For the first time in nine years, the annual legislative session won t include Pat Myers.
His fate was not in the hands of voters, who picked and chose which legislators to send to Topeka. Nor is he a lobbyist or reporter, who come and go in the halls of the capitol, with new faces seemingly cropping up every session.
Instead, Myers is one of the army of staffers who are hired on a temporary basis to help serve as vital cogs in the machine that is the state legislature. Serving in a variety of roles, he found himself gravitating towards work as an office assistant for several members, most recently Rep. Fred Patton, R-Topeka.