Google is wonderful! You can learn a lot of things you never planned on learning when you look at the irrelevant links. This morning, while I was searching for something else which I may be posting later, I stumbled on a link which took me to this one.
It is a play called Labor of Love which tells the story of Liz Anderson, former Planning Commissioner, Metro Council member, unsuccessful DFL candidate in Ward Five [in the first council election by wards] in 1982, and former director of the Como Zoo and Conservatory under Mayors Coleman the first and Kelly.
I don’t know who wrote the play, but it obviously had to be a person or persons close to Ms. Anderson. The play is obviously somewhat fictionalized [e.g. Liz ran for the Senate in 1974, not the House where Tom Osthoff was seeking to unseat Bob Ferderer and Hugo Masanz would never have clsimed to have attended Como High School. He had to be close to 50 when it opened] and highly sympathetic to the subject, but interesting for those of us who remember the 1982 election and some of the other things she has done.
I supported Liz in that 1982 election and was very disappointed when she lost in the election that almost gave control of the City Council to the GOP. [See Election Strategies, starting with the fifth paragraph. You can use the link or scroll down to November 26.]
If somebody knows more about this work, please feel free to leave a comment telling me.
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3 comments:
I don’t think I ever met Liz, but I do remember Hugo. I like that debate scene. It almost seems real.
Somehow I can just see Liz in that telephone operator scene. If they ever make that into a movie, they better get Lily Tomlin to play the part.
And I like that debate scene too.
Billie
Rice Street
I suspect that there was a cheap shot ar Peter Stumpf in there, but I thought the whole thing was really pretty good, but a lot of dramatic licence was taken.
John
South Como
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