Nonprofit exec joins 9th District Senate race

Nether Providence Township education leader Marty Molloy has announced his campaign for the April 26 special election to fill the 9th Senatorial District vacancy for Delaware and Chester counties.

Marty Molloy
Marty Molloy

Molloy joins Dan Maisano, a recently-retired magisterial district judge, and state Rep. Tom Killion (R-168) in a race for the seat that was vacated by former state Sen. Dominic Pileggi, who won a judgeship on the Delaware County Court of Common Pleas in November.

"In the real world, failing to show up to work is not an option because too many people are counting on you to do your job. Some in Harrisburg clearly have not gotten that memo,” Molloy, the director of vocational programming at YouthBuild, a school that helps at-risk young adults earn high school diplomas and prepare for careers, said in a press release. “I’m running to represent the 9th District in the state Senate because hardworking Pennsylvanians deserve elected leaders who show up to work every day and do their jobs – not for the special interests, but for the people of our commonwealth.”

A native of Berwyn, Molloy, 39, of Wallingford, is a nonprofit executive who has served as a director at YouthBuild for six years, overseeing the development of new vocational training and building institutional partnerships that have become a national model. Prior to his time at YouthBuild, Molloy was CEO of Greater Philadelphia Cares, a clearinghouse that assists other nonprofits throughout the region make a greater impact on the communities they serve, the release said.

Having taken over at a time of great financial turmoil, Molloy turned Philadelphia Cares around and orchestrated a successful merger with the United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey and co-founded the Community Action Center, the release said.

“Pennsylvania’s budget is nearly seven months’ overdue because ideological extremists have obstructed this most basic duty of our state legislature, and have done lasting damage to communities, taxpayers and schools,” Molloy said in the release. “Rather than working to create jobs, passing an extraction tax on Marcellus shale gas, and protecting open spaces, the current majority in the legislature would rather continue the Corbett legacy of massive tax breaks for the wealthy and failure to provide even the most basic funding to our schools. It’s time we elected leaders who will stand on the side of property owners and communities.

“In order to bring real change to Harrisburg we need to elect new leaders who are beholden to the people, not to an extremist ideology,” Molloy continued. “I am running to represent the residents of the 9th District because they deserve a budget that reflects their needs, not the wants of the wealthy and corporations.”

The 9th Senatorial District is comprised of the Delaware County boroughs and townships of Aston, Bethel, Brookhaven, Chadds Ford, Chester, Chester Heights, Lower Chichester, Upper Chichester, Concord, Eddystone, Edgemont, Marcus Hook, Middletown, Nether Providence, Parkside, Rose Valley, Thornbury, Trainer, Upland, and the City of Chester, as well as the Chester County boroughs and townships of Birmingham, East Goshen, West Goshen, Kennett, Kennett Square, East Marlborough, Newlin, Pennsbury, Pocopson, Thornbury, and Westtown, the release said, adding that 65 percent of the 9th District voters resides in Delaware County.

 

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