Talk:Sheldon Silver
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This page needed considerable cleaning up. Sorry - I'm still a bit of a newbie at Wikipedia, but I *have read* and *do understand* issues like NPOV and avoiding weasel-phrases.
So, I'm cleaning up some of these issues, and I started this talk page. Never done the latter before, so apologies if I'm screwing up (I've made a note to look into how to do them -- and I mean well -- so anyone who flames me for it, please send me your phone number and we'll chat. >;-)
Some of the assertions were just plain biased (and I'll mention I'm a centrist, politically, from the entire other end of the country). It was laughable that Silver was portrayed as some sort of lone Democrat counterweight to the crushing power of the Republican Party in NY State -- today's (2/4/06) NY Times has an article referring to NY as a Democratic stronghold, as one tiny example.
- Silver was not portrayed as the lone Democratic counterweight "to the crushing power of the Republican Party in NY State." He was simply portrayed as the counterweight in the state government, which he essentially is. I'd personally argue the Republicans are less powerful than the Democrats in the state overall, but the fact is that Republicans control the Governorship (at least for now) and they control one half of the Legislature (and probably will for a while). They are not toothless in the least, and even if they lose the Governor's desk this year, they will not be toothless.
- I reworded the offending paragraph, but put it back more or less in its original form. The point about Silver being (as originally worded "by default") the lone counterweight is kind of a segway into some of the criticism section. It's also just how New York State politics have worked for decades, and hardly a problem unique to Silver; indeed, if the governor were a Democrat, Joseph Bruno would by default become the lone counterweight to Democratic power in the lawmaking process. Anyway, I looked at the old wording and can see where it's confusing (that may be my fault), but the idea behind it was more or less factually correct (the terms 'legislature' and 'assembly' were mixed up in one place). Bolwerk 17:35, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
I have removed the section of criticism that was comprised of unverifiable information about Silvers defense of housing and rent subsidies. This section was nothing more than a partisan attack of the politician being discussed. Serviusx 01:16, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
External Link question. Does anyone else have trouble seeing this link just to the right of the colon here: Speaker Silver's New York State Assembly Page (link is before this parenthetical comment)? It is invisible in my Firefox and I don't know why. Help? - Corporal Tunnel 15:58, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
