We did an item yesterday about Gov. Matt Blunt’s four-day RV swing through Missouri, mentioning that the trip steered clear of any St. Louis attractions.

What about the Arch, the Botanical Garden or Busch Stadium, we suggested? (Though I can’t blame him for staying away from the ballpark last night.)

The post caught the attention of Blunt’s staff, who tell us that scheduling — not any type of geographical bias — kept the governor away from St. Louis on the current trip.

“Many of the St. Louis sites you listed, while excellent tourist attractions that Gov. Blunt certainly encourages Missourians and our visitors to consider, they are not state historic sites, which is the focus of the governor’s tour,” Blunt spokesman Rich Chrismer says in an e-mail. “There are obviously state historic sites in St. Louis, but the schedule did not allow us to visit those on this tour.”

Chrismer also points out that the First Family was in St. Louis with his family as recently as last month, visiting the Laumeier Sculpture Park, among other attractions.

Finally, Chrismer sought to clarify a remark made by Blunt at a Republican rally a few years ago.

At the 2005 state Lincoln Days event held in Blunt’s hometown of Springfield, the governor asserted that to find Democrats in Missouri, “You have to go to places where nobody wants to live anymore.”

As we mentioned in Monday’s Fix item, some took that remark as a dig at urban areas.

Not so, Chrismer says now.

“The governor never said or suggested that ‘cities’ are places where nobody wants to live,” Chrismer writes. “He pointed out that Republicans win all of the fast growing areas. It is a stretch to report that he condemned cities.”