Sheldon silver

• The Democratic speaker of the New York state Assembly on Tuesday gave a pass to members of his conference who are part of the growing number of Democratic officials declining to attend the Democratic National Convention in September.
(Huffington Post)
• Photo: New York State Assembly ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - The nonpartisan National Conference of State Legislatures is awarding its top state leadership award to New York state Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver.
(NBCNews.com)
• The nonpartisan National Conference of State Legislatures is awarding its top state leadership award to New York state Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver. Silver was elected to the Assembly in 1976 and has been the powerful speaker since 1994.
(Long Island Business News)
• Just in time for the looming battle over toll hikes, and then construction of a new Tappan Zee Bridge, the Thruway Authority has tapped Sheldon Silver's former spokesman Dan Weiller as their new public affairs director.
(Albany Times Union (blog))
• Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver this morning told Fred Dicker on Talk 1300 radio that he found the idea of Democrats winning back the State Senate enticing, even though he wont put any fund-raising muscle behind it.
(capitalnewyork.com)
• The M9 will begin traveling into and out of Battery Park City again in January, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver announced yesterday.
(New York Post)
• In a YouTube video posted Monday, Silverman proposes that if Las Vegas casino tycoon Sheldon Adelson gives the $100 million he has pledged to Mitt Romney to Barack Obamas campaign instead shell, well, engage in some racy behavior with him.
(ABC News)
• "No one is happy," groused a source close to Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, a close ally of DiNapoli, whose office mistakenly included the personal info in a database to be published by a news site.
(New York Daily News)
• Bill Coates, 86, told Channel 4 Action News' Sheldon Ingram vandals appeared to use an ax to In one incident, a witness reported seeing a silver or gray minivan or SUV with several teens inside, police said. "I think (residents are) angry.
(NBCNews.com)