Bruno urges more transparency, then draws a shade
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- May
- 7
Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno was having a fine time today calling for more accountability and transparency in government until he was asked to provide some information about himself.
During a press conference about a Senate plan to force government to be more open, Bruno was asked to provide itineraries of trips he took on state aircraft in the first half of 2007.
That was the critical period when State Police, at the instigation of then-Gov. Eliot Spitzer’s top staff, and possibly the governor himself, were keeping tabs on whether he was using state resources for political trips. That was the subject of an Albany Times Union story last July that set off the “Troopergate’’ scandal.
“Where the hell have you been?’’ he asked the Times Union reporter today who asked for the schedule information. “Since you guys distorted he news on the front page of your paper…lied about my schedule, guess what? I haven’t used the state aircraft since I said I wouldn’t. So you want my itinerary? It’s zippo. Zero. ‘’
But nothing about the first six months of last year, when he did use the state plane. Transparency, apparently, has its limits.
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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. 
