according to Quiver Quantitative<\/a>, which tracks trading.<\/p>\nIn May 2025, a month after a New York Times story pointed out his stock trading, Bresnahan denied he ever told his financial adviser how to invest and introduced a bill aimed at banning trading. But he declined to tell his financial adviser to stop trading stocks for fear of losing his money.<\/p>\n
He also tried to place his assets in a blind trust but said he didn’t because he wasn\u2019t happy with U.S. House restrictions that forbid him from using the same financial adviser.<\/p>\n
In December, Bresnahan signed onto a House petition to force a vote on a stock trading ban bill. The petition has failed to move forward. Bresnahan has stopped trading stocks, except when a corporate merger forces him to sell, according to Quiver Quantitative.<\/p>\n
Cognetti did not say if she would be willing to place her investments in a blind trust until Congress adopts a stock trading ban. Efforts to reach her later were unsuccessful.<\/p>\n
Cognetti touts anti-corruption record<\/p>\n
Cognetti said she\u2019s fought corruption since she was appointed a Scranton school director in 2018.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe’ve had judges, mayors, county commissioners, state senators actually go to prison for public corruption. That is not fair to us. There is a cost to that,\u201d Cognetti said.<\/p>\n
She ran for mayor after Mayor Bill Courtright resigned and went to federal prison on corruption charges.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was very pregnant with our first child and was not going to raise our family in a place where corruption was just okay,\u201d she said. \u201cOur local Democratic party went into a closed room, anointed (another) candidate and essentially said … \u2018Meet your new mayor\u2019 … We won that race. We won big.\u201d<\/p>\n
As mayor, Cognetti said she\u2019s limited spending that benefits public officials.<\/p>\n
\u201c(There are) no no-show jobs anymore, right? We run the place well, we make sure that we manage our contracts, we procure our contracts, we make sure that those tax dollars are used and respected and used in a way that helps people, actually serves people,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Kelly rips corporate donors<\/p>\n
Kelly decried the corruption spawned by corporate donations. Once, fewer than 300 billionaires contributed less than 1% of all campaign money. Now, it\u2019s 19%, he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd people don’t become that rich without expecting a return on an investment, right?\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
He said members of Congress have a lot of inside information that can inform stock trades. He called Bresnahan one of Congress\u2019 \u201cworst offenders.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cUsually you can be held accountable. Not the case here in this district, not right now, not with this guy,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Bresnahan fires back<\/p>\n
Bresnahan\u2019s campaign issued a statement criticizing Cognetti for ending maternity leave for unionized city employees, ignoring crime while raising money to run for Congress and laying off teachers as a school director.<\/p>\n
The statement also accuses Kelly of \u201cparachuting into Nanticoke to stump for Paige Cognetti … to lecture the hardworking people of Northeastern Pennsylvania about “corruption” and “making the government work for working families.”<\/p>\n
\u201cMayor Cognetti and Mark Kelly don’t know NEPA, aren\u2019t from here, and don’t speak for us,\u201d the statement says. \u201cNortheastern Pennsylvanians won\u2019t be fooled.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Democratic congressional candidate Paige Cognetti promised Saturday to ban stock trading by members of Congress if voters elect…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":169648,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-169647","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\/169647","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=169647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}