Meet your next Nassau legislator: Olena Nicks (with reference to NUMC wars)

 

Olena Nicks is the Democrat running in the Nassau Legis. District 2 election Feb. 25 to replace former county legislator Siela Bynoe.

A Westbury Democrat, Bynoe was elected to the state senate last November.

But the outcome really isn't in doubt.

District 2 is a solid Democratic district. It includes Westbury, Uniondate and portions of Hempstead Village.

So far, no Republican candidate has been announced. Undoubtedly Nassau Republicans will nominate someone to run, someone who will take on the hopeless race to accumulate goodwill points toward some future GOP post.

Nicks has performed her own suicide missions in the past, running and losing to then-Republican Hempstead Town clerk Kate Murray* and Republican Hempstead Town Supervisor Don Clavin.

She is owed an easy race.

Nicks, of Unondale, has been active in her community and is a longtime member of the Uniondale Fire Department.

But will she concentrate on the same issues as Bynoe?

Bynoe was the county legislature's most persistent watchdog over the Nassau University Medical Center.

In fact, Democrats' most consistent critics of NUMC's management are no longer in the same offices; Besides Bynoe, there were state senator Kevin Thomas of Levittown and former Assemb. Taylor Darling of Hempstead Village.

Thomas did not run for re-election and recently took a job in a public relations firm. Darling lost her Assembly seat when she lost her Democratic primary challenge to Bynoe.

It had been speculated  that Thomas would  end up in a high-paying position at NUMC if NUMC's general counsel and recently named CEO Meg Ryan -- the target of critics from both sides of the political aisle -- was ever ousted from her $550,000 a year job.

But Ryan is still there -- an amazing survivor in Nassau grueling political wars.

And she doesn't mind taunting her critics, particularly Democrat Governor Kathy Hochul:

           



                                                                              


 *clerk race corrected


                                                                          

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