{"id":132959,"date":"2026-03-08T18:01:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T18:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/132959\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T18:01:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T18:01:08","slug":"retiring-pa-state-rep-david-maloney-endorses-oley-educator-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/132959\/","title":{"rendered":"Retiring PA State Rep. David Maloney endorses Oley educator | State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BOYERTOWN, Pa. &#8211; State Representative for Pennsylvania&#8217;s 130th District David Maloney (R-Berks)\u00a0has endorsed his potential successor after announcing his retirement last month.<\/p>\n<p>In a press release Saturday Maloney said, &#8220;I am proud to endorse Melissa Brewer as candidate for 130th District. She has experience needed in a place such as the General Assembly and she is grounded in our community.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to a press release from February 24 when she announced her candidacy, Brewer is a lifelong resident of Berks County, has served as a teacher and administrator, and is a conservative Republican.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Maloney, who is the 9th Pennsylvania\u00a0lawmaker to announce they will retire at the end of the session said, &#8220;I deeply appreciate my constituency and the interactions I have had in my service and support of their needs. Standing up for the sportsmen, our wildlife, and exposing government corruption are all things I am glad to have brought to light. I will continue that mission whether I hold public office or not.\u00a0&#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BOYERTOWN, Pa. &#8211; State Representative for Pennsylvania&#8217;s 130th District David Maloney (R-Berks)\u00a0has endorsed his potential successor after announcing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":132960,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[5167,5179,8552,902,128,130,129,8553],"class_list":["post-132959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-american-political-people","tag-american-politicians","tag-democratic-party-united-states","tag-elections","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-republican-party-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}