{"id":131,"date":"2023-11-16T15:56:31","date_gmt":"2023-11-16T15:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/table-of-success.local\/?p=131"},"modified":"2023-12-20T21:26:24","modified_gmt":"2023-12-20T21:26:24","slug":"rodneyse-hermelyn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tableofsuccess.mysites.io\/rodneyse-hermelyn\/","title":{"rendered":"Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
With the victory of Eric Adams, the conservative wing of the Brooklyn Democratic Party swept into power in City Hall in a way that it hadn’t quite done under Park Slope’s more Working Families Party-aligned Bill de Blasio. Kings County Democratic Party chair and Assemblymember Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn, who like Adams rose through the ranks of the county party, was one of Adams’s staunchest campaign supporters, and likewise, he had supported her tenure at the top of the party<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n With Adams (and Frank Carone<\/a>, the party’s long-time lawyer and the mayor’s chief of staff) in City Hall, Bichotte Hermelyn gained easy access to the levers of power. Her husband, Edu Hermelyn, a district leader in Brooklyn (who notably wasn’t elected to that position, as is typical, but was appointed to fill a vacant seat by the party\u2019s executive committee while he and Bichotte Hermelyn were dating), also benefited from Adams\u2019s win. In February 2022, Edu Hermelyn was appointed<\/a> as the senior adviser for strategic initiatives at the Department of Social Services, a role that came with an annual salary of $190,000<\/a>. That was after Hermelyn had made $80,000 working for Adams’s campaign, a stint during which multiple sources with knowledge of Adams\u2019 campaign staff told the New York Post that Hermelyn did little work<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The CITY asked<\/a> City Hall whether Hermelyn’s appointment broke City rules regarding holding senior government positions and political party posts at the same time. Later that day, Hermelyn resigned from City government just a month after his appointment. (Hermelyn did not resign his district leader seat but went on to lose it in an election three months later<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n