{"id":330610,"date":"2026-08-26T23:28:52","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T23:28:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/330610\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T23:28:52","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T23:28:52","slug":"unpacking-the-brooklyn-dems-typo-riddled-psychedelically-weird-short-form-victory-lap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/330610\/","title":{"rendered":"Unpacking the Brooklyn Dems&#8217; Typo-Riddled, Psychedelically Weird, Short-Form Victory Lap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday night, Brooklyn Assemblymember Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn <a href=\"https:\/\/hellgatenyc.com\/brooklyn-democratic-party-vote-rodneyse-power-rule-change\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">presided over an internal vote<\/a> to hang onto her role as Brooklyn Democratic Party chair that fellow Dems at the City, state, and federal levels decried as undemocratic and even Trumpian.<\/p>\n<p>In a closed-door, press-free meeting in Mill Basin, where newly elected district leaders were barred from voting, Bichotte Hermelyn successfully got district leaders to expand Brooklyn Democratic Party leadership rolls\u2014and thereby increase the number of people voting to, say, keep Bichotte Hermelyn as the head of the party. According to the New Kings Democrats, Bichotte Hermelyn&#8217;s progressive opponents, the vote on rules was <a href=\"https:\/\/hellgatenyc.com\/reformers-sue-to-stop-rodneyse-bichotte-hermelyns-brooklyn-dems-power-grab\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">both illegal and undemocratic<\/a>, a cheap trick in the face of a successful progressive effort to wrest the party away from Bichotte Hermelyn that was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newkingsdemocrats.com\/brooklyn-cant-wait-wins-new-era?ref=hellgatenyc.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">years in the making<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Then, on Wednesday, the Brooklyn Democrats <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/bkdems\/status\/2092603082269962686?s=20&amp;ref=hellgatenyc.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">dropped a video<\/a> seemingly designed to combat any negative press that might arise from a successful <a href=\"https:\/\/hellgatenyc.com\/rodneyse-bichotte-hermelyn-chaos\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">11th-hour power grab<\/a> in the wake of a <a href=\"https:\/\/hellgatenyc.com\/morning-spew-a-new-era-for-the-brooklyn-dems\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">decisive electoral defeat<\/a>.\u00a0<\/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":"On Tuesday night, Brooklyn Assemblymember Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn presided over an internal vote to hang onto her role&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":330611,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-330610","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\/330610","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=330610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}