Virginia Maloney, daughter of former US Rep. Carolyn Maloney, is working for her mom’s former Metropolis Council seat.
Photograph courtesy of Virginia Maloney for Metropolis Council
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Virginia Maloney, daughter of former East Facet Congress Member Carolyn Maloney, introduced Monday that she desires to proceed her mom’s legacy along with her personal bid for elected workplace.
The youthful Maloney revealed on Nov. 18 that she is becoming a member of subsequent 12 months’s more and more crowded Democratic main to interchange term-limited Metropolis Council Member Keith Powers within the metropolis’s legislature. Powers’ 4th District seat covers giant swaths of Manhattan’s East Facet, together with Stuyvesant City-Peter Cooper Village, Midtown East, and a part of the Higher East Facet.
Powers has held the seat since 2017 and is working for Manhattan borough president subsequent 12 months.
Virginia Maloney, who’s working for a similar Metropolis Council seat her mom held between 1982 and 1993, mentioned she desires to deal with the town’s ongoing “affordability crisis” and act as a bulwark towards Republican President-elect Donald Trump.
“As your City Councilmember, I will be committed to finding common-sense solutions to the major issues facing our city,” Virginia Maloney mentioned in a press release. “From expanding and protecting affordable housing, keeping our community safe and livable, protecting and uplifting seniors, and defending our values from Washington’s extremism, I’m ready to do the hard work and deliver.”
The candidate additionally pointed to her household’s “deep legacy of public service” and its function in instructing her to work on behalf of her group.
“I’ve put that approach to work in fighting for women’s rights, promoting economic mobility, and making technology more accessible for everyone,” she mentioned. “I’m a confirmed drawback solver with expertise in federal and native authorities, in addition to the non-public sector.
The elder Maloney has been out of workplace since she misplaced her seat to US Rep. Jerry Nadler in 2022, when the 2 selected to run for a similar seat spanning each their East and West Facet strongholds following that 12 months’s redistricting.
Virginia Maloney is at present a undertaking supervisor on the tech large Meta — the father or mother firm of Fb, Instagram and Whats App. She beforehand labored for the quasi-governmental metropolis’s Financial Improvement Company, additionally as a undertaking supervisor.
Rising up in a household immersed in politics, Maloney has labored on Democratic campaigns for a lot of her life and is a part of the manager committee for the Lexington Democratic Membership.
Maloney’s early backers embody former Council Speaker Gifford Miller, who as soon as represented the identical district.
“As a former NYC Council Speaker, I can tell you that she’s exactly the kind of person we need in the Council right now. She is extremely hardworking, talented, and dedicated to good governance and transparency,” Miller mentioned in a press release.
She is getting into an already packed subject that features Fifth Avenue Synagogue COO Rachel Storch, Lexington Democratic Membership President Vanessa Aronson, state housing division coverage specialist Ben Wetzler, Marine Corps veteran Luke Florczak, and lawyer Religion Bondy.
Massive cash is already being raised within the race, Metropolis & State reported, with Storch bringing in a lot over the previous submitting interval that she has determined to opt-out of the town’s beneficiant matching funds program.
