Brooklyn Democrats Don’t Need Your Democracy
Hell Gate was outside a Mill Basin clubhouse Tuesday night as party chair Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn led a vote to override June's election results.
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Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn's 11th-hour attempt to cling to power over the Brooklyn Democratic Party succeeded by a single vote Tuesday night, after a four-hour meeting in Southern Brooklyn in which reformers who've fought for almost two decades to overthrow the old guard saw their election victory snatched away.