You know, when Republicans were being hunted for sport. served one term as a Republican Missouri state representative during the Great Depression. Even back when being Republican here wasn’t cool. The family has been largely Republican forever. I swear, shake a tree in Capaha Park and a random Limbaugh falls out. And if you’re toodling around Cape, it’s kind of hard to miss The Limbaugh Firm’s signage on the top floors of a bank building where Broadway meets North Kingshighway. Another (younger) cousin, Chris Limbaugh, was very recently appointed to a state judgeship. is also a federal judge and prior to that served on the Missouri Supreme Court. was a federal judge for twenty-five years and also still practices law. (I can’t find any documentation of it, but I could swear that Rush referred to David as his “brain” on air several times.) Rush’s uncle Stephen Sr. Rush III’s (hereby referred to simply as “Rush”) brother David still lives and practices law here, and has been a prolific writer and author. The Rush everyone knows from the media is actually Rush H. was also an attorney, who died at the more modest age of seventy-two. It’s named after his grandfather, a legendary Cape Girardeau attorney, who lived to the ripe old age of 104 and practiced law up to almost the very end. And it’s not even named after Rush Limbaugh the radio talk show host. The best example-the federal courthouse here is named the Rush Hudson Limbaugh Sr. To say the Limbaughs are big in Cape would be an understatement. So yes, we knew a lot of the same people, and I’ve had a few happenstance run-ins with the family.Īnd what a family it is. For heaven’s sake, I live three hundred feet (give or take) from Rush’s childhood home. I’m about as “from here” as anyone could be. It sounds confusing when I put it that way, but it’s true.Īlthough I actually grew up one town over, I was born in Cape, worked here several times, went to college here, got married here, and live here now. And if none of those things happens to be true, you are almost certainly related to/went to school with/otherwise know someone who is related to/went to school with/otherwise knows that other native. Most Cape natives are either related to/went to school with/otherwise know each other. If you’re from here, you’re lucky if you have two degrees of separation between yourself and any other random native. But like I always tell my wife (who is not from here)-down here there are no six degrees of separation for natives. Even though I’m not the only person here who could write a piece about Rush, I am the only one who has to worry about running into his family at the grocery store.įirst I’ll just get this part out of the way: I did not know Rush. I’m going to have stern words with my union rep about this.)Īnyway, as the only writer for this publication who actually lives in Rush’s hometown of Cape Girardeau, Missouri, I am obligated to say some words about our town’s most famous native, who died this week at age seventy from lung cancer. Sometimes I get stark reminders that I work for AP and not the A.P. (If only the owner of this web site would pay me more, maybe I would have. You’d think that since Rush Limbaugh had been in poor health for some time, I’d have had a canned piece ready to go in the event of his death.
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