What was behind the coup at the Home Reporter ??? It is something simple..... It's called >>> COERCION <<< and/ or >>> EXTORTION <<< It has been around for a long time.....

Having seen Marty Golden in action for many years as a politician and elected official...  Having heard about his exploits as a budding neighborhood entrepreneur, local events hall operator and business leader in Bay Ridge.....  And lest we forget, a very problematic career in the NYPD, including a stint in the infamous "Narcotics" detail.......  It can now be rightfully concluded and said openly at this time that Marty Golden  ---  the man running for re-election as our state senator  ---  is,  was,  and has been for a very long time  >>>  a serial extortionist <<<

Needless to say, finding adequate proof to make a charge of criminal extortion, as defined in New York State, stick to Senator Marty might be very difficult indeed, especially the component of threats of violence;  that's because Marty has be an expert at coercive behaviour that  >>> don't need no threats of any stinkin' violence <<<

Although "narcs" from Marty Golden days on the job would tune up non-cooperating  drug dealers at the drop of a dime,  much easier to use the binding and loosening powers of the anti-narcotics unit.  (Never forget what the Mollen Commission said about police corruption during Marty's days on the force.....)


LIKELY COERCION BEHIND THE OTEY MOVE AND THE "HOME REPORTER" ENDORSEMENT 
A pro-Marty commenter on this blog tipped the hand as how this probably was done to a  Mr. Dozier Hasty so as to Jerry-rig the instant rise of Chuck Otey, quicly followed by the "Home Reporter" endorsement of Marty..... 

Look at this:
"....  The Home Reporter [had] become a liberal rag....  
[A local Democrat's]  propaganda piece. Time to right the ship. How long did these fools think they could keep pissing on advertisers and survive?"

Does anybody doubt that Marty G is more than capable to jin-up that kind of coercive pressure  ---  first, on the advertisers, then, on Mr. Hasty,  [He's done it before to force some of the local BIDs to put money into his concerts in the park.

There's much more than that.....  When Marty had enough of being a tenant operator of the Bay Ridge Manor,  there was a lot of figurative pushing and shoving of an elderly man who only wanted a steady income in his retirement.   It was all engineered to force the old man  ---  "who was like a father" to Marty Golden ---  to make a change of title to the property that housed the Bay Ridge Manor.

One can easily see how a quick use of Marty G's heavy hand on Dozier Hasty might just do the trick when came to an endorsement by the "Home Reporter".....