Lib on Lib catfight!!! Connecticut governor, Houston mayor bicker at Final 4

[Ralph Wiggum]

HARTFORD, Conn. -- Connecticut's governor took a shot at the city of Houston following the NCAA tournament's Final Four, which was held in that city last weekend.

Gov. Ned Lamont, who traveled to Houston and was on hand Monday night to watch the University of Connecticut men's basketball team win its fifth NCAA tournament championship, talked about his visit earlier this week on WPLR-FM's "Chaz and AJ" show.

"After winning the semifinals, you walk around downtown Houston, which is butt-ugly," the Democrat said. "Not much there."

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 about 'butt-ugly?' Which end was he looking from?" Turner said on KHOU-TV.

Lamont made an apology of sorts Thursday after being asked about his comments during an unrelated news event.

"We had a ball in Houston during the NCAA Final Four," Lamont said. "The people there were incredibly gracious and welcoming for us, and the basketball game was pretty darn good as well."

Lamont also emphasized that he was joking around on the radio show and said he enjoyed Turner's response to his comments.

"He said: 'Maybe the governor's looking at the wrong end of a beautiful horse,' " Lamont said. "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."

https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/36095309/connecticut-governor-houston-mayor-bicker-final-four

 

[DefiantSix]

I would think that a leftist scumbag like Gov. Lamont would be more appreciative of the products of decades of unrestrained leftist scum policies. What he saw in Houston is inevitibly going to show up in Hartford and the surrounding cess pool of Connecticut, if it's not already obvious to anyone who doesn't hide behind the tinted windows of his gub'mint provided limosine.

[Eupher]

I would think that a leftist scumbag like Gov. Lamont would be more appreciative of the products of decades of unrestrained leftist scum policies. What he saw in Houston is inevitibly going to show up in Hartford and the surrounding cess pool of Connecticut, if it's not already obvious to anyone who doesn't hide behind the tinted windows of his gub'mint provided limosine.

Bingo. Absolutely on point. Lamont couldn't put that together with an erector set.

I've driven through the Hartford area a few times and visited a suburb once. Despite Hartford's rep as being the Home of the Insurance Companies, it's a meh city.