{"id":359575,"date":"2026-09-29T06:58:54","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T06:58:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/359575\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T06:58:54","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T06:58:54","slug":"bichotte-hermelyn-will-not-seek-reelection-as-brooklyn-chair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/359575\/","title":{"rendered":"Bichotte Hermelyn will not seek reelection as Brooklyn chair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Assemblywoman Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn announced Monday evening on NY1 that she will not seek reelection as the Brooklyn Democratic Party chair.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m now up to my next chapter in life, and I\u2019ve served as the Brooklyn Democratic Party chair for over six years. And I\u2019m very proud of what we\u2019ve done. We\u2019ve built a very strong organization,\u201d she told NY1 political anchor Errol Louis during an exclusive interview on \u201cInside City Hall.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bichotte Hermelyn added that the executive committee will expand and be \u201cmore inclusive to have every day Brooklynites participate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, I\u2019m just really excited that I am leaving the party in that capacity, a stronger, more inclusive, more transparent party and I\u2019m just really excited,\u201d she said.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The move comes one month after Bichotte Hermelyn <a href=\"https:\/\/ny1.com\/nyc\/all-boroughs\/politics\/2026\/08\/26\/brooklyn-party-boss-wins-enough-votes-to-clinch-controversial-rule-changes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">pushed a controversial party rule change<\/a> that kept her in power as progressive Democrats looked to oust her as chair.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Tap the video player above to watch the interview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Assemblywoman Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn announced Monday evening on NY1 that she will not seek reelection as the Brooklyn&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":359576,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[378,25,98,100,99,313,377,379,9,24,12,63,27,200],"class_list":["post-359575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-app-inside-city-hall","tag-app-top-stories","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-deanna-garcia","tag-inside-city-hall-segments","tag-inside-city-hall-shows","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-top-stories","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359575","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=359575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}