Baby, I'm Bound To Roll All Over You

Team Steamroller is on a roll.
(HT: JWF)

A TOP aide to Gov. Spitzer involved 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.
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Donohue, former deputy chief of staff to Gov. George Pataki and a one-time state Environmental Conservation Department executive deputy commissioner, wasn't intimidated by the confrontation, telling associates, "I told Pope, in so many words, to go f - - - himself."
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Pope, a longtime Spitzer friend, was known as "Eliot's bully" because of his aggressiveness as a high-level deputy to Attorney General Spitzer, said a source in the AG's Office.

Last January, newly inaugurated Governor Spitzer reportedly screamed at Republican Assembly minority leader James Tedisco, "Listen, I'm a f***ing steamroller, and I'll roll over you and anybody else!"

He went on to tell Tedisco, "I've done more in three weeks than any governor has done in the history of the state."

And yet, in the months since, he's managed to top himself again and again and again.