Beleaguered Metra Board Chairman Brad O’Halloran quit Thursday, charging that a patronage and severance controversy at the rail agency has become “a media and political frenzy.”
O’Halloran sent his resignation letter to Cook County Commissioners Elizabeth ‘Liz’ Doody Gorman and Jeff Tobolski, the elected officials who originally appointed him to the Board of Directors.
O’Halloran denied any wrongdoing in his handling of the severance deal the board gave to outgoing Metra CEO Alex Clifford.
“It is with mixed feelings that I step down,” O’Halloran wrote. “Unfortunately, a media and political frenzy has been stirred up, primarily related to the Alex Clifford separation agreement. I have come to the sad conclusion that, so long as I am Chairman and a member of the board, the truly critical issues facing Metra will be left aside while the focus remains on the next big headline or attention-grabbing quotation.
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