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Rush Limbaugh’s hometown congresswoman coming out against the DeLay Rule?

The Southeast Missourian seems to be saying that Jo Ann Emerson is in the Shays Handful.

Here’s the update they put up this evening …

House Majority Leader Tom DeLay would retain his leadership post even if indicted by a Texas prosecutor under a GOP rule change opposed by a minority of Republicans, including U.S. Rep. Jo Ann Emerson of Cape Girardeau.

“I think that it sets a bad example,” Emerson said today from Capitol Hill. “I just don’t think that it passes the smell test.”

For more on this story, read Saturday’s Southeast Missourian.

We’ll stand by for the big news in <$NoAd$> tomorrow’s paper.

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