Monday, March 10, 2008
Don't mess with the Pope
While I never knew Spitzer, I knew this guy years ago:
It seems like people who live by these rules usually come to a dramatic end.
November 19, 2007 -- A TOP aide to Gov. Spitzer in volved in the Dirty Tricks Scandal angrily threatened to "professionally kill" a top utility executive for opposing the governor's energy policies, sources have told The Post. Spitzer Policy Director Peter Pope said he was "going to kill" Gavin Donohue, the head of the Independent Power Producers of New York, an association of private energy companies, in a bitter clash early last summer over the governor's efforts to block the construction of nuclear-power plants and more than two "clean coal" plants in the state, the sources said. "He was really threatening Gavin. It was unbelievable. It was shocking," said one of the state's best-known lobbyists. "Pope was screaming and threatening to get him fired with his bosses and jabbing his finger in Donohue's face," added another source, who claimed Pope had also threatened several lobbyists over policy disagreements. "He was yelling at Gavin, 'You're working against us! You're trying to hurt us! You have to pressure [Senate Majority Leader Joseph] Bruno to get with us on this!'
It seems like people who live by these rules usually come to a dramatic end.
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