One of the highest ranking advisers to former Governor Gray Davis is heading back inside the "horseshoe" offices of the governor, as chief of staff to First Lady Maria Shriver.

Daniel Zingale served in a number of high profile jobs for Davis, including as his cabinet secretary and as the first director of the state's Department of Managed Health Care. This afternoon, it was announced that Zingale will become Shriver's chief of staff in November.

Just before leaving office, Davis appointed the 45-year-old Zingale to a six-figure paying job on the Agricultural Labor Relations Board... and Zingale was one of the appointees that in 2004 the Schwarzenegger administration said could no longer work from home.

Zingale was also the target of a lawsuit from a citizen who said that it was improper for Zingale to have worked on a political campaign last year while also drawing a state salary.

Zingale now becomes one of the most high-profile Democrats now working inside the Republican administration... although his job is with the #1 Democrat in the governor's camp: his wife.