Ed and I were very focused on our pizzas at suppertime last night. Seated on the terrace of the restaurant, with a spectacular view of sunset over Tucson and the mountains beyond, we became aware of the conversations among ten or so people at the table next to us.
"Sounds like Dems, " I said to Ed as we both could not help but overhear the support for President Obama and the ongoing analysis of the day's political happenings.
We got up to leave, and being a child of Stan (my Dad has always loved talking to people, whether he knows them or not. Right, Dad?), I stopped by their table and said, "Hey, you guys sound like Dems."
Well, they were Democrats and it turned out that the local Democratic club was meeting that night, right there, and that the guest speaker was David Fitzsimmons, editorial cartoonist for the Arizona Daily Star whose work is syndicated in over 700 publications worldwide.
We showed up at the Dem meeting, enjoyed David's talk, complete with cartooning, and got to meet David. We also turned out to be the 99th and 100th persons to join that group of Democrats and David took advantage of that notoriety and called us up front for some fun cartooning.
Here's the cartoon that David drew of us. Yes, he did use a jungle theme for the drawing. Not my fault since David has artistic license. Make that Democratic artistic license!
Thank you to David for the drawing and to Karen Wiley for her photography skills.
Copyright 2012
Wanda Hayes Eichler
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