{"id":299255,"date":"2026-07-18T02:56:26","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T02:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/299255\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T02:56:26","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T02:56:26","slug":"reform-coalition-taps-pena-as-choice-to-lead-brooklyn-dem-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/299255\/","title":{"rendered":"Reform coalition taps Pe\u00f1a as choice to lead Brooklyn Dem Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BOROUGHWIDE\u2014 A COALITION OF reform Democrats known as \u201cBrooklyn Can\u2019t Wait\u201d claims they have enough votes to control the Brooklyn Democratic Party come September, according to NY1. The group has chosen Sunset Park district leader <a href=\"https:\/\/ny1.com\/nyc\/brooklyn\/news\/2026\/07\/17\/reform-democrats-pick-candidate-for-new-brooklyn-democratic-chair\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Julio Pe\u00f1a<\/a> to be the party\u2019s next chair.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The coalition, which has a slim majority in the county\u2019s executive committee, is looking to unseat Assemblymember Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn, who has led the Brooklyn Democrats since 2020.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAre reformers trying to dismantle \u2018the machine\u2019 or inherit the party that I rebuilt and reformed?\u201d Bichotte Hermelyn asked in a release from the <a href=\"https:\/\/brooklyneagle.com\/401471\/rodneyse-bichotte-hermelyn-made-leadership-sexy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Democratic County Committee<\/a>, published in the Brooklyn Eagle. \u201cI welcome more reform \u2026 because I drastically reformed the party,\u201d she added.<\/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 COALITION OF reform Democrats known as \u201cBrooklyn Can\u2019t Wait\u201d claims they have enough votes to control&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":299256,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[3302,98,18390,100,99,113753,9,24,5325,63,17961],"class_list":["post-299255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-breaking","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-democratic-party","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-julio-pena","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-no-paywall","tag-nyc","tag-rodneyse-bichotte-hermelyn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299255","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=299255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}