Casey Seiler at Capitol Confidential reports that Republican U.S. Senate candidate Wendy Long was in Albany Thu., Sept. 6 mentioning Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand’s continued support for embattled Democratic New York Assemby leader Sheldon Silver. “I’m just saying her family and she stand to benefit from the relationship with Speaker Silver — they have benefited from that relationship,” Long said. “So I think it’s especially important, given that appearance of that relationship and given the fact that she has held herself out as someone who would stand up for women, to come forward and call for Speaker Silver to step aside.... In analogous situations, Kirsten Gillibrand when she was running in 2006 didn’t waste any time in calling for Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert to step aside because of how he was handling the Mark Foley allegations back then. … Yet when it’s not to her political benefit, she’s not interested in standing up for women.” Gillibrand campaign spokesman Glen Caplin responded: “I’m not going to comment on this baseless trash from a struggling campaign.” The video above, of the entire quetsion-and-answer session with the media in ALbany, is from Kyle Hughes of NYSNYS. See the full story in Capitol Confidential.