Even as Darren Dopp prepares to take a job with Patricia Lynch Associates , he's still listed on the state government's web site as the governor's communications director.

Which prompted the question, during a discussion I had with another reporter last night, of who's going to replace him.

One candidate would seem to be the director of communications for the state Division of Budget, Jeffrey Gordon, who has been working in the governor's press office "on an interim basis" since Dopp's suspension from his job in July. (Which, by the way, marked the first time since Spitzer's been in elected office that he didn't have Dopp as his communications director.)

Any other ideas?

UPDATE: Gordon told me in an email that no changes to the press office have been made.

I checked in with Eliot Spitzer's office about the status of Darren Dopp, the suspended communications director who has returned to the state payroll while questions linger about the role he played in the Bruno travel affair.

Jeffrey Gordon, a Spitzer spokesman, told me Dopp has about ten weeks of vacation time but said it was not determined what will happen once that time is up. (Newsday has Dopp's vacation time at 12 weeks).

Gordon said that Dopp's vacation time accrued from his years working in the Attorney General's office when Spitzer was elected to that job in 1998.