Babylon Town Council Member (2 Seats Open)

LIBERTARIAN

Angevine, 58, is running on the Libertarian line. He has worked in personal transportation for three decades and is an ordained minister at Bread of Life World Outreach Center in Wyandanch. He has never run for public office and said he is doing so now to have a positive impact on people.

• Angevine wants to help provide solutions to people, especially young people, who struggle in securing affordable housing on Long Island.
• Seeing mentally ill people, especially those who are homeless on the street, while driving to and from pickups and drop-offs, he wants to direct government resources to help house the mentally ill homeless.
• He wants to work with others to address and prevent gang violence and drug abuse.

REPUBLICAN

Barci, 60, is running on the Republican Party line. Messages left for the candidate with both the town and county Republican committees were not returned, and the candidate could not be reached for this article.

REPUBLICAN

Broughton, 52, is running on the Libertarian Party line. A guidance counselor for 17 years and consultant for schools, Broughton has worked with at-risk populations and provided programs, counseling and training for students. He has never run for political office before and started Man in the Mirror Youth Consulting Service in 2000.

• Drawing on his time working with formerly incarcerated people in re-entry programs and teaching gang violence prevention, Broughton sees the high rate of incarceration as an issue he will continue working on, partnering with the Department of Labor, correction departments and schools.
• As a town board member, he would create job skills training to help widen the pool of qualified applicants for town jobs, which provide accessible health care.
• He would continue his push for fair and equal housing, holding landlords who prey on low-income tenants accountable for maintaining their buildings.

DEMOCRATIC

Gordon, 54, is running on the Democratic, Conservative and Independence party lines. She is seeking her fourth term. A retired lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army Reserve and a guidance counselor for more than two decades, Gordon is also challenging Rep. Peter King for Congress in 2020.

Gordon is program director of Babylon Town’s Ujima internship program for minority students and leads the town’s Veteran’s Advisory Council.

• She is proud of her time on the town board holding the line on taxes, staying within the 2% cap on tax increases, while providing town services.
• Points to successful downtown revitalization projects, especially Wyandanch Rising, as rewarding.
• Said she revitalized the Veteran’s Advisory Board, which she has run since 2007, into a more robust program that offers veteran services and has raised more than $1 million for Wounded Warrior Project.

REPUBLICAN

Kremer, 38, is running on the Republican Party line. An election clerk at Suffolk County Board of Elections, she has worked for law firms in the past. This is her first run for public office.

• Kremer declined to outline any issues important to her campaign, saying only that she thinks Republicans deserve representation on the town board.

DEMOCRATIC

McSweeney, 40, is running for his first full term on the Democratic, Conservative and Independence party lines after serving the remainder of Tom Donnelly’s term beginning in 2017. A member of the FDNY for 15 years and the North Babylon Volunteer Fire Company for 19 years, McSweeney is chairman of the town’s Department of Public Safety Committee.

• He plans to remain available to constituents, responding to quality-of-life issues he sees on social media and meeting personally with people who need assistance.
• Points to the town’s aggressive fight against abandoned and foreclosed “zombie” homes, and supports the program and database created to respond to the issue.
• Supports maintaining the town’s focus on infrastructure, like repaving and repairing roads, all while maintaining a AAA bond rating and ensuring the town keeps retiring more debt than it takes on each year.