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According to Caribbean Life, Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn, who has led the Brooklyn Democratic Party for the past six years , is stepping away from the helm amid a contentious battle for the party’s future, amNewYork and Brooklyn Paper have learned. Bichotte Hermelyn stated the time had come “to pass the baton” and let a new leader continue to move the party forward. “In the words of Barbara Jordan, the first Black woman elected to the U.S. Congress from Texas and the South, Jordan said, ‘A nation is formed by the willingness of each of us to share in the responsibility for upholding the common good.’ We must define the ‘common good’ and begin again to shape a common future,” she said in a statement sent to amNewYork and Brooklyn Paper. Bichotte Hermelyn made history in 2020 as the first woman, and the first Black woman, to lead the Brooklyn Democratic Party. Her tenure was defined by battles fought in the courts, on
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