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Image Credit - Global News[/caption]It seems that the Connecticut city is in no mood to waste an opportunity to receive a sizeable donation from comedian John Oliver for about a weeks-long joke about the name of a sewage plant in the area.
Danbury Mayor, Mark Boughton said on WTNH-TV that he is ready to accept Oliver’s challenge to name the city’s sewage plant after his name of Oliver accepts to donate $55000 to the local charities.
On Sunday, through a Facebook video, Boughton has stated that there is one strict stipulation to the facility’s renaming and said that they have one very specific condition. He said that Oliver has to come down to Danbury and has to be physically present when he cuts the ribbon.
This announcement is the latest volley in a war of words between the host of HBO’s Last Week Tonight with John Oliver and Boughton after Oliver had previously bashed Danbury on August 16 during a segment on racial disparities in the jury selection.
Oliver had said that if all others are going to forget a town in Connecticut then why not forget Danbury as well. Further, he had finished his rant with a taunt saying that those who belong to that place have a standing invitation to come and get a thrashing from John Oliver, including the children.
It was on August 22 when Boughton had followed up on the matter and updated a post on Facebook that showed the mayor standing in front of the city’s sewage plant and wrote that they are supposedly going to rename it to John Oliver Memorial Sewer Plant, the Republican Mayor had stated. The reason being the sewer plant is full of crap just like John is he added.
However, Oliver had raised the stakes on his August 30 show by claiming to donate $55000 to Danbury area charities of the officials agreed to follow through on naming the plant after him.
The comedian further played a video of Boughton where he was seen saying that the offer was perhaps a joke and mocked saying that is the mayor not intending to do that.
Oliver went ahead to say that till this time he hadn’t put much thought on whether he wanted his name on the sewage plant or plant, but now that it has floated as an option, it is all he wants.
Post this; a message seeking comment on Boughton’s demand that Oliver has to attend the ribbon-cutting was forwarded to Oliver’s manager.
However, it is still unclear as to why Oliver in the first place had singled out Danbury, a city of about 80000 in Fairfield Country that once used to be a hat-making centre.
