A really stupid story from today’s Daily News –
A man suing to keep Hiram Monserrate in office claims he received an "intimidating" phone call from an assemblyman looking to replace the ousted Queens state senator.
Michael Nardiello told the Daily News he heard from Assemblyman Jose Peralta (D-Queens) last week after adding his name to a suit fighting Monserrate's historic Senate expulsion.
"He said, 'Hiram is trying to trick you,'" said Nardiello, one of six community members who joined the suit. "He said it wasn't about democracy. He said Hiram didn't want to fight him in a special election."
Webster’s definition of intimidation –
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/intimidate
: to make timid or fearful : frighten; especially : to compel or deter by or as if by threats <tried to intimidate a witness>