{"id":360994,"date":"2026-09-30T18:04:25","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T18:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/360994\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T18:04:25","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T18:04:25","slug":"brooklyn-democratic-party-chair-wont-seek-reelection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/360994\/","title":{"rendered":"Brooklyn Democratic Party Chair Won&#8217;t Seek Reelection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bichotte Hermelyn stopped short of formally endorsing Lucas in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cityandstateny.com\/politics\/2026\/09\/rodneyse-bichotte-hermelyn-backs-nikki-lucas-brooklyn-dems-chair\/416291\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">interview with City &amp; State<\/a>, but praised her ties to Democratic leaders in Brooklyn and Albany.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf (Lucas) is a candidate, I think she&#8217;s more than likely to get the support of a lot of people,\u201d Bichotte Hermelyn said.<\/p>\n<p>A judge Tuesday blocked a scheduled vote on the next chair after an appeals court invalidated controversial changes to the party\u2019s rules.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bichotte Hermelyn stopped short of formally endorsing Lucas in an interview with City &amp; State, but praised her&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":360995,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-360994","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\/360994","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=360994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}