How Spitzer’s Dopp Handled Dissenters
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Darren Dopp, director of communications for New York Governor Eliot Spitzer, was recently suspended after allegations that he orchestrated a smear campaign on Republican Senate majority leader Joseph Bruno.
Mr. Dopp has a history of colorful exchanges with opponents, as the letters below show. One of his sparring partners during his time in a previous stint at Attorney General Spitzer’s office was the New York Post columnist John Podhoretz; another was Charles Gasparino of Newsweek, to whose editors he wrote to complain.
The documents became available after the New York Republican State Committee placed a Freedom of Information Law request to the state Attorney General’s office for e-mails related to then Attorney General Spitzer’s comments to the chairman of the Lower Manhattan Development Corp., John Whitehead.
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Dopp letters to John Podhoretz
Dopp letters to Newsweek
