Paige Cognetti
Background
- Mayor of Scranton since January 2020, the first woman to hold the office.
- First elected in 2019 as an independent. Re-elected as a Democrat in 2021 with 72.5 per cent of the vote, and in 2025 with 57 per cent in a four-way race.
- Her campaign says she worked for the Pennsylvania Auditor General and served on the Scranton School Board.
What they say they want to do
- A ban on stock trading by members of Congress.
- No corporate PAC money for her campaign, and a law banning corporate PAC donations to federal campaigns.
- No pay for Congress until a budget passes, an independent audit of every federal agency, and 18-year term limits for Congress and the Supreme Court.
- Stronger unions, paid family leave, affordable child care, and capped credit card fees.
- Data centers kept away from homes, schools and parks, with no tax breaks, their own power supply and local union labor.
What the official record shows
- Re-elected mayor of Scranton with 9,851 votes, 72.5 per cent.
- Scranton left Act 47, the state's program for financially distressed cities, about 30 years after entering it.
- S&P raised Scranton's credit rating to investment grade, BBB-.
- Re-elected mayor with 9,745 votes, 57 per cent, against three opponents.
- S&P raised Scranton's rating to A-, with a stable outlook.
Campaign money from other committees, by type
| Transfers and contributions from joint fundraising committees 7 committees | $270,100 |
|---|---|
| Leadership PACs 40 committees | $139,000 |
| PAC - Qualified 27 committees | $103,050 |
| Hybrid PAC (with Non-Contribution Account) - Qualified 13 committees | $70,500 |
| Labor Organization PACs 9 committees | $45,000 |
| House 18 committees | $40,000 |
| Membership Organization PACs 5 committees | $19,200 |
| Party committees 1 committee | $6,728 |
| Hybrid PAC (with Non-Contribution Account) - Nonqualified 4 committees | $6,100 |
| Committees the FEC records no type for 8 committees | $5,249 |
| Corporation PACs 1 committee | $1,000 |
| PAC - Nonqualified 1 committee | $500 |
Source: Federal Election Commission
Money from committees in the 2025-2026 filings through June 30, 2026: lines 11B (party committees), 11C (other political committees) and 12 (transfