Where was Shelly? Golfing
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- October
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Two-thirds of state government’s ruling troika, Gov. Eliot Spitzer and Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno, were at a ceremony today held near the Capitol honoring firefighters who died in the line of duty. Both spoke about the sacrifices and courage of those who risk their lives to save others.
  The third powerful state leader, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, wasn’t there. He was at a golf outing in Westchester County, raising money for the Democratic Assembly Campaign Committee.
 Silver has attended the firefighter ceremony in other years, and “no one has questioned his commitment’’ to firfighters, said his spokesman, Dan Weiller.
 The Assembly was represented at the cerremony by freshman Assemblyman Tim Gordon of Bethlehem, an Albany suburb, who has been a volunteer firefighter.
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Jay Gallagher has covered Albany for Gannett News Service since 1984 and has been Albany Bureau chief since 1989. He`s a native of the Boston area and likes to point out that in this millennium, the score is Red Sox 1 championship, the Yankees 0. 
Cara Matthews has been a statehouse correspondent in the Albany Bureau since August 2005. Prior to that, she covered Putnam County government and politics at The Journal News for nearly five years. Before that, she worked at newspapers in Connecticut and covered the state Legislature for one of them. 
