Port Authority police officer from Seaford to run for Hempstead Town board

Nassau Republicans have chosen Christopher Carini, a Port Authority police officer from Seaford, to run for the Hempstead Town Board seat vacated by Erin King Sweeney, a Republican party spokesman said.

Carini will also be taking King Sweeney's place on the Independence, Conservative and Tax Revolt party lines, spokesman Michael Deery said.


News reports show Carini recently talked at a Seaford school district meeting about the need for school safety and Deery said he successfully pushed for Nassau police to take control of school security cameras when the district's panic button is pushed. He also was a member of the Security Guard Staffing Review Advisory Committee appointed by the school board last year.

Carini is Seaford vice president of the Wantagh-Seaford Homeowners Association.

Republican King Sweeney, the daughter of U.S. Congressman Peter King (R-Seaford), suprised many people two weeks ago when she announced she was moving from Wantagh to North Carolina because her husband's company had relocated to Charlotte. King Sweeney, majority leader of the Republican-controlled Hempstead Town Board, had already been nominated by the county GOP to run for re-election this November.

Candidates can be replaced on the ballot so late into the campaign season for only a few reasons. Death or moving to out of state are two of them.

Since her announcement, King Sweeney deleted her Facebook page and her Twitter account, made sure her name and photo was scrubbed from the town website, and, on Monday,  she cleaned out her town office.

Lora Webster of Point Lookout is the Democratic candidate for the Fifth District town board seat. The Democratic committee describes her as "a wife, mother, cancer survivor, and Paralympian."

It explains: "At the age of 11, Lora was diagnosed with osteosarcoma (bone cancer) in her left leg, and as a result became an amputee.  An avid volleyball player post cancer, she has been a member of the US National Sitting Volleyball Team since February of 2003, competing and medaling in every Paralympic Games since 2004, including a gold medal in Rio in 2016."

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