He Rushed Out of Here

 March 4, 2021

In response to a Missouri legislator’s proposal to declare the late Rush Limbaugh’s birthday Rush Limbaugh day (on the grounds that Rush was born here), Post-Dispatch columnist Bill McClellan pointed out that Rush didn’t like Missouri enough to live here once he hit the big time.

McClellan also listed a lot of other people who could have called Missouri home, but chose not to. One of those people wrote an article in 2011 extolling the virtues of flying Southwest Airlines to get home to his family every weekend. The man was the chief marketing officer for what was then the St. Louis Convention and Visitors Commission; the home he couldn’t wait to get to was in Baltimore. 

Apparently, nobody held it against him. He’s still working with the bureau, and he still lives in Baltimore.