Tough Love

The president of the Cook County Board fired his first cousin - the county CFO - the other day.

He says it was for her own good:

"All I can tell you is that I know certain commissioners were determined to drag Miss Dunnings through the mud, and I thought it was undeserved and it would not serve her or the county for that to happen," Stroger told the Sun-Times Monday night.

So, to keep her reputation from being muddied, he fired her!

Since someone else decided to attack her,
he concluded that he should no longer back her.