Ned Lamont is Right
Twitter had a flurry of defensive tweets from many professional Houstonians expressing outrage over Connecticut governor Ned Lamont’s comments during his visit to the city for the NCAA final four, which was won by the UConn Huskies. Lamont was interviewed by a Connecticut radio station and said, “You walk around downtown Houston, which is butt ugly, not much there except for the UConn fans.”
This was reported in the Houston Chronicle, and it snowballed from there.
One can’t take any of this seriously. Just sports-adjacent trash talking. But I wonder if Houstonians ever think about just how ugly and unfriendly Houston appears to any not from here. The best tweet I saw in response to Lamont was this one.
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