Mansion Meeting Between Spitzer and Bruno
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- March
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Gov. Eliot Spitzer and Republican foe Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno had their first face-to-face meeting in quite some time Monday morning at the governor’s mansion in Albany, according to aides.
The sides said the meeting was “cordial” and they discussed upcoming budget negotiations and talked socially. It doesn’t sound like they got into the Troopergate scandal, though.
Bruno and Spitzer, who invited Bruno to the mansion, have been at odds since last summer when a report by Attorney General Andrew Cuomo found that Spitzer’s aides were compiling travel documents on whether Bruno was using state aircraft for political purposes.
The two of them didn’t speak for months after that, leaving the end of last year’s legislative session at a standstill.
But Bruno suggested this week he hopes for a better relationship with the governor as the sides seek to get a budget deal by the April 1 deadline. After that, though, they’ll be fighting over control of the Senate, which the GOP controls by just one seat.
“All we want to do is govern and get results,” Bruno said.
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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. 
