Lobbyist can’t have it both ways, Bruno says
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 How hard is it to straddle the personal and political divide between Gov. Eliot Spitzer and Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno? A prominent Capitol lobbyist might have found out today.
 Abraham Lackman, head of the Commission on Independent Colleges and Universities, worked for the Senate and Bruno for years as their chief fiscal adviser before leaving to lobby a few years ago.
 Earlier this week, he was identified in a newspaper story as one of the people Spitzer has reached out to for advice as he tries to figure out how to proceed in the wake of the “Troopergate’’ scandal that involves Spitzer aides siccing the State Police on Bruno.
 Lackman giving advice to Spitzer hasn’t gone over well with Bruno.
 “Abe can’t have it both ways,’’ Bruno said in an interview on WROW-AM radio today. “I am very disappointed in Abe.’‘
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Jay Gallagher has covered Albany for Gannett News Service since 1984 and has been Albany Bureau chief since 1989. He`s a native of the Boston area and likes to point out that in this millennium, the score is Red Sox 1 championship, the Yankees 0. 
Cara Matthews has been a statehouse correspondent in the Albany Bureau since August 2005. Prior to that, she covered Putnam County government and politics at The Journal News for nearly five years. Before that, she worked at newspapers in Connecticut and covered the state Legislature for one of them. 
