{"id":279200,"date":"2026-06-26T19:08:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T19:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/279200\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T19:08:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T19:08:13","slug":"progressive-leaders-could-spell-changes-for-brooklyns-dem-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/279200\/","title":{"rendered":"Progressive leaders could spell changes for Brooklyn\u2019s Dem Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BOROUGHWIDE \u2014 A WAVE OF reform-minded Democratic district leaders across Brooklyn won in Tuesday\u2019s primary, led by the progressive group New Kings Democrats, according to NY1. The eight <a href=\"https:\/\/ny1.com\/nyc\/all-boroughs\/politics\/2026\/06\/25\/new-district-leaders-could-take-over-brooklyn-party\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">new district leaders<\/a>, also called state committee members, could be bad news for the party\u2019s current chair, Assemblymember Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis means new leadership for the Brooklyn Democratic Party,\u201d Tony Melone, president of the New Kings Democrats, told NY1.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2730\u2730\u2730<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> <a style=\"font-size: inherit; background-color: #fefefe;\" href=\"https:\/\/brooklyneagle.com\/whats-news-breaking\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wnb-read-more aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/read-more-wnb-shad-1024x341.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"341\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BOROUGHWIDE \u2014 A WAVE OF reform-minded Democratic district leaders across Brooklyn won in Tuesday\u2019s primary, led by the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55437,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[18131,98,100,99,107291,9,24,63,87,17961],"class_list":["post-279200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-boating","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-kings-county-democratic-party","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-politics","tag-rodneyse-bichotte-hermelyn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}