Red Hot Poker
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- March
- 28
Here’s the most pertinent point of the Soares report on Troopergate and shows former Gov. Spitzer’s deep role in the scandal, after saying he knew nothing about it.
Former Communications Director Darren “Dopp stated that he walked from Baum’s office to the Governor’s office and said to Spitzer, ‘boss, you’re okay with the release of the plane records?’”
“According to Dopp, the Governor replied ‘yeah, do it.’”
Still inquiring further, Dopp asked Spitzer “are you sure?”
Spitzer replied that he thought Dopp wanted to release the records.
Dopp said “Joe probably will be pissed.” To this, the Governor replied, in reference to Senator Bruno: “f—- him, he’s a piece of s—-t, shove it up his ass with a red hot poker.”
Dopp stated that during this conversation with the Governor, the Governor was “frustrated” and “angry” and “he was letting it rip against Mr. Bruno.”
Dopp also testified that the Governor had “turned a little red and . . . he was drinking a cup of coffee and . . . as he was saying it, he was like spitting a little bit. He was spitting mad.”
Dopp explained that, in an effort to try to defuse the Governor’s anger, in reference to the “shove it up his ass with a red hot poker” comment, Dopp jokingly inquired “sideways” boss?”
Dopp stated that no one else was present during this conversation.”
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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. 
