Delisi will step down as Transportation Commission chair

Works in Perry campaign

David Crossley, Oct 06, 11.

Rick Perry for President campaign aide Deirde Delisi is leaving her post as chairman of the Texas Transportation Commission, where she has led the governing board for the embattled 12,000-worker state agency since 2008, according to a story in the Dallas News:

(Her letter to TxDOT acting executive director John Barton is here, and dated Oct. 6.)

Delisi, a Duke graduate with a strong background in politics and public policy, was appointed to lead the agency by Gov. Rick Perry when the governor’s long-time close friend Ric Williamson died on the job.

She now works for Perry’s campaign for the presidency as a chief policy adviser. MORE

Photo: Dallas Morning News