Silver On Property-Tax Cap, Clinton
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- May
- 6
Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, D-Manhattan, this morning sought to clarify recent reports that he opposes a school property-tax cap that is being reviewed by a commissioned headed by former foe, Nassau County Executive Thomas Suozzi.
Silver said he would support a cap, but under certain conditions—which, in other words, may be hard to accomplish if a cap was established.
“What I said was that if somebody can guarantee the advances we made in education as far as universal pre-k, as far as lowering class sizes, as far as bringing technology to classrooms,” he said on Fred Dicker’s morning radio show on Talk 1300-AM in Albany.
“If they can guarantee those items would be funded, then I have no problem with a cap. If you can’t guarantee that funding, then a cap is a problem.”
Silver said it’s also make or break tonight for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton in the Indiana and North Carolina primaries.
“I think Senator Clinton can deliver some real great comeback punches if she does very well in Indiana and she comes close or even wins North Carolina,” said Silver, a Clinton supporter.
Yet asked if she’s done if loses both, “I think it would difficult for her to sustain her candidacy if she lost.”
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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. 
