Oregon
Rob Wagner prepares to take over as Oregon’s first new Senate president since 2003
Rob Wagner first walked into the Oregon Capitol in 1997 as an intern for a first-term Democratic state senator from Portland. In January, as his first political boss, Gov. Kate Brown, leaves workplace, Wagner is ready to tackle a brand new position as Senate president.
It’s been a winding street to the Senate’s prime job for Wagner, who lately served because the chamber’s Democratic chief. He didn’t final lengthy as a Senate intern – he mentioned Brown all the time says he solely made it a day, although Wagner thinks he labored for no less than a few weeks earlier than he caught the lobbying bug.