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• "Rarely does one man have a chance to do so much harm to so many," intoned the New York Times editorial board, who went on to call him "cowardly," "opaque and narrowly political," and "unworthy of his office."
• The Daily News, which lambasted the Assembly speaker with a front-page headline reading "SHELL GAME OF SHAME," wrote a staff editorial saying he "never gave congestion pricing a fair shot."
• NYDN columnist Michael Daly went a step further, saying that Silver "said 'no' to democracy." "What Shelly doesn't want, nobody gets," Daly griped, asking: "Why even have the rest of the Assembly?"
• "The cynicism and dysfunction of Albany have reached new depths," added the Newsday editorial board, who called Silver's rejection of the plan "murder." "It's a dark day for New York," they warned. "And there's no silver lining."
Now all that's left to see is whether any of Silver's voting constituents, who probably would like to see a little less traffic and pollution in their Lower East Side district, read the papers.
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