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Eliot Spitzer and his campaign staff have made every effort to say that they have never quite looked past Election Day, but it has hardly been a secret that the behind-the-scenes action has long been underway.
The Spitzer team will make it official Nov.13 with the first meeting of the transition team, a date that has been sitting on the Outlook calendars of the inner circle for more than a week at least.
A lot of the work has already been done: so many of the key commissioners and main agency heads have been picked that they are already working their way down to deputies and other lower-ranking officials.
The plan, according to one person familiar with it, is to slowly roll out the announcements of these appointments over the coming weeks, making it seem as if deliberations began only once the votes were counted. But for the decision-makers in Spitzer's inner circle, almost everything is set, and it is just a matter of letting the press releases and newspaper headlines catch up at the pace they determine. In the meantime, they will be able to focus on what is sure to be the bruising battle which will be the new governor's first budget.