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Sheldon Silver, the former powerful Democratic speaker of the state Assembly, was found guilty of federal corruption charges less than a year after his first conviction on the same charges was thrown out.

He opened the broadcast with a blast at the culture of corruption in Albany that enabled Silver, the Democratic former Assembly speaker, and Skelos, the Republican ex-Senate majority leader.

That case involved campaign contributions and also led to the overturning of the corruption convictions of two former powers in New York State politics — Sheldon Silver, the longtime Democratic speaker of the State Assembly, and Dean Skelos, the former Republican majority leader of the State Senate.

He got agreement from the Republican leader of the Republican - majority state Senate and the Democratic speaker of the Democratic - majority assembly.

Still, despite the absence of the powerful Assembly speaker, both Senate GOP Leader Dean Skelos and Independent Democratic Conference Leader Jeff Klein reported headway in the budget talks.

ALBANY — Yet another of the potential candidates for New York State Assembly speaker has dropped out and backed Carl Heastie, the Bronx Democratic chairman, who has quickly emerged as a front - runner for the post.

Mr. Jenkins is a veteran Democratic consultant and lobbyist, but his stock shot through the roof after his old college roommate, Carl Heastie, was elected speaker of the Assembly.

These are some of the Democrats already moving: Mr. Kaminsky, a former prosecutor who is rumored to be eyeing a run for Mr. Skelos» Senate seat; Mr. Kavanagh, the leader of the reform caucus that emerged during the speaker's race; Mr. Perry, the chairman of the powerful Black, Puerto Rican, Hispanic and Asian Legislative Caucus; Mr. Mosley, who took on his seat from now - Congressman Hakeem Jeffries and almost got the Caucus nod Mr. Perry did; Marcos Crespo, new Bronx Democratic chairman and close friend of Mr. Heastie; Mr. Blake, a former Obama staffer from the resurgent Bronx; and Ms. Rozic, who at the time of her election was the youngest woman ever elected to the Assembly.

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver will end his long reign as the head of the Assembly on Monday, say the Democratic members of the Assembly who announced they will hold a new election for speaker on Feb. 10.

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Shelly Silver, the powerful Democratic speaker of the state assembly, is the central character in a tale that seems as if it sprung from the imaginations of Kennedy, the great novelist of Albany corruption, and of Jon Stewart.

Complimenting the disorder of the Senate the whole time was the unassailable lethargy of the Assembly, where Ent - like speaker Sheldon Silver controls a Democratic supermajority that is seemingly impervious to public opinion, editorial outrage and, as Eliot Spitzer can unhappily attest, governors with «popular mandates.»

The letter, asking all members of the Assembly's Democratic Conference to sign on, did not explicitly lay out the reforms sources say the caucus really wants — term - limits on speakers and committee chairs — but instead asked a wide array of questions that hinted at their motives.

Besides the Bronx, Assembly insiders say Mr. Heastie has the backing of the Kings County Democratic Party and of Mayor Bill de Blasio — though both have denied backing any one of the contenders, outside of saying the speaker should be from New York City.

For portions of his tenure as speaker, Mr. Silver maintained a viselike hold on the Assembly, withstanding the rare challenge from Democratic colleagues, and brushing off all criticism of his performance.

Democratic members of the Assembly have hashed out a deal to make one of Silver's allies, Majority Leader Joe Morelle of Rochester, interim speaker until the election of a new, permanent speaker on February 10.

California's Assembly speaker has played a classic legislative leadership role as the bridge between a Republican governor and a strongly liberal majority Democratic caucus, helping to forge and shepherd through a long list of impressive legislation over the past couple of years.

ALBANY — Clusters of Democratic members of the Assembly met behind closed doors in the Legislative Office Building on Monday, debating whether Sheldon Silver could remain as speaker as he fights federal corruption charges.

Bailey, 34, has spent the last decade in the orbit of Carl Heastie, the former Bronx Democratic leader and current speaker of the state Assembly.

The traditional «three men in a room» — Mr. Cuomo; the Senate majority leader, John J. Flanagan of Long Island; and Carl E. Heastie, the Assembly speaker — has expanded to include Senator Jeffrey D. Klein, the leader of the eight - member Independent Democratic Conference, a breakaway cadre of Democrats who collaborate with Mr. Flanagan to help rule the Senate.

Glenwood was also revealed in the recent complaint against former Assembly speaker Sheldon Silver as one of the clients of a tax certiorari firm that paid the Democratic lawmaker undicslosed fees.

To accuse a member of the Democratic majority in the Assembly was tantamount to going up against the speaker, the members of the conference and the institution itself, said another former legislative staffer who tried to report sexual harassment by a former assemblymember.

Heastie is the sixth Democratic speaker during the tenure of Assemblyman Dick Gottfried, the longest - serving member, who was first elected when Republicans ran the Assembly in 1970.

Garcia previously acknowledged calling a former Assembly speaker a derogatory term for gays and making a disparaging comment about Asians, both of which drew swift rebuke from her Democratic colleagues.

«On Monday, there will be a vacancy in the office of speaker,» Assembly Majority Leader Joe Morelle said in Albany Tuesday while surrounded by most members of the Democratic conference.

