Clean Politics, Clean Streams: A Legislative Autobiography and Reflections

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In this legislative autobiography Franklin L. Kury tells the tale about his election to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, and later the Senate, against the senior Republican within the House and an entrenched patronage organization. The one Democrat elected from his district to serve within the House or Senate for the reason that Roosevelt landslide in 1936, Kury was once 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 in accordance with Kury’s recollections of his enjoy, supplemented by his personal files, extensive research within the legislative archives, and conversations with persons knowledgeable at the issues. This book is well documented with notes and appendices of significant documents. A couple of 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 writer’s reflections at the legislature’s historical legacies, its present operation, and its future.


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