Last month we reported on what we thought amounted t0 a lazy hit ‘n’ run job [no pun intended] on local State Senator Marty Golden, by New York’s Village Voice.

The Voice basically looked at Golden’s public finance records and decided they didn’t like how he was involved with the well-known local catering business, Bay Ridge Manor, so they tried to say that even though he doesn’t technically own the place (on paper anyway) he really does; and how he makes way too much money hosting lots of Republican events there.

Since then, exposing personal finance practices of public officials, as shady or – at least in Golden’s case – as unremarkable as they may be, has become something of a media fascination.

Over the past month we learned all sorts of scintillating things: like how Charlie Rangel doesn’t pay his taxes and lives in a rent-stabilized apartment, and Marty Markowitz is a loose-canon of a philanthropist who circumvents all sorts of laws and stuff.

Now today, blogger Gerritsenbeach.net reports that someone definitely has it in for Bay Ridge’s State Senator, Marty Golden, saying:

“at the most recent property owners meeting it was brought up to Marty Golden that his literature was appearing in the back of the church and that the pastor was not happy that he was doing that.

Marty specifically said that it was not his literature and explained that someone is printing the Village Voice article and placing them in the backs and inside church pamphlets. He also explained that this person is also placing the article in numerous places including private mailboxes, churches, inside newspapers, and anywhere it could go, even sending private letters.”

Gerritsenbeach.net then linked to a good piece in today’s Daily News that actually cites a study from the Empire Center for New York State Policy that tracks the spending of our local pols from upstate.

According to the Daily News, the Empire Center for NYS Policy found: “eight state senators, including four from the city, have spent more than $500,000 each in taxpayer money on office expenses in just the last six months…

Republicans, who hold a slim majority in the Senate, accounted for seven of the eight $500,000-plus offices, the center’s report said…

Brooklyn Democratic Sen. Carl Kruger, who often votes with Republicans, ranked eighth at $515,559…

Other New Yorkers on the list include Serphin Maltese of Queens County($587,001), Frank Padavan of Queens (538,918), and Martin Golden of Brooklyn ($526,175).

According to the Empire Center: the 32 Senate Republicans averaged $445,904 in office expenses from Oct. 1 last year through March 31 this year. The Senate’s 30 Senate Democrats averaged $274,316.

Basically, Republicans are less thrifty than Democrats – or so says this study.

However, out of those top 8 spenders the Empire study cited – Golden (R) only ranks sixth in the top 8, spending a little over 10k more than his colleague from across the aisle, Democratic Senator Karl Kruger.

For those of you who may have forgotten who Karl Kruger is – he’s the guy that shut down a Coney Island redevelopment meeting last year by busing in 400 ‘protestors’ with money out of his campaign fund.

Well, he’s a spend thrift too, apparently – who knew!

Anyway, like we were saying, someone apparently has it in for the local State Senator, and he wants you to know all that literature isn’t his.