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Connecticut Governor, Houston Mayor Trade Barbs After UConn’s Win in City

All is not well among two of our nation’s elected officials following the Final Four.

Connecticut governor Ned Lamont was in Houston, the site of the men’s Final Four, as UConn completed their national championship run. Lamont had some choice words for the city of Houston after his weekend in Texas, according to a report from ESPN.

“After the winning the semifinals, you walk around downtown Houston, which is butt-ugly…not much there,” Lamont told the Chaz and AJ Show on WPLR-FM earlier this week.

Houston mayor Sylvester Turner did not take kindly to Lamont “throwing shade” at the city. 

“We feed you, dine you, host you, house you…and you’re going to go back and talk about butt-ugly? Which end was he looking from?” Turner responded on KHOU-TV.

After seeing Turner’s response, Lamont insisted he was joking around.

“We had a ball in Houston during the NCAA Final Four,” he said. The people there were incredibly gracious and welcoming for us and the basketball game was pretty darn good as well. [Turner] said ‘Maybe the governor’s looking at the wrong end of a beautiful horse.’ I guess I resemble that comment. I want to say more importantly that nothing compares to the beauty of that amazing basketball championship on Monday night.”

All’s well that ends well? What an odd controversy. 

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