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Story summary
- Brooklyn Democratic Party chair Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn oversaw a vote adding dozens of executive committee seats.
- Twenty-one district leaders, including eight lame-duck members, supported; eighteen opposed.
- Gov. Kathy Hochul, Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Sen. Chuck Schumer urged reversal of the vote.
- House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Attorney General Letitia James also called for undoing the changes.
- The meeting at Thomas Jefferson Democratic Club in Mill Basin barred journalists.
