lawmakers may return after November’s election and raise taxes to cover the shortfall. “If we don’t do it right now, we have the possibility of coming back and doing it after the session is over,” a Democratic assemblyman of Brooklyn, Felix Ortiz, said.
That’s promising isn’t it… Why do our job? and why do it now? […]

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I think that Sheldon Silver is more of a shadow dictator than he is shadow governor. I have been saying for years that Silver is the most powerful politician in New York State. He needs to be defeated this year, in the Primary.

Shelly Silver, shadow governor
Much of Sheldon Silver’s life unfolded within five city blocks […]

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