Team Emerson Insists She's Serious About Senate Race, While SEMO Times Sticks By Story That She's Out

Some fodder for your Monday morning water cooler chats:

• Jo Ann Emerson tells the Southeast Missourian that she'll have her announcement about the Missouri Senate race in "a couple of weeks."  Coincidentally, the Missouri's GOP's Lincoln Days event is in "a couple of weeks." 
• Corey Brown, Field Director for Emerson's 2010 Congressional campaign, insists that the Congresswoman is "most definitely not out" of the Senate race
• The SEMO Times is standing by its story that Emerson told at least one GOP state legislator that she's out. In a weekend email to readers: "After breaking the story on the SEMO TIMES twitter feed the congresswoman contacted Jo Mannies of the Beacon to explain she was going to take several more weeks to make an announcement, but in no story did she deny contacting a Republican Missouri State Senator and informing them of her intentions."

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