Thorpe fights for position
On a dreary, drizzly Saturday afternoon — across from a boarded-up liquor store and a dilapidated auto-repair shop — Cordelia Thorpe is handing out sponges.
“So you can clean up democracy, clean up the ward,” she tells one man who comes to the door of his room inside a senior living complex. “We need to go back to basics.”
Then, she offers him a cupcake. He smiles and thanks her politely.
But the essence of Thorpe, one of the four candidates vying for Ward 22 alderman, is not only in the delivery of her symbolic sponges or sweets, but also in the way she approaches...
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