Dean Skelos sits silently during Cuomo speech
Photo credit: AP | New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, center, cuts a ribbon to unveil a skylight over the Senate staircase at the Capitol in Albany. (Jan. 9, 2013)
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Dean Skelos, the State Senate's top Republican, drew almost as much notice here for sitting stonily through most of Wednesday's annual State of the State address as former Lt. Gov. Betsy McCaughey did for standing inexplicably through a previous one.
At points where Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's audience stood or sat applauding different passages -- as when he nearly shouted his positions on women's...
