I met with state Sen. Edith Prague, D-Columbia this afternoon for a report I’m working on.
While waiting outside of her capitol office an aide pointed out a signed and framed editorial cartoon by the Hartford Courant’s Bob Englehart depicting the 84-year-old Prague as a business-sucking vampire.
You can view the cartoon and Englehart’s explanation of it here.
Englehart drew the piece in opposition to Prague’s crusade as a Labor Committee chairman to pass legislation mandating certain companies provide their workers paid sick leave. Critics argue these are not the economic times to be passing new mandates on business.
Prague anticipates the Labor Committee will pass the legislation on to the full state Senate on Tuesday. You can read up on the legislation as well as plenty of testimony, pro and con, submitted at a February 25 public hearing here.
As for the cartoon, Prague recalled her neighbor phoning her the day it appeared and telling her she had to look at the newspaper.
“He thought it was hysterical,” Prague said.
She said she obtained the signed and framed copy so her great-grand-children will know what she looked like.
“At least he put my earings on,” Prague said of her caricature.
