Clean Politics, Clean Streams: A Legislative Autobiography and Reflections
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Clean Politics, Clean Streams: A Legislative Autobiography and Reflections
By (Author) Franklin L. Kury
Lehigh University Press
Lehigh University Press
15th September 2011
United States
Classifications
Professional and Scholarly
Non Fiction
Regional, state and other local government
Biography: historical, political and military
328.73092
Physical Properties
Paperback
292
Width 155mm, Height 231mm, Spine 18mm
472g
Description
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 Senates 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 Kurys 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 authors reflections on the legislatures historical legacies, its present operation, and its future.
Reviews
During a time when state and national attention is being given to drilling and fracking to mine gas, with claims of various kinds of pollution, a review of how one legislator affected the changes in how the state has to treat water only a few years ago may be of interest. * Pennsylvania Magazine *
Author Bio
Franklin L. Kury served in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives and Senate from 1966 through 1980 as a leader in the enactment of governmental reform and environmental protection legislation.
