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Campaign Adviser, Ex-Candidate Join Wolf's Office

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) - Gov.-elect Tom Wolf is naming a top campaign adviser and a former fellow cabinet member under ex-Gov. Ed Rendell to key positions in his office.

The Democrat said Wednesday that Mary Isenhour will be his legislative secretary and John Hanger will be his policy and planning secretary.

Isenhour directed of the state Democratic Party while Rendell was governor, and she also directed Hillary Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign in Pennsylvania.

Hanger was a member of the Public Utility Commission and founder of the Harrisburg-based environmental advocacy group PennFuture before becoming Rendell's environmental protection secretary in 2008. Hanger also ran for governor, but dropped out two months before Wolf won the Democratic primary.

Wolf served in Rendell's cabinet as revenue secretary for nearly two years. He takes office Jan. 20.

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