Todd Stroger announces he'll again run for Cook County board president

Todd Stroger - the former Cook County Board president who was easily unseated by Toni Preckwinkle amid furor over a county sales-tax increase - told WFLD-Channel 32 on Monday morning that he plans to run against Preckwinkle in the next county board president's race.

Stroger cited the outcry over the since-repealed penny-an-ounce soda tax that Preckwinkle pushed as a primary reason for his political comeback attempt.

"I felt vindicated when they had to bring the whole tax back," Stroger said of the soda tax. "There's a lot of people who are not happy with the current administration, and I think there's a lot of people who had felt I did a good job."

Stroger had been eyeing a return to political office for some time. In October, he told the Chicago Sun-Times he was eyeing a run for a seat on the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District board, which oversees the city's sanitary sewer system.

Preckwinkle easily unseated Stroger in the 2010 primary, taking 49 percent of the vote to Stroger's 13.6 percent.

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