Christmas on Worth Avenue in Palm Beach, FL may be 10 feet taller, and brighter, thanks to a certain radio talk show host.
According to a story by William Kelly in the Palm Beach Daily News, Rush Limbaugh and new bride Kathryn Rogers Limbaugh have offered a crowning touch for this year’s multi-million-dollar makeover of the town’s most glamorous street: a 40-foot-high holiday tree.
This isn’t the first time the conservative lightning rod has offered a little holiday cheer. Last year he and then-girlfriend Rogers gave the town $100,000 toward new holiday decorations. Because the tree is worth more than $25,000, it must be approved by the Town Council, which has placed it on Tuesday’s meeting agenda.
Before the Limbaughs stepped in, it appeared the Avenue was headed for a blue Christmas. The town owns and installs a 30-foot tree on the Avenue each year, but it is aging and needs replacement, Public Works Director Paul Brazil said.
Avenue property owners and merchants asked the town for a nicer tree to match the extensive makeover that occurred there this summer. But the town said its stocking was empty and that, even if funds were there, its procurement process wouldn’t allow enough time to buy a tree for display this season.
Limbaugh offered to buy the town a tree after learning from his golf pal, Council President David Rosow, that the old one may have seen one season too many.
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