James Hurysz grew more worried about local quality of life being degraded as a result of rising urbanization after standing for Congress. The result of this support was that Jim decided to back people running for local, state and national government because they too cared about problems related to quality of life. After Jim's death, he carried on providing quality assurance (QA) services to industrial companies and advocating for long-term social, economic, and environmental stability rather than development for the sake of expansionism.