Powerful New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon will serve another term negotiating with his fifth governor.
The lower Manhattan Democrat was chosen by the Democratic conference in closed-door session Tuesday. He said there was no opposition.
Silver was first elected to the Assembly in 1976 and easily won re-election in the fall.
As speaker, he must gain a consensus in the diverse Democratic conference and negotiate those positions with the governor and leader of the Senate.
Silver is praised by Democrats as a consummate negotiator.
Silver says he hasn’t yet chosen a majority leader. Former majority leader Ronald Canestrari of Albany County retired in the fall.
Silver is within a few years of becoming the longest tenured legislative leader in state history.
(AP)
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Teflon, isn’t he? Amazing how meglomania always rises to the top & no one has the guts to push back down.
Sheldon Silver has always been good for the Jews & is an avid Zionist.
The walking talking Chillul Hashem, continue’s R”L! The continued Chaniffa by our “leaders”(?) LOL will follow!
Yeah, he’s “great” for the Jews.
“ALBANY, N.Y. (WKTV) – Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver reacted Friday following the passage of gay marriage.
Silver said, “Passage of the Marriage Equality Act is a giant step forward in the march toward full civil rights for all New Yorkers and a historic turning point in the journey of our state and nation. When the New York State Assembly first passed marriage equality legislation in 2007, we said that we believe in a New York where all families have equal rights under the law.
“Today I am proud that this belief has become a reality. I salute Governor Andrew Cuomo and my colleague, Assemblyman Danny O’Donnell, ”
On top of making us recognize “gay marriage” he wants us to be disarmed against criminals, terrorists and tyrants.
Sheldon Silver would have been right at home with the Judenrat.
Pirkei Avot: “Be cautious regarding the ruling power. Because they only befriend a person when it serves themselves. They appear as friends when it suits them, but they do not stand by a man in his time of need.” (2:3)
Any Jew who supports “gun control”
has either forgotten the lessons of the Holocaust,
or never learned them in the first place.
Sheldon Silver, FEH.