For Dems, Assembly is a big clearinghouse
Photo credit: Chris Ware | Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver speaks to members of the press in Charlotte, N.C., before the Democratic National Convention. (Sept. 3, 2012)
Sometimes it becomes hard to tell where the State Assembly ends and the state Democratic Party begins.
For the fiefdoms, players and interests that drive the state's dominant party, the Assembly serves as a well-trafficked intersection, a kind of clearinghouse.
This is one reason that the latest sex-harassment storm, now blowing through Albany's lower house and buffeting longtime Speaker...
