No Trade For Assembly Speaker Silver
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- April
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Asked today if he’d swap an agreement on a tax for millionaires for a deal on congestion pricing, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, D-Manhattan, said he doesn’t make trades.
“Trade?” he responded. “We don’t trade things here. Everything is voted on the merits.”
True or not, Silver at least publicly is shooting down the speculation that he’d offer his support for New York City’s congestion pricing plan if the Senate Republicans agreed to levy a higher income tax on people who make more than $1 million a year.
Silver couldn’t get the Senate to go along with the millionaires’ tax, and some leaders are privately questioning whether the congestion pricing plan is his last bargaining chip. He has not indicated whether he supports the plan, despite lengthy behind-closed-door conferences with his members this week.
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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. 
You’ve probably never heard of the Bloomberg backed Broadwater project but it’s important because it totally contradicts the congestion pricing initiative.
Congestion pricing trades cost & convenience for environmental benefits. Bloomberg’s Broadwater gas project trades (uncertain) cost & convenience for environmental harm. It’s an embarrassing contradiction which helps explain why the mayor is absent in the heated Shell Broadwater debate. Keep Shell out of Long Island Sound!
More on congestion pricing: fraudwater.blogspot.com
More on Bloomberg’s Broadwater:
www.fraudwater.com