So how about instead of this:

“My preliminary conclusion is, you’ve got a guy with too much time on his hands and is nosy and was showing people that he had access to all this kind of information and doing favors for friends and looking things up over a period of time,” the governor said Tuesday. “If it goes beyond that, it’ll be a very serious matter and we’ll handle it appropriately.”

You try this:

“It makes no difference what the motivation. It’s a very serious matter and we’ll handle it appropriately.”

Quick and to the point. Seriously.