'The best thing you can say about Sheldon Silver may be that he overstepped far enough that he could be removed from power for good,' writes heybonanos
Silver in 2008. Photo: Daniel Barry/Getty Images Sheldon Silver, in the end, will be remembered for his stubbornness. He spent not quite four decades in the New York State Assembly, about half of that time as speaker, and spent most of them saying no to things unless they went exactly the way he wanted them to. He didn’t want congestion pricing in Manhattan, so it didn’t happen on his watch. He didn’t want the commuter tax reinstated after he got rid of it, and it wasn’t.
To be fair, Silver’s was not a career entirely without achievements. He was a moderately liberal Democrat, and his backroom dealing enabled the passage of a scattering of laws that helped vulnerable people—for example he was, despite religious pressure, a comparatively early supporter of same-sex-marriage—and helped preserve rent control, keeping a lot of elders in their homes and their city. Some of that doubtless came from principle and affection for the neighborhood and its people.
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