June 11, 2026<\/p>\n
Last year, political opportunist Paige Cognetti faced\u00a0backlash<\/a>\u00a0when she decided to run for two offices at once, and now it\u2019s clear why.<\/p>\n Cognetti stopped providing updates on her schedule to Scranton residents amid her run for Congress,\u00a0prioritized<\/a>\u00a0her political ambitions in Washington, DC while a snowstorm hit Scranton,\u00a0attended<\/a>\u00a0a fundraiser with liberal elites in Chicago while police dealt with the crime wave back home, and now, couldn\u2019t be bothered to show up for the Maternal Health Coalition Seminar where she was scheduled to speak.<\/p>\n It\u2019s time for Cognetti to release her daily schedule and prove she\u2019s working for the people of Scranton, not using the office to achieve her own political ambitions.<\/p>\n \u201cPolitical opportunist Paige Cognetti abandoned Scranton the second she announced her run for Congress. Scranton families deserve real leadership and transparency from their mayor, not personal ambition and absenteeism.\u201d\u00a0\u2013 NRCC Spokesman Reilly Richardson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"June 11, 2026 Last year, political opportunist Paige Cognetti faced\u00a0backlash\u00a0when she decided to run for two offices at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":192902,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[55284,178,180,179],"class_list":["post-216889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-pa-08","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216889","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=216889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}