May 17, 2005
Pataki to Silver: You forgot "Simon Says"
It's all but certain now that Wednesday's scheduled vote of the New York Public Authorities Control Board on the Jets stadium will be postponed until next month, either by Gov. George Pataki or by state assembly speaker Sheldon Silver; all that's left is for Pataki to remember where he put the blame. Yesterday, Pataki's office declared that the governor won't postpone the vote because Silver hadn't put his request for a postponement in writing; Silver's office replied that previous postponement requests at PACB meetings have always been verbal, and the speaker wasn't about to change that now. Albany observers called it the biggest political catfight since Marcia Cross and Teri Hatcher almost came to blows over civil-service reform.
