Pushed at a bill-signing by the televised insistence of the Post’s Fred Dicker to answer questions about the state police scandal, Gov. Eliot Spitzer relented from putting off the q and a ordeal until elsewhere later in the day and stood in the Red Room insisting repeatedly, and we must say rather unconvincingly, that all relevant questions had been answered.
Democrat Spitzer dodged and demurred when asked if, as the previous attorney general, he would have accepted the refusal of gubernatorial aides Richard Baum and Darren Dopp to answer questions from that office about their use of state cops to gather and release information on his political nemesis, GOP Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno.
Several bill signings preceded the appearance, which was packed with reporters and photographers. After all was done, Democratic Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver echoed the line that it was time to get on with the “people’s business” and said he accepted the report as issued from Attorney General Andrew Cuomo. He too refused to talk about whether Baum and Dopp should have been interviewed.