Posted by Hal Dardick at 1:50 p.m.
Cook County Board President Todd Stroger announced today that he has hired the communications director of his failed re-election campaign to serve as his new deputy chief of staff.
Carla Oglesby replaces Pamela Munizzi, who recently retired. Oglesby, who was a managing partner of CGC Communications, will be paid $116,000 a year in her new post.
“I was deeply impressed by Ms. Oglesby’s work on the political side in the run-up to the” Feb. 2 Democratic primary, Stroger said in a statement.
Stroger finished last in a four-way field. Chicago Ald. Toni Preckwinkle, 4th, won the Democratic nomination and faces Republican Roger Keats and Green Party candidate Tom Tresser on the November ballot.
Whomever wins the general election is likely to put their own trusted aides in the county’s top administrative posts, so Oglesby’s tenure at the county could be short lived.