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Clean Politics, Clean Streams
A Legislative Autobiography and Reflections
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2011
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In this legislative autobiography Franklin L. Kury tells the story about his election to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, and later the Senate, against the senior Republican in the House and an entrenched patronage organization. The only Democrat elected from his district to serve in the House or Senate since the Roosevelt landslide in 1936, Kury was instrumental in enacting the environmental amendment to the state constitution, a comprehensive clean streams law, the gubernatorial disability law, reform of the Senate’s procedure for confirmation of gubernatorial appointments, a new public utility law, and flood plain and storm water management laws.
The story told here is based on Kury’s recollections of his experience, supplemented by his personal files, extensive research in the legislative archives, and conversations with persons knowledgeable on the issues. This book is well documented with notes and appendices of significant documents. Several chapters provide detailed “inside” descriptions of how campaigns succeeded and the enactment of legislation happened. The passage of the environmental amendment, clean streams law, public utility code, flood plain and storm water management laws, and the gubernatorial disability law are recounted in a manner that reveals what it takes to pass such proposals.
The book concludes with the author’s reflections on the legislature’s historical legacies, its present operation, and its future.
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Copyright year
2011
ISBN-Print
978-1-61146-073-5
ISBN-Online
978-1-61146-074-2
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
274
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Contents No access
Introduction No access
Prologue: 1702–1952 No access
Chapter 01. Getting Ready No access
Chapter 02. Cracking Gibraltar, the Lark “Machine” No access
Chapter 03. Running for the House No access
Chapter 04. The Education of a Freshman No access
Chapter 05. Absentee Ballot Reform No access
Chapter 06. Ballot Box Reform in Northumberland County No access
Chapter 07. Clean Streams and the Environmental Revolution No access
Chapter 08. The Environmental Amendment to the State Constitution No access
Chapter 09. The Bridge at Sunbury No access
Chapter 10. Defying Gravity: Going to the Senate No access
Chapter 11. The Senate Is Not the House No access
Chapter 12. Senate Confirmation of the Governor’s Appointments No access
Chapter 13. The “Bloodless Coup” Bill and the Governor’s Disability No access
Chapter 14. Righting a Listing Ship by Rewriting the Utility Law No access
Chapter 15. Our Rendezvous with Flood Disasters No access
Chapter 16. The Thornburgh Administration and Farewell No access
Chapter 17. Political Life after the Legislature No access
Chapter 18. Reflections No access
Appendix A: A Sampling of Basse Beck’s “Up and Down the River” Columns No access
Appendix B: Robert Broughton’s Analysis of the Environmental Amendment No access
Appendix C: Questions and Answers Document Distributed Prior to the Public Referendum on the Environmental Amendment No access
Appendix D: A Report of the Special Senate Committee to Study Confirmation Procedure, November 1973 No access
Appendix E: Article IV, Sec. 8 of the State Constitution as Revised to Implement the Committee Report No access
Appendix F: The Witnesses and Persons Consulted in the Investigation of the PUC No access
Appendix G: Senator Franklin L. Kury, “Rendezvous with Disaster,” Pennsylvania Township News Magazine, May 1977 No access
Appendix H: The Study of Historical “Flood Disaster Prevention in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,” Prepared by Senator Kury and Inserted in the Senate Legislative Journal, 1974 No access
