{"id":11184,"date":"2015-01-27T09:02:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-27T14:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=11184"},"modified":"2015-01-27T09:02:00","modified_gmt":"2015-01-27T14:02:00","slug":"circling-the-drain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=11184","title":{"rendered":"Circling the drain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the denials, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.capitalnewyork.com\/article\/albany\/2015\/01\/8560952\/silver-i-am-speaker\" target=\"_blank\">Shelly Silver is going down<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;Leaving the Capitol shortly before midnight, <a href=\"http:\/\/assembly.state.ny.us\/mem\/Sheldon-Silver\" target=\"_blank\">Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver<\/a> said he has not resigned, and plans to attend a Tuesday conference where his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nysdacc.org\" target=\"_blank\">Democratic colleagues<\/a> will begin discussing his successor.\u00a0 &#8220;I am the speaker,&#8221; Silver told reporters, flanked by two press aides as he left the Capitol. &#8220;I will be in the conference. &#8230; I have not told anyone that I am resigning.&#8221; &#8230;&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We past the point where his opinion on the issue matters.\u00a0 What is keeping him there right now is that a successor has not been settled on yet.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"ssb_list_wrapper\"><li class=\"fb2\" style=\"width:135px\"><iframe src=\"\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gunpoliticsny.com%2F%3Fp%3D11184&amp;layout=button_count&amp;action=like&amp;show_faces=false&amp;share=true&amp;width=135&amp;height=21&amp;appId=307091639398582\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden;  width:150px; height:21px;\" allowTransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/li><li class=\"twtr\" style=\"width:90px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=11184\">&nbsp;<\/a><script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+':\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');<\/script><\/li><li class=\"gplus\" style=\"width:68px\"><div class=\"g-plusone\" data-size=\"medium\" data-href=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=11184\"><\/div><\/li><li class=\"ssb_linkedin\" style=\"width:64px\"><script src=\"\/\/platform.linkedin.com\/in.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\">lang: en_US<\/script><script type=\"IN\/Share\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=11184\" data-counter=\"right\"><\/script><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the denials, Shelly Silver is going down: &#8220;Leaving the Capitol shortly before midnight, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver said he has not resigned, and plans to attend a Tuesday conference where his Democratic colleagues will begin discussing his successor.\u00a0 &#8220;I am the speaker,&#8221; 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