The UConn Huskies men’s basketball team won its fifth National Championship in program history on Monday. UConn ripped through the NCAA Tournament and finished with a perfect record in nonconference games this season. While it’s jovial in Storrs, the Governor of Connecticut got a little catty about the city they won the title in.
Dem. Governor Ned Lamont took a shot at the city of Houston, Texas while on a radio hit on WPLR-FM according to ESPN. “After winning the semifinals, you walk around downtown Houston, which is butt-ugly,” Lamont said. “Not much there.”
The City of Houston didn’t take kindly to the Governor’s comments. Namely, its Mayor. Dem. Sylvester Turner Mayor, the city’s elected official since 2015, responded back to Lamont and didn’t hold back on an appearance on KHOU-TV.
“Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner, also a Democrat, responded that he did not appreciate the governor ‘throwing shade’ at his city after it went to the trouble to ‘feed you, dine you, host you, house you.’
‘And you’re going to go back and talk abut ‘butt-ugly?’ Which end was he looking from?'” ESPN wrote via the AP.
Lamont would back off his comments later, implying that he felt he might have been a certain, particular horse breed about it. “Maybe the governor’s looking at the wrong end of a beautiful horse. I guess I resemble that comment,” Lamont said.
[ESPN]
