Jane S. Fisher

Fisher said she is a �lifelong nerd and policy wonk� who intends to �follow the money� to find more efficient ways to run county government and weed out corruption. Because of her varied background, she said she understands constituents� financial struggles. She said she supports a strong public transportation system and is angry that the county�s union employees had to shoulder so much of the costs of cutting Nassau�s budget. She said she would be a full-time legislator if elected, calling herself �relentless with the tenacity of an insurance salesman. I never give up.�

Fisher, 58, of Long Beach, is running on the Democratic, Working Families and Women�s Equality party lines. This is her first run for public office. She received her bachelor�s degree in business from New York University and master�s degree in elementary education from Adelphi University. She is a former pre-K public school teacher, created a comic book series about a high school radio station called WJHC that she said has been used in ESL classrooms across the country, owned a small business in Island Park that provided a children�s indoor activity center and taught creative writing to Girl Scouts. She is a personnel specialist for the Nassau County Civil Service Commission. She is married, but separated and has one son.