Ted Kennedy staffer's clock winds down
It wasn’t supposed to be this calm for Eric Mogilnicki. Not at this point, with the health care bill in the homestretch.
He came to the Senate to be Ted Kennedy’s chief of staff, expecting to help guide home Kennedy’s careerlong ambition of national health care reform. He ended up being the liberal lion’s last skipper.
Now Mogilnicki finds himself serving Kennedy’s replacement, Sen. Paul Kirk (D-Mass.), the most junior Democrat on the Armed Services and Homeland Security committees.
Mogilnicki’s job now is part mop-up duty for a temporary senator, part carrying on the legacy of his beloved former boss. The office space shrank, the authority lessened, but he’s kept on with a sense of mission.
Mogilnicki said it’d be special for him if Kennedy’s cause célèbre could see its realization before Kirk’s term ends and before Mogilnicki’s Hill career sees the curtains fall at the end of next month.
But with the clock ticking fast, the ultimate twist is this: Mogilnicki resisted Kennedy’s entreaties for a long while, and now he and Kirk have to close up shop on the Kennedy era. And the scant few weeks seem to be flying by too fast.
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He came to the Senate to be Ted Kennedy’s chief of staff, expecting to help guide home Kennedy’s careerlong ambition of national health care reform. He ended up being the liberal lion’s last skipper.
Now Mogilnicki finds himself serving Kennedy’s replacement, Sen. Paul Kirk (D-Mass.), the most junior Democrat on the Armed Services and Homeland Security committees.
Mogilnicki’s job now is part mop-up duty for a temporary senator, part carrying on the legacy of his beloved former boss. The office space shrank, the authority lessened, but he’s kept on with a sense of mission.
Mogilnicki said it’d be special for him if Kennedy’s cause célèbre could see its realization before Kirk’s term ends and before Mogilnicki’s Hill career sees the curtains fall at the end of next month.
But with the clock ticking fast, the ultimate twist is this: Mogilnicki resisted Kennedy’s entreaties for a long while, and now he and Kirk have to close up shop on the Kennedy era. And the scant few weeks seem to be flying by too fast.