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Monday, August 31, 2009

Larry Frankel, former PA ACLU lobbyist, found dead in park

Longtime ACLU Harrisburg lobbyist, Larry Frankel, was found dead  Friday in a Washington D.C. park. Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle remembered Frankel - who in 2008 was promoted to a national position in the ACLU's Washington office - as a "brilliant tactician," committed to his causes and always fair. To many reporters he was a Capitol source on many issues and a valuable resource willing to take time to explain complex legal issues. Plans for memorial services in Harrisburg or Philadelphia have not yet been set.

Here are the obituaries in today's Inquirer and Daily News.

 

 

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Commonwealth Confidential gives you regularly updated coverage of the state legislature, the governor and the workings of the state bureaucracy. It is written by correspondents in the Inquirer's Harrisburg bureau, based right in the statehouse, and by the newspaper's far-flung campaign reporters.

Angela Couloumbis (left) joined The Philadelphia Inquirer in 1998, and has covered government and politics in New Jersey, Philadelphia and throughout Pennsylvania, including Gov. Rendell’s 2006 race against former Pittsburgh Steeler Lynn Swann.

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