"Close to Kansas City"

All day long, at the top of every hour, NPR kept saying that the president was visiting Lee's Summit today, "which is close to Kansas City," and I just have to make a clarification...Lee's summit is in the same county as Kansas City, but the two cities are about as far apart as they can be socially and politically.

As a means of illustrating that point, just look at the differences in our state senate representation. They are represented by this guy, and I am represented by this woman.