Macomb County Public Works Commissioner Tony Marrocco has once again tapped the well of Warren politics to hire people for top positions on his staff.
Marrocco’s new deputy public works commissioner is Richard Sulaka, Jr., son of former Warren city clerk and councilman Richard Sulaka, Sr., who lost a 2007 mayoral election bid. It’s unclear what experience Sulaka brings to the table as he settles in as the county’s No. 2 man in charge of Macomb’s sewers and drains. But Marrocco said Sulaka is a twenty-something, fresh out of law school, who can provide in-house legal expertise.
The choice is a departure for a deputy position that has typically been a PR or political post. It was once held by political strategist and former county commissioner Richard Sabaugh, also of Warren. Ironically, Sabaugh later went to work for Warren Mayor Jim Fouts and now the son of the man Fouts beat to initially become "his honor," Sulaka, now sits at Sabaugh’s former desk as the public works office.
In between Sabaugh and Sulaka, the deputy was former Detroit News and Macomb Daily reporter Gene Schabath. After loyally serving Marrocco for several years, mostly in a PR mode, Schabath was abruptly dismissed by the public works boss several months ago in a move that still remains a mystery.
Marrocco, a Clinton Township Democrat, also raised some eyebrows a couple of years ago when he hired former Warren mayor Mark Steenbergh to a community liaison position in which Steenbergh apparently acts as a Marrocco representative on water rate issues with the local communities.
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