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.
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.University of Connecticut men's basketball team win its fifth NCAA Tournament championship,“After winning the semifinals, you walk around downtown Houston, which is butt ugly," the Democrat said. “Not much there.”
"And you're going to go back and talk about ‘butt ugly?’ Which end was he looking from?” Turner said on KHOU-TV. “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.”
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