Islip’s Democratic Supervisor Philip Nolan (right) has hired Victoria Ryan, wife of Republican Assemb. Philip Boyle (left), in the $75,000-a-year post as the director of Islip’s Foreign Trade Zone at Long Island MacArthur Airport.
Nolan said that politics played no role in Ryan’s hiring and it was her background doing economic development work in Albany County. “We were very impressed,” he said. “Clearly she had the skill set in which we were interested.”
In the early 1990’s, Ryan headed the eeconomic development efforts for the Albany county executive office, during which time she forged a public-private partnership with the local chamber of commerce to help finance business development efforts. For the past five years she has done business development for Beach House Communications.
While her husband is a Republican....
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Ryan only months ago registered to vote as an Independence Party member. Ryan replaces Olga Murray, a Conservative. Ryan’s appointment is expected to be formalized by the town board in early April.