Interview with Dorothy Priddy, Margie Priddy, September 18, 2006
Project: Kentucky Legislature Oral History Project
Interview Summary
Priddy (House 1970-1991, 45th district; Democrat) and her daughter Margie discuss legislation on drug abuse, police and firefighters, economic development, receiving threatening letters and phone calls, the effects of the demands of the being a legislator on family life, Priddy's hands-on approach to committee work, the importance of communication with constituents, political heroes, impressions of the six governors under whom she served, and a change in camaraderie among legislators. The interview concludes with what Priddy misses about the legislature, her twelve years as a member of the School Board, daughter Margie's inclinations towards running for office, and how the advent of separate offices for legislators has put additional layers of bureaucracy between themselves and their constituents. Part 2 of 2.Interview Accession
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Margie Priddy
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camaraderie campaigning Constituency concerns Dotty Priddy education reform ethics legislation Jefferson County School Board Judicial Criminal Committee (Chair) Legislative Research Commission (LRC) office space for legislators Toyota Manufacturing (Georgetown, Ky.) Truth in Sentencing billInterview LC Subject
Brown, John Young, Jr., 1933- Carroll, Julian Morton, 1931- Carter, Jimmy, 1924- Caucus Clinton, Bill, 1946- Collins, Martha Layne Drug abuse Drug abuse--Law and legislation--Kentucky Economic development Educational change Fire fighters--Kentucky Ford, Wendell H., 1924- Frankfort (Ky.) Jefferson County (Ky.) Kentucky Kentucky. Education Reform Act (1990) Kentucky. General Assembly. Legislative Research Commission Kentucky. Governor (1967-1971 : Nunn) Kentucky. Governor (1971-1974 : Ford) Kentucky. Governor (1974-1979 : Carroll) Kentucky. Governor (1979-1983 : Brown) Kentucky. Governor (1983-1987 : Collins) Kentucky. Governor (1987-1991 : Wilkinson) Legislators--Kentucky--Interviews Lobbyists Lobbyists-- Kentucky Louisville (Ky.) Nunn, Louie B., 1924-2004 Police--Kentucky Priddy, Dorothy, 1935- Priddy, Dorothy, 1935- --Interviews Priddy, Margie Priddy, Margie--Interviews Prisons School board members--Kentucky Stovall, Thelma L., 1919-1994 Threats Wallace, George C., (George Corley), 1919-1998 Wilkinson, Wallace G. Women legislators Women legislators--Kentucky--InterviewsInterview Rights
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Priddy, Dorothy Interview by Jan Romond. 18 Sep. 2006. Lexington, KY: Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
Priddy, D. (2006, September 18). Interview by J. Romond. Kentucky Legislature Oral History Project. Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries, Lexington.
Priddy, Dorothy, interview by Jan Romond. September 18, 2006, Kentucky Legislature Oral History Project, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
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