Photo: Nassau County Police
(Mineola, NY) – A Long Island Democrat running to be a county legislator — who went missing nearly five months ago — will remain on the November ballot anyway, a Nassau judge ruled September 29th.
County legislature candidate Petros Krommidas, 29, disappeared in April after going for a late-night swim in Long Beach, where police later found his car abandoned near the boardwalk with his clothes and cellphone left behind on the sand. An extensive search was held for weeks with no results.
Republicans successfully sued to block Democrats’ efforts to replace Krommidas with community advocate James Hodge, with the judge siding with the GOP’s contention that the candidate wasn’t “legally declared deceased,” according to Supreme Court Justice Gary Knobel’s decision.
The Board of Legislators District 4 election is November 4th
