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Assembly Speaker Fight Looms After Election Surges
After election night shifts, New York Assembly remains unlikely to oust Speaker Shelly Silver. Bragman and 18 allies push for power shifts, but Silver gains backing as Democrats widen to 99 seats. Analysts say reform panel proposals may tweak but not topple his leadership before 2002 redistricting.
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Albany
State Assembly
Michael Bragman
Sheldon Silver
Silver
Bragman
Cicero
Assembly
Assembly Democrats
William Magnarelli
Syracuse
U.S. Senate
Hillary Rodham Clinton
New York
al Gore
Jeffrion Aubry
Queens
Aubry
George Pulaki
Senate
Edward Sullivan
Manhattan
Shelly Silver
Sullivan
Shelly
Magnarelli
Gerald Benjamin
State University of New York At
New Paltz
Ulster County
Benjamin
Robert Spitzer
Suny Cowland
James Brennan
Brooklyn
Roy Goodman