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Mather leaves USDA for Rahm Emanuel

Chris Mather, the communications director for Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, is scheduled to leave USDA Friday to become the communications director for Chicago Mayor-elect Rahm Emanuel in Chicago.

Joani Walsh, chief of staff for the Research, Education and Economics division of USDA, will be acting director of communications, according to a memo Mather recently sent to her staff.