Cognetti announces ‘anti-corruption’ agenda she’d pursue in Congress
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SCRANTON — Democratic Scranton Mayor Paige Gebhardt Cognetti announced Thursday an ambitious eight-point “anti-corruption policy agenda” she’d push to enact in Congress if she unseats Republican U.S. Rep. Rob Bresnahan in November.
Cognetti, the Democratic candidate for the 8th Congressional District seat Bresnahan narrowly won in 2024, again accused her GOP opponent of corruption involving stock trading while in Congress and of using his position to line his own pockets. Bresnahan’s campaign fired back in a statement calling Cognetti “as corrupt as they come.”
The stock-trading controversy has dogged Bresnahan, who campaigned on and supports banning congressional stock trading, since an April 2025 New York Times report identified him as “one of the most active stock traders in the freshman class.” He and his spokespeople have repeatedly …