{"id":100318,"date":"2026-01-30T02:37:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T02:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/100318\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T02:37:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T02:37:09","slug":"portland-paiges-pathetic-snowstorm-saga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/100318\/","title":{"rendered":"Portland Paige&#8217;s Pathetic Snowstorm Saga"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>January 29, 2026<\/p>\n<p>Cowardly Captain Cognetti is choosing not to go down with the ship after this weekend\u2019s snowstorm. As residents of Scranton\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fnrcc.us14.list-manage.com%2Ftrack%2Fclick%3Fu%3D42f87a9539429db8a35d6dac5%26id%3D4874fb2737%26e%3D2a9705ae19&amp;data=05%7C02%7Crrichardson%40nrcc.org%7C6ffa02d0c1fe4de5970d08de5f773d62%7Caedd1d67fa1049bea792b853edaad485%7C0%7C0%7C639053162898791491%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=4QbLAJY9%2BDjX80RI2Y6MeqnMvF7GHCrSIHFXjy%2BPktY%3D&amp;reserved=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">struggle<\/a>\u00a0to dig themselves out after Portland Paige\u2019s disastrous\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fnrcc.us14.list-manage.com%2Ftrack%2Fclick%3Fu%3D42f87a9539429db8a35d6dac5%26id%3Df84913e714%26e%3D2a9705ae19&amp;data=05%7C02%7Crrichardson%40nrcc.org%7C6ffa02d0c1fe4de5970d08de5f773d62%7Caedd1d67fa1049bea792b853edaad485%7C0%7C0%7C639053162898819856%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=PHxg7xX4irOkOqtoY3qR2meQ2NlFqlBOImNAFuBkpws%3D&amp;reserved=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">response<\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"91\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/STT-Headline-1024x91.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-84530\"  \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"847\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Road-1-1024x847.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-84531\"  \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Road-2-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-84532\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Cognetti is running away to DC for a fundraiser with her fellow liberal elites.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"963\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Fundraising-Email-963x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-84533\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>\u2026or, at least, she was, until she got caught and had to \u201crush back to Scranton unexpectedly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"663\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Postponement-Email-1024x663.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-84534\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Even Paige\u2019s own City Council\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fnrcc.us14.list-manage.com%2Ftrack%2Fclick%3Fu%3D42f87a9539429db8a35d6dac5%26id%3D745385aa79%26e%3D2a9705ae19&amp;data=05%7C02%7Crrichardson%40nrcc.org%7C6ffa02d0c1fe4de5970d08de5f773d62%7Caedd1d67fa1049bea792b853edaad485%7C0%7C0%7C639053162898877198%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=%2FVzvb5jOX%2FAL12dcYx84o5FfUqtlHfTc77Hq0QzwI7k%3D&amp;reserved=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">called out<\/a>\u00a0her poor response. Tough!<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPolitical opportunist Paige Cognetti completely botched her city\u2019s snowstorm response and then tried to escape to DC instead of facing the Scranton families she screwed over. Cognetti is a pathetic hypocrite who doesn\u2019t belong in any office.\u201d\u00a0\u2013 NRCC Spokesman Reilly Richardson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"January 29, 2026 Cowardly Captain Cognetti is choosing not to go down with the ship after this weekend\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":100319,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":{"0":"post-100318","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scranton","8":"tag-scranton","9":"tag-scranton-headlines","10":"tag-scranton-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100318","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=100318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}