Assemblywoman Glick overheard warning GOP colleague not to criticize Speaker Silver

New York Post ^ | 06/25/13 | BETH DEFALCO

[AtlasStalled]

You’d better not criticize Sheldon Silver if you know what’s good for you.

A Silver ally warned a GOP critic of the powerful Democratic Assembly speaker that she’d better stop her attacks — or else, The Post has learned.

Assemblywoman Deborah Glick (D-Manhattan) was overheard telling Republican colleague Nicole Malliotakis that there would be consequences if the GOPer kept calling for Silver to step down over the Vito Lopez sexual-harassment scandal.

“You’ve been in the paper a lot talking about the speaker. You should quiet down before someone starts playing games with you,” Glick told Malliotakis on the floor of the Assembly, according to a person who overheard the conversation.

[alloysteel]

Is this a threat? Hard to tell, when trying in interpret NewYorkSpeak, a strange language where nothing much is actually a reflection of reality.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Thug politics. Just like they do in the WH.

[RJS1950]

Or what? Even the loyalists during the revolution were not this bad.

The National Socialist Democrat Party is the Nazi party of the U.S.

It is time to put a stop to these Brownshirts.

[Carriage Hill]

“You should quiet down before someone starts playing games with you,...”

Sure sounds like one to me.

[SC_Pete]

It’s a clear message which requires no footnote.

[MplsSteve]

I have to agree with you about the NewYorkSpeak comment.

While a lot of us would see that as a threat, there’s another line of belief where the Dem is telling the Rep “I like you. But you’re dealing with some hard-nosed people here and maybe you should be careful about what you say. I’d hate to see something happen to you.”

[JPG]

The NY rat says, “Don't you be messin’ with my cheese”.

[AtlasStalled]

It sounds to me like she’s making a veiled threat. Just because she represents the West Village where the Genovese family still reigns doesn’t me she has to sound like a mobster.