They may be out there, but they haven't come forward. Monday afternoon, as the city braced for word on whether Cincinnati police Officer Stephen Roach would be indicted in the Thomas shooting, the mayor walked up and down Elm Street, shaking hands with people sitting on stoops and popping into storefront businesses, the way a candidate for public office often does. But this was no campaign visit. Mr. Luken passed by businesses where owners were hurriedly boarding their store windows to ward off vandals and looters. This whole neighborhood could explode.
People are angry.
You can put a cat in the oven, but that don't make it a biscuit. He's done as well as you can expect. And, the fact is, even if voters like Ms. Eubanks were dissatisfied with Mr. Luken's performance, they wouldn't have much of an alternative. There is no Republican candidate for mayor. Nor is there a candidate with the backing of the Charter Committee, Cincinnati's third political party.