Posted on 04/21/2020 9:37:26 AM PDT by Missouri gal
For more than 17 years Jo Ann Emerson represented the 8th District of Missouri in the United States House of Representatives, one of the first Republican women elected to Congress in the state and a political force who regularly won re-election with more than 70% of the vote. In 2013, she resigned from Congress to become the first woman president and CEO of the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association. Known for her spirit of bipartisanship and zeal for "putting people before politics," she fought for constituents at times at the expense of her own party. Today, she's fighting coronavirus.
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Prayers up! For her, her family and her friends!
Please Lord Jesus, you are the ultimate Healer and we request Your aid here, amen!
She took the seat previously held by her husband, Bill Emerson. She resigned her seat shortly after her last election. Suffered a stroke while in Italy on vacation that left her paralyzed from the neck down. I live in what was her district and I had no idea what had happened to her.
“Known for her spirit of bipartisanship..”
How can one be bipartisan with the devil?
She will be 70 yrs old in Sept.
Hope she is at Peace and comfortable...
800,000 Americans are facing covid19.
Yikes. Prayers for her to make a full recovery from the virus.
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