“After more than 21 years of dysfunction, greed and corruption, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver’s reign will come to an end on Monday. The Assembly Majority has been a rubber stamp for whatever Silver desired; now, we have a chance to come together to elect a new speaker in what should be a bipartisan, transparent process. I look forward to working with my colleagues across the aisle to make sure that a new era, one worthy of the hardworking, middle-class families of Orange and Rockland counties, comes to Albany.”