Northeastern Pennsylvania does not need a carpetbagger representing us in Congress. Mayor Paige Cognetti may be running in PA-08, but she is not from here. She was born and raised in Oregon, educated at an Ivy League school, and now presents herself as someone who knows what’s best for Scranton and the surrounding communities. That disconnect matters.
We do things differently in NEPA. Our values are practical, community-focused and rooted in lived experience, not ideological experiments imported from the West Coast. Even many local Democrats here are not far-left socialists, because that brand of politics simply doesn’t reflect who we are.
The results speak for themselves. The progressive, West Coast-style policies Cognetti has brought to Scranton haven’t worked, and there’s no reason to believe they would suddenly work better on a larger scale in PA-08.
NEPA deserves a representative who knows us, not someone trying to remake us.
George Schottmiller
Scranton, PA