Engine Problem with choke linkage Honda GJAEA A1AE

I took the carb off to clean out the bowl...but now the linkage is amiss. Lever slides to choke OK, Full Throttle OK, but when I try to move to idle, it binds. I was thinking that the dropdown section of #10 linkage is a spring, but it does not give.

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