U.S. Rep. Jo Ann Emerson announced today she will leave her congressional post in February to become president and CEO of the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association, a not-for-profit organization that represents rural electric cooperatives and public power districts.Right, she gets re-elected and then, less than a month later, she decamps her seat?
Emerson, R-Cape Girardeau, was re-elected in November for a ninth term to the U.S. House of Representatives in Missouri's Eighth District.
Uh huh, tell me another one. At least the generic lie of "spending more time with the family" was left out of the press release.
"I just feel like its an extension of the job I am doing now," she said of her new position, which she will begin Feb. 11. Her last day in Congress will be Feb. 8.Except now she will blatantly be representing the interests of power companies, instead of having a cover of representing the people of Missouri's 8th congressional district.
And the revolving door continues to spin.
UPDATE: Seems that Emerson is going to pull down ten times what she was making as a congressman, so expect her to fight mightily to preserve the Bush tax cuts for the rich until she quits to become the poster girl for climate change denialism.
But you have to feel for the folks in that district: Here they thought that they were going to get a break from electoral politics and now this.
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More story to come, I imagine. These things don't seem to stay hidden.
MO-8 is a Republican safe seat and her successor will be selected by the party. It looks like they have someone they want to groom for greater things. I wonder who?
Wonder what the 'rest' of the story is???
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