Monday June 30, 2008
U.S. Rep. John Larson, a former state Senate President, was up in the state Capitol today during an aptly named congressional recess, to announce that he filed federal legislation in attempt to help consumers on oil prices.
He was literally singing the blues, when he decided to stumble over the name of iconic bottom-line investor T. Boone Pickens, when Larson instead called him “T.Bones Pickens” as if the multi-billionaire were an old Mississippi Delta guitarist, or Nashville music producer.
Speaking about the long-shot schemes to expand arctic drilling, Larson said “Even T. Bones Pickens, for God’s sakes says no we can’t drill our way out of this problem.”
