Is the head of Darren Dopp enough for Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno? Apparently not. After it was announced that in the wake of Troopergate Dopp is leaving his position as communications director for Gov. Eliot Spitzer to take a position with a lobbying firm, Bruno said, "The Senate is going to get to the truth ... of alleged abuse of power by the highest office in this state."
While Bruno was fomenting on, did anyone else find irony in the disclosure that Gov. George E. Pataki was also tracking Bruno's travels since 2004? What was different then is that the record of his proclivity for using transport on our tax dollars to attend fundraisers remained classified. Spitzer's team instead appears to have eagerly drawn media attention to it.
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While we're at it, where is Bruno's outrage over the recording of his travels by the Pataki administration? Why would only Spitzer's alleged tracking matter? So much for a thorough investigation.
In the spirit of open government that this administration was aiming for before it was derailed by a helicopter, shouldn't the records of official transport of the governor, Bruno and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver all be disclosed?
