How Mr. Silver Manages To Unite Post, Times, O'Reilly, Daily News

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By JACOB GERSHMAN - Staff Reporter of the Sun
June 23, 2006

ALBANY - What do television host Bill O'Reilly and the editorial pages of the New York Times, the Daily News, and the New York Post have in common? They have all taken turns heaping scorn on New York's Democratic Assembly speaker, Sheldon Silver, the poster boy - or, some would argue, whipping boy - for Albany's troubles.

In recent weeks, Mr. Silver, the laconic litigator from the Lower East Side who has dedicated almost half of his 62 years to the world of Albany politics, has had a truck-full of bad press delivered to his doorstep - the type of press generally reserved for tabloid villains given monikers like "fiend."

Mr. Silver has taken hits for his positions on a broad range of legislative issues from the expansion of the state's DNA database (he opposed taking samples from all convicted criminals) to jury awards in public employee disability cases (he blocked a measure that would prevent workers from collecting twice for the same injury).

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