Cognetti has history of opportunism<\/p>\n
Editor: Gov. Shapiro tried to paint a false veneer on Paige Cognetti when he declared in Wyoming that she \u201ccares deeply about NEPA,\u201d but reality shows she\u2019s a master class opportunist adept at using her position and the people who\u2019ve supported her as stepping stones to advance her political ambitions.<\/p>\n
Cognetti served less than a year on the Scranton School Board before jumping ship to take a job at the Auditor General\u2019s office. She left the board scrambling to meet a balanced budget deadline less than three weeks away, but wouldn\u2019t stay on to help. Her departure speech reeked of inauthenticity and feigned motives that her new job allowed her to help all students and school districts use taxpayer money wisely, but astute observers believe she left to make connections at the seat of political power in Harrisburg. She held the audit position only months before abandoning those lofty job promises to run for mayor.<\/p>\n
As mayor during COVID, Cognetti coerced churches into closing on Easter Sunday without any legal authority, going as far in a virtual townhall to say \u201cDon\u2019t have a church service this weekend. Please don\u2019t make my police have to go out and tell you guys to stop.\u201d<\/p>\n
And where was Paige when a blizzard hit Scranton? In Washington, D.C. to burnish her political profile at a Mayor\u2019s Conference which is D.C. code for \u201cschmoozefest.\u201d The snow cleanup was a disaster and her lack of a viable backup plan showed she\u2019s clueless.\u00a0 Another example of Cognetti ignoring her mayoral duties played out at a City Council meeting where a councilman expressed frustration that she hasn\u2019t addressed the city\u2019s long overdue need for a dedicated ambulance service.<\/p>\n
Portland Paige \u201ccares deeply\u201d alright, about herself.<\/p>\n
Andrew Massimilian,\u00a0Ransom Twp.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cognetti has history of opportunism Editor: Gov. Shapiro tried to paint a false veneer on Paige Cognetti when…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":85246,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[2497,178,180,179],"class_list":["post-219688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-paige-cognetti","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219688","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=219688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}