney as an opponent, however, Perk could count on a large Democratic crossover. He was able to equate both of his opponents with Carl Stokes, and therefore capitalized on the white backlash. The anti-Stokes support that would have gone to Garofoli now gravitated to Perk. While both Pinkney and Carney were unfolding detailed plans to help cure the city's financial problems. Perk based his entire campaign on a law-and-order, anti-corruption, anti-Stokes platform. In a city beset by critical problems of health, housing, and unemployment. Perk had the gall to stand before the City...
Forty per cent of Cleveland's voters are black. Most politics-watchers had expected the two white candidates to divide the majority vote, allowing Pinkney and Stokes black machine to win. It didn't happen because Cleveland's whites, a collection of Bohemians, Lithuanians, Slovaks, Croats, Polish and Irish, united around conservative Perk. They did this despite their traditional attraction to the Democratic party. Once again, race beat party...