The Brooklyn Democratic Party’s annual Breakfast Election Fundraiser on Monday was a jam-packed, energetic event, bringing in prominent electeds from all corners of the city in support of the Harris-Walz presidential ticket.
The powerhouse gathering at Junior’s Cheesecake continued to be a morning must-go for NY’s top politicians, but this year’s breakfast was buoyed with the consequential Presidential Election less than fifty days away.
The prominent roster included Brooklyn Dems Party Chair Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn, the Party’s leaders, Brooklyn DA Eric Gonzalez, Public Advocate Jumaane Williams, Borough Presidents Antonio Reynoso and Mark Levine and a bevy of state senators, assemblymembers, councilmembers and more.
With the crowd standing around breakfast booths, Party Leader Bichotte Hermelyn introduced guest speakers who echoed her calls of Brooklyn’s political prominence and stressing unity.
“Trump presents an existential threat to Democracy,” said Gonzalez.”We need to do everything we can to get out the vote and get Kamala Harris into office.”
With Democratic control of the House and Senate also on the line, the Brooklyn DA rallied for support of fellow Brooklynites: Sen. Chuck Schumer to maintain Majority Leadership and for Rep. Hakeem Jeffries to become Speaker.
A breakfast building unity against ‘‘the existential threat”
Shouting out to the crowd over pancakes and coffee, Williams joked how he’s called out many of the electeds in the crowd, then shifted to “the serious existential threat,” asking all Brooklynites to “put aside our differences until Nov. 6.”
Reynoso also noted that “it’s harder when you have all this diversity. There’s different opinions, different walks of life. It’s harder when you are…
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