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A protest demonstration outside Republican state Sen. Martin Golden’s Bay Ridge office organized by left-leaning Muslim and Jewish groups might have had enough power to sway undecided voters to vote for his Democratic opponent Andrew Gounardes, according to a leader of one of the organizations.
Mohammad Khan, a member of the Board of Directors of the Muslim Democratic Club of New York (MDCNY), said the Nov. 2 demonstration his group organized with Yalla Brooklyn and the Jewish Vote to protest Golden’s refusal to fire controversial campaign staffer Ian Reilly was a pivotal moment in the last stages of the bitter campaign.
“There was definitely a lot of sentiment about folks being upset over Golden’s refusal to fire the staffer,” Khan told the Brooklyn Eagle on Thursday.