\u00a0Matt McGloin resigned back in February.<\/a><\/p>\nDuring his swearing-in, Welby was joined by friends, family, and political figures from across the county and state.<\/p>\n
“Sometimes the lengths this man would go through to help people like no other. I know it. You know it. We all know it,” said \u00a0Lackawanna County Treasurer Angela Rempe Jones.<\/p>\n
“What has always set Thom apart is his combination of fairness and practicality he brings to every decision,” said State Senator Marty Flynn.<\/p>\n
Welby is one of 13 brothers and sisters who grew up in West Scranton.<\/p>\n
He brings with him a resume that includes working for several state representatives and even serving in the role briefly for the 113th district from 2021 to 2022.<\/p>\n
But something the Democrat has carried with him throughout his life is a sense of helping his community.<\/p>\n
“I think that there\u2019s some areas that I can fill in on and improve and perhaps bring in a little bit more money to our region, which we need for our development and for our community growth,” said Welby.<\/p>\n
Signing his name on the dotted line, Welby has already started his role as county commissioner.<\/p>\n
A job Welby says he plans to do to the best of his ability for the good of all in Lackawanna County.<\/p>\n
“I\u2019m really not into, you know, being a Democrat or a Republican,” said Welby. “I\u2019m tired of all the poison that exists between those two parties and how it\u2019s manifested itself all through government. I just want to see the three of us working together, forgetting about political parties, just doing what\u2019s right.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Democrat will fill the remainder of the term left by former Commissioner Matt McGloin. LACKAWANNA COUNTY, Pa.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49253,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-49252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49252","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=49252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}