[cgbg]

I heard they even invented airplanes and conference rooms.

The rich donors can fly anywhere.

Lol.

[Rockingham]

Convenience matters. Have you noticed how car dealers tend to locate near each other? That lawyers' offices gravitate toward courthouses, with doctor offices clustered near hospitals? So also do colleges and universities usually put classroom buildings with faculty offices and dorms nearby.

Note how Las Vegas has lots of casinos and hotels, while Orlando has several large theme parks and many lesser attractions with lots of hotels close to them? And Broadway has theater after theater in a row, while Hollywood has lots of movie production studios, and Detroit has numerous car and truck factories and their suppliers?

I get the idea of saving money on staff salaries, but mindless parsimony is a path to extinction. Like it or not, the focus of the nation's federal politics is Washington D.C. Putting the RNC HQs and its staff anywhere else is a way to make it almost irrelevant and put the Republican Party on the path to extinction.