{"id":328897,"date":"2026-08-25T01:23:06","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T01:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/328897\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T01:23:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T01:23:06","slug":"reformers-sue-to-stop-rodneyse-bichotte-hermelyns-brooklyn-dems-power-grab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/328897\/","title":{"rendered":"Reformers Sue to Stop Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn&#8217;s Brooklyn Dems Power Grab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Members of the Brooklyn Democratic Party&#8217;s reform bloc <a href=\"https:\/\/iapps.courts.state.ny.us\/nyscef\/ViewDocument?docIndex=LSUTxSoZsXxmKSGCp\/6VuQ==&amp;ref=hellgatenyc.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">filed a lawsuit<\/a> in Brooklyn Supreme Court Monday seeking an injunction to halt the current party leadership&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/hellgatenyc.com\/rodneyse-bichotte-hermelyn-chaos\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">scheme<\/a> to rewrite its voting rules to hold on to power.<\/p>\n<p>Reformers within the Brooklyn Dems had emerged from the primary election in June confident that, after years of effort, they had finally elected enough district leaders to <a href=\"https:\/\/hellgatenyc.com\/morning-spew-a-new-era-for-the-brooklyn-dems\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">seize control<\/a> of the party and oust its current leadership team, headed up by chair Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn. But last week, Bichotte Hermelyn unveiled a scheme to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=iewPeHvowt0&amp;ref=hellgatenyc.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">expand its leadership rolls<\/a>. Reformers howled that this was a last-ditch effort by a rump leadership team to pack the party leadership with its own loyalists, negating the results of the election and thereby hanging on to power. A parade of Democratic elected officials <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1B2wallalXyK6af13lifny-0oWYO1K-zAjuIhEGKVOmA\/edit?tab=t.0&amp;ref=hellgatenyc.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">condemned the ploy<\/a>, but it wasn&#8217;t clear what, if anything, opponents could do to stop the proposed rule change from being voted forward at a hastily called meeting scheduled for Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>          Give us your email to read the full story<\/p>\n<p class=\"content-cta__description mb\">\n          Sign up now for our free newsletters.\n    <\/p>\n<p>      <a href=\"https:\/\/hellgatenyc.com\/newsletter\/\" class=\"passata color-hg__text background-hg__background p-match radius-match border text-2125 text-decoration-none mb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n        Sign up<br \/>\n      <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Members of the Brooklyn Democratic Party&#8217;s reform bloc filed a lawsuit in Brooklyn Supreme Court Monday seeking an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":328898,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-328897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328897","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=328897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/328898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}