Today’s award for poor taste, or TMI, goes to Speaker of the House Chris Donovan, D-Meriden, who this morning told the Council of Small Towns gathering at the Cromwell Plaza the story of the little boy pulled out from under a collapsed building in Haiti and used it as a metaphor. “And they freed the little boy out of this rubble… He just reached to the sky smiling, so grateful at what happened. It was a little miracle lookiing at this and the fact that he had been trapped for all this time…It brought tears to your eyes just to see that. I think we need that to think about what’s going on with that country and how everybody’s trying to pull people out and save people…We feel that certainly in state government. We’re trying to get the job done. We certainly don’t have the problems they have in Haiti, but we have pressures. We have pressures. We have the worst economic downturn that I’ve ever seen, that my parents talked about, but I never saw. We have responded on the state level. We have responded on the local level…What I think we need to do is figure out..ah..that the people around that little boy, how we work together. How we figure out that partnership to pull ourselves out of this economic downturn….”