Lawrence Roberts | |
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Member of the PennsylvaniaHouseofRepresentatives from the 51st district | |
In office January 5, 1993 [1] –November 30, 2006 [2] | |
Preceded by | Fred Taylor |
Succeeded by | Timothy S. Mahoney |
Constituency | Part of Fayette County |
Personal details | |
Born | [3] Uniontown,Pennsylvania,United States | November 18,1941
Political party | Democratic |
Spouse | Nataliya |
Occupation | Legislator-Arbitrator/Mediator |
Lawrence "Larry" Roberts is a former Democratic member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives.
Roberts attended Uniontown High School,graduating in 1959. [4] He attended the Community College of the Air Force and Bowie State College before earning a master's at Central Michigan University in 1981. [4]
Roberts was first elected to represent the 51st legislative district in 1992. [4] The Herald-Standard newspaper sued in 2000 to gain access to Roberts's cellular and long-distance phone records,citing the fact that the calls were paid for with state money. [5] The suit was dismissed,but in 2003 the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ordered the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania to reconsider whether a Herald-Standard reporter's civil rights were violated when Roberts showed the sought-after phone records to another reporter,but not to the original reporter. [5] The full case was dismissed in 2006. [5]
He retired prior to the 2006 election. Activists had targeted him because of his support for the controversial 2005 legislative pay raise [6] Roberts accepted the optional "unvouchered expense account" money,which were used by the legislature to "skirt a [constitutional] prohibition on midterm raises." [7]
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