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Sheldon Silver, Speaker, NY Assembly
Lenny Bruce observed that the highest motivation among humans is job security. If Cuomo successfully removes Silver as Speaker, one might expect him to retaliate against the Governor. It is one reason why there is little will to clean up government. Someone has to lose his job.
[From article]
Gov. Cuomo and his top aides are looking to use last week’s round of embarrassing scandals in Albany to oust Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver — and they’re already eyeing an upstate lawmaker to replace him, The Post has learned.
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Every speaker since the Democrats recaptured the Assembly in 1974 has been a Big Apple Democrat.
Silver, who been speaker since 1994, has seen about a dozen Assembly members charged, sentenced or ousted under his watch.
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“Shelly’s been the master of gaming the corrupt system for 20 years. He’s made millions off of it, and the coalition that keeps him in power are the ones who feed off the corrupt system,” a Cuomo administration source said.
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/get_the_shel_outta_here_gov_IBCfiUMciMXkOBFFKxP17O
Gov. Cuomo considering ousting Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver over Albany scandals
By FREDRIC U. DICKER
New York Post
Last Updated: 8:15 AM, April 8, 2013
Posted: 2:47 AM, April 8, 2013
INSIDE ALBANY
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http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/we_ain_buying_cuomo_cure_F47yQEfxU3HbBnQxSc7aBP
We ain’t buying Cuomo’s ‘cure’
By MICHAEL GOODWIN
New York Post
Last Updated: 3:27 AM, April 10, 2013
Posted: 1:33 AM, April 10, 2013
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