Nassau County Legislator - 10th District
Democratic, Independent, Working Families
Ellen W. Birnbaum (Incumbent)
Background:
DEMOCRATIC
Birnbaum, 64, of Great Neck, is running on the Democratic, Working Families and Independence Party lines. She is running for her fourth two-year term.
Policies:
- Birnbaum touted her yearslong advocacy for reopening the Nassau police Sixth Precinct in Manhasset. It reopened in April and is currently being renovated.
- She said she will continue working with residents to improve traffic safety, including through traffic safety analyses and public meetings.
- Birnbaum said she will work to ensure there is enough money in the county budget to complete restoration of the Saddle Rock Grist Mill and to reopen the centuries-old site as a county museum.
Republican, Conservative
Helene Sherman
Background:
REPUBLICAN
Sherman, 57, of Thomaston, is running on the Republican and Conservative lines. She is an attorney.
Policies:
- Sherman supports exploring giving owners of vacant commercial properties tax breaks to encourage occupancy, with taxes gradually rising as a business establishes itself.
- The county must look more carefully at eliminating jobs, including patronage jobs, Sherman said.
- Sherman said there is “too much duplicative government” and supports the county looking into how to “get rid of all of these incorporated villages.”