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Pataki-Silver: Rancor from start to finish: "It's not ending on a bad note. ... It was bad from the beginning to the end.".
Byline: Tom Precious
Dec. 15--ALBANY -- After 12 years of threats, yelling and phone slamming, Gov. George E. Pataki and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver on Thursday ended their rocky relationship with what a divorce judge might describe as irreconcilable differences.
Hours after talks collapsed over several policy issues that Pataki and lawmakers were seeking to OK just three weeks before the governor's term expired, the two men did not conceal their ill feelings toward each other.
In separate sessions with reporters Thursday, Pataki and Silver lashed out at each other, knowing they'd never have to face the other again at the negotiating table.
"In 17 days, we'll have an extreme makeover in this state, and I look forward to it," Silver said.
Asked if this week's negotiations with Silver were probably the last between the two state leaders, Pataki ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Pataki-Silver: Rancor from start to finish: "It's not ending on a bad...