Clean Politics, Clean Streams : A Legislative Autobiography and Reflections.
Title:
Clean Politics, Clean Streams : A Legislative Autobiography and Reflections.
Author:
Kury, Franklin L.
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9781611460742
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1 online resource (230 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Introduction -- Prologue: 1702-1952 -- Part I: GETTING THERE, 1952-1966 -- Chapter 01. Getting Ready -- Chapter 02. Cracking Gibraltar, the Lark "Machine" -- Chapter 03. Running for the House -- Part II: THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, 1966-1972 -- Chapter 04. The Education of a Freshman -- Chapter 05. Absentee Ballot Reform -- Chapter 06. Ballot Box Reform in Northumberland County -- Chapter 07. Clean Streams and the Environmental Revolution -- Chapter 08. The Environmental Amendment to the State Constitution -- Chapter 09. The Bridge at Sunbury -- Part III: THE STATE SENATE, 1972-1980 -- Chapter 10. Defying Gravity: Going to the Senate -- Chapter 11. The Senate Is Not the House -- Chapter 12. Senate Confirmation of the Governor's Appointments -- Chapter 13. The "Bloodless Coup" Bill and the Governor's Disability -- Chapter 14. Righting a Listing Ship by Rewriting the Utility Law -- Chapter 15. Our Rendezvous with Flood Disasters -- Chapter 16. The Thornburgh Administration and Farewell -- Part IV: POLITICAL LIFE AFTER THE LEGISLATURE AND REFLECTIONS, 1981-2010 -- Chapter 17. Political Life after the Legislature -- Chapter 18. Reflections -- APPENDICES -- Appendix A: A Sampling of Basse Beck's "Up and Down the River" Columns -- Appendix B: Robert Broughton's Analysis of the Environmental Amendment -- Appendix C: Questions and Answers Document Distributed Prior to the Public Referendum on the Environmental Amendment -- Appendix D: A Report of the Special Senate Committee to Study Confirmation Procedure, November 1973 -- Appendix E: Article IV, Sec. 8 of the State Constitution as Revised to Implement the Committee Report -- Appendix F: The Witnesses and Persons Consulted in the Investigation of the PUC -- Appendix G: Senator Franklin L. Kury, "Rendezvous with Disaster," Pennsylvania Township News Magazine, May 1977.
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 -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Abstract:
As a young Democratic lawyer, Franklin L. Kury defeated the senior Republican in the House, and the patronage machine that supported him, to go on to be a leader in the enactment of significant reform legislation on government and the environment. This book examines the author's reflections on the historical development of legislature, a comparison of the legislature now and then, and the current legislature's obligation to its historical legacy.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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