Both politicians - Beryle Burgwald and Willie Milsap - called my editor the day this was published each asking if they were supposed to be a rat in this cartoon - to which Dave graciously explained that one was the cat who gave a good chase and the other was supposed to be the mouse that got away. If you look at their ears and the sheer size of Burgwald in the drawing it is clear that neither is a cartoon rat. I have tried to avoid depicting individual councilmen ever since...