Speaker Silver: I ain’t going anywhere
Says Assembly members support him
ALBANY — Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver said Monday his Democratic colleagues support him in the powerful post he’s held since 1994, even as the chamber faces a lawsuit from Silver’s handling of a sexual harassment scandal.
“Members have spoken to me,” Silver said after emerging from closed door negotiations with Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Senate leaders. “They have been supportive. They believe that members of the media are being rather unfair.”
Monday’s comments are the first from Silver since two women on the Assembly staff sued him, former Assemblyman Vito Lopez and the Assembly over the scandal last week.