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Danbury Mayor Names Sewage Plant After John Oliver Following ‘Last Week Tonight’s Story On Jury Selection In Connecticut

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24.08.2020 - 01:11

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Dino-Ray Ramos Associate Editor/ReporterDuring the most recent episode of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver unpacked the racial disparities that come with the jury selection process in Connecticut and at one point, dragged the city of Danbury saying “If you’re going to forget a town in Connecticut, why not forget Danbury?

Because, and this is true, f*** Danbury!” It didn’t take long for Danbury’s Mayor Mark Boughton to retaliate on Facebook.“John Oliver, don’t mess with Danbury,” Bougton wrote in the caption to a video on Facebook.

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