01.09.2009 11:15 am
AP: Emerson won’t seek to replace Bond (UPDATED)
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Emerson
Take one name out of the 2010 Senate sweepstakes.
An aide to U.S. Rep. Jo Ann Emerson told the Associated Press today that the Cape Girardeau congresswoman will not run for the Senate seat being vacated by Kit Bond.
Emerson, the aide told the AP, is happy where she is, and looking forward to being the ranking Republican on the House Appropriations Committee’s financial services subcommittee.
UPDATE: Emerson tells Post-Dispatch Washington bureau chief Bill Lambrecht that she won’t run. “My plate is full,” she said.
That’s too bad for the GOP. As a pro-labor Republican, if she could’ve made it out of the primary, she would have been a formidable challenger to any Democrat.