Democratic Scranton Mayor Paige Cognetti\u2019s campaign denied any involvement with recently placed signs that target her 8th Congressional District opponent, Republican U.S. Rep. Rob Bresnahan, but lack a \u201cpaid for by\u201d disclaimer required by law.<\/p>\n
Alleging election law violations while calling for an investigation, Brensahan\u2019s campaign said in a Tuesday news release that hundreds of signs attacking the GOP incumbent appeared across Luzerne County without the required disclaimers. His campaign provided photos of the mysterious signs, which associate Bresnahan with data centers, and said witnesses saw people working out of a rental van putting them up in the middle of the night. At least several of the same signs were also spotted in Scranton.<\/p>\n
Cognetti\u2019s campaign had \u201cno involvement whatsoever\u201d with the signs, campaign spokesperson Emma Mustion said Wednesday, and their origins remain unclear. Cognetti and Bresnahan will square off Thursday in a WVIA congressional debate ahead of Tuesday\u2019s election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Democratic Scranton Mayor Paige Cognetti\u2019s campaign denied any involvement with recently placed signs that target her 8th Congressional…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":316532,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[836,201,182,803,139,28,50,178,180,179,181],"class_list":["post-316531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-election","tag-lackawanna-county","tag-local-news","tag-luzerne-county","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-politics","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-top-stories-stt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316531","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=316531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}