RENSSELAER — Irene Sorriento was fired from her job as human resources manager of the city of Rensselaer when Democrat John DeFrancesco became mayor in January.
Now, the Republican bureaucrat says she is the preferred candidate for the same civil service job from which she was terminated. Another county official familiar with the matter corroborates her claim.
Sorriento, who currently serves as Rensselaer County civil service director, said on April 24 that she received a canvass letter regarding the city position from a fellow department staffer, Jeanette Stanton. (The county has managed civil service matters for the city for more than a decade.) In a response to the letter, Sorriento expressed interest in her former job…