Lawmaker, Attempting To Get Jiggy With Classic Beer Slogan, Misses The Mark

Friday May 30, 2008

Blog-o-rama wants to scroll back 24 hours or so to the rally outside the Capitol for the healthcare-pooling bill that has as good a chance for being vetoed by Gov. Jodi Rell as Big Brown has to win the Belmont next weekend.
Indeed, since Rell now has 14 days to approve it or issue a veto, the race is now on to see which occurs first: Big Brown hits the finish or the pooling bill gets deep sixed by the business-friendly Republican governor.
Anyway, so lawmakers, union types, cities and towns and non-profits were well represented among the 110 or so participants pushing for the governor’s approval, even though she was in Kentucky with the Council of State Governments.
House Majority Leader Chris Donovan, D-Meriden, led the proceedings and got everyone to chant “Good plan, costs less” as many as seven times for themselves and the eventual CTN audience.
Donovan then introduced Senate Majority Leader Martin Looney, D-New Haven, who tried to make a joke in homage of that classic 1975 ad campaign for Miller Lite beer that according to Wikipedia, quoting “Advertising Age,” was the 8th most-popular campaign ever.
“Less filling, tastes good,” Looney said into the microphone. Wrong. It was “Tastes great, less filling.”