Clean Politics, Clean Streams
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Clean Politics, Clean Streams

A Legislative Autobiography and Reflections

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Clean Politics, Clean Streams

A Legislative Autobiography and Reflections

About this book

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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Table of contents

  1. Introduction
  2. Prologue: 1702–1952
  3. Part I: Getting There, 1952–1966
  4. Chapter 1: Getting Ready
  5. Chapter 2: Cracking Gibraltar, the Lark “Machine”
  6. Chapter 3: Running for the House
  7. Part II: The House of Representatives, 1966–1972
  8. Chapter 4: The Education of a Freshman
  9. Chapter 5: Absentee Ballot Reform
  10. Chapter 6: Ballot Box Reform in Northumberland County
  11. Chapter 7: Clean Streams and the Environmental Revolution
  12. Chapter 8: The Environmental Amendment to the State Constitution
  13. Chapter 9: The Bridge at Sunbury
  14. Part III: The State Senate, 1972–1980
  15. Chapter 10: Defying Gravity: Going to the Senate
  16. Chapter 11: The Senate Is Not the House
  17. Chapter 12: Senate Confirmation of the Governor’s Appointments
  18. Chapter 13: The “Bloodless Coup” Bill and the Governor’s Disability
  19. Chapter 14: Righting a Listing Ship by Rewriting the Utility Law
  20. Chapter 15: Our Rendezvous with Flood Disasters
  21. Chapter 16: The Thornburgh Administration and Farewell
  22. Part IV: Political Life After the Legislature and Reflections, 1981–2010
  23. Chapter 17: Political Life after the Legislature
  24. Chapter 18: Reflections
  25. Appendices
  26. Appendix A
  27. Appendix B
  28. Appendix C
  29. Appendix D
  30. Appendix E
  31. Appendix F
  32. Appendix G
  33. Appendix H
  34. Acknowledgments
  35. Notes
  36. Bibliography