ALBANY — As a top aide to Governor Spitzer accused of political dirty tricks, Darren Dopp, resigned to take a private sector job, the Democratic governor and rival Republican leader Joseph Bruno made it clear the conflict that has gridlocked state government since July will continue.

Yesterday, Mr. Spitzer lumped Mr. Bruno in with the “rabid right” while Mr. Bruno accused Mr. Spitzer of acting in an “almost dictatorial way.” Both comments came moments after emotional ceremonies to honor firefighters and police officers who recently lost their lives in the line of duty. “The Senate is going to get to the truth … of alleged abuse of power by the highest office in this state,” Mr. Bruno told reporters.

He said “time will tell” if his Senate investigations committee will subpoena the governor to testify in the case involving two Spitzer aides who used state police to compile information about Mr. Bruno’s use of state aircraft and a state police driver on days he mixed public and political business.

“What they would like to have everyone forget is they enlisted the state police for the first time in the history of anyone’s memory … [to] ask the state police to track a person in office of the opposition party,” Mr. Bruno said. “To what purpose? To destroy him. To destroy him. Not just to discredit him. That’s what the governor has to stand up and account for.”

“Those who want to pursue frivolous and wasteful efforts, they do it at the expense of the public, at the expense of the state,” Mr. Spitzer told reporters. “I am governing.”