More on Cookie May 4, 2008
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The Post-Dispatch dug deeper into the life of Charles Lee “Cookie” Thornton. Among the highlights:
* The Meacham Park annexation that black residents were/are supposedly so upset about, that resulted in the Kirkwood Commons shopping center, the one that some would have us think resulted in the seething pot of resentment that sparked, the shootings, is one that Thornton supported. He thought he would get some destruction and demolition business for this “construction company,” and would have had it if not for the fact that he couldn’t demonstrate that he could actually do the work.
* Ironically, the reason Thornton got those multitude of tickets is that the city tax money generated from Kirkwood Commons was used to fix up what remained of Meacham Park. In that same spirit, the city started handing out tickets for code violations, many of those going to Thornton.
* But most of those tickets came before 2002. The city gave up on trying to make him behave via citations.
* Generally, Thornton was always hustling to earn a quick fortune. Because he had the Power of Attorney over his parents’ real estate, he took out as many mortgages and home equity loans as he could on them to finance his “construction business.”
The lesson remains the same. Liberal Kirkwood was hoisted on the petard of its racial pandering.
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