He would not answer when asked whether Silver would resign, or whether the Democratic Assembly members would have to vote the speaker out of office.

Carl Heastie, the State Assembly speaker and until recently the chairman of the Bronx Democratic Committee, said, «She did mention that [Vermont] doesn't have gun laws, and she brought that up when she was contrasting her position on guns and votes in Senate with Senator Sanders.»

The 20 - year speaker has the power to decide unilaterally what initiatives make it into the Assembly's budget, what pieces of legislation come up for a floor vote, what resources each member receives for his office and even how much money representatives get from the Democratic Assembly Campaign Committee for their re-election bids.

There is the Lower Manhattan race to replace Sheldon Silver, the former Assembly speaker, in which the Democrat, Alice Cancel, would be a lock for the solid - blue district were it not for an unexpectedly well - organized challenge from a third - party candidate, Yuh - Line Niou, who has accused Ms. Cancel of owing the Democratic nomination to Mr. Silver's hidden hand.

Assemblyman Keith Wright of Manhattan, a former state Democratic committee co-chair, was the first of a growing number of Assembly members calling for Silver to resign his post, saying if the speaker remained, the chamber would be «mired in the swamp of dysfunction and chaos.»

And while the exact contours of Mr. Felder's demands are not clear, Carl E. Heastie, the Democratic speaker of the New York State Assembly, suggested on Friday that the budget was «99.9 percent» done and that the remaining issue, touted by Mr. Felder, «should be worked on in partnership with stakeholders and educational experts at the state Education Department, which we would fully support.»

Silver has been the leader of an impregnable Democratic majority in the Assembly for nearly two decades, so Cuomo tries to shake up the speaker's sense of security.

As speaker, Silver controlled millions of dollars in political donations that he could spend to help Democratic Assembly candidates win elections.

But while the crimes and the 12 - year prison term of Sheldon Silver, the former Democratic speaker of the State Assembly, exceeded those of Mr. Skelos and his son, Adam B. Skelos, the Skeloses» trial stood out for the gritty, unvarnished look it offered of the personal and political dealings of a family immersed in Albany's back channels.

It includes Kathleen Rice, a United States representative from Long Island who unsuccessfully challenged Mr. Schneiderman in the 2010 Democratic primary; Alphonso David, Mr. Cuomo's chief counsel; Michael Gianaris, a state senator from Queens and chief political strategist for the Democratic conference; Zephyr Teachout, a Fordham Law School professor who ran for governor in 2014; Carrie H. Cohen, a former federal prosecutor who handled the corruption trial of the former Assembly speaker Sheldon Silver; Representative Sean Patrick Maloney; and Benjamin Lawsky, formerly the state's top financial regulator.

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As female members of the Assembly, we hope that our colleagues in the Democratic Majority will call for a vote and elect a new speaker; someone untarnished by the corrupt culture of Albany and who will not tolerate abuses toward women.

Assembly Democrats revolted this week when they learned of Silver's plan to temporary appoint a group of five lawmakers to serve as speaker, and on Thursday 23 Democratic members of the Assembly wrote a letter to the candidates to replace Silver questioning them on their plans for reform.

With support from the Senate president pro tem, the House speaker and both majority leaders in the Democratic - controlled legislature, the chances of action by the General Assembly this year are virtually guaranteed.

Late Tuesday night, after two days of deliberation, the Democratic conference in the Assembly decided to allowed majority leader Joe Morelle of Rochester to serve as interim speaker until the conference votes for a permanent speaker on Feb. 10.

A former speaker of the Taraba State House of Assembly Hon. Simon Dogari and other chieftains of the All Progressives Congress on Sunday dumped the party for the Peoples Democratic Party with his supporters across the state.

Lomita's best line — bipartisanship in Albany means Democratic former Assembly speaker Sheldon Silver and Republican ex-Senate majority leader Dean Skelos could share the same jail cell — was the laugh riot of the night.

Former New York State Assembly speaker Sheldon Silver was sentenced Tuesday to 12 years in prison in a federal corruption case that prosecutors said «struck at the core of democratic governance» and polluted the institution where he wielded immense power.

The raw power of New York City's Democratic bosses has set Assemblyman — and, yes, Bronx party leader — Carl Heastie on track for coronation as Assembly speaker.

But the inability of Mr. Cuomo and Mr. de Blasio to push through several major initiatives underscored how both men failed to sway a Legislature that seemed ripe for change after the corruption convictions of Sheldon Silver, the former Democratic Assembly speaker, and Dean G. Skelos, the former Republican Senate majority leader.

In early February, Sheldon Silver, the longtime speaker of the Assembly, resigned from that post under pressure from his Democratic colleagues.

That fact that they General Assembly's Democratic leadership would hold a forum in which the only speakers were Malloy's Commissioner and representatives from the National Governors Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers is beyond belief and beyond insulting.

The speaker, who is backed by state senate powerhouse and school reformer George Norcross, has all but said that the legislation will be considered whether or not she gets the full backing of the Democratic caucus; this, in turn, would require Oliver (and Christie) to win backing from the assembly Republican minority.

Speakers include New York State Commissioner of Education and President of the University of the State of New York MaryEllen Elia, Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan, Independent Democratic Coalition Leader Senator Jeff Klein and Assembly Member Marcos Crespo.