Teggatz learning the ropes underneath the golden dome

By: 
Nick Pedley

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It’s not often the average 18-year-old gets to brush shoulders with state senators on a regular basis, but it’s all in a day’s work for Allen Teggatz.

     “It’s really awesome just to be there and see everything that’s going on. Not everyone gets to do that,” he said.

     Teggatz, of Hampton, is one of 40 senate pages on staff at the capitol in Des Moines for the 2014 legislative session. He began when the General Assembly convened in mid-January and will remain there until the it adjourns later this year. Teggatz spends the majority of his time Monday through Thursday running errands for Iowa’s lawmakers, and explained no task is too big or too small for the senate’s pages.

“We do anything from getting them coffee to making copies to carrying things out to their car,” he said. “Really any little thing.”

Read the full article in the Feb. 5 edition of the Hampton Chronicle.

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