Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver , a Democrat from Manhattan , had signaled that he would consider a charter school proposal , but he dug in his heels on Friday , saying that the governor was '' holding poor people hostage '' by tying federal funds for child care and welfare-to-work programs to the charter schools .
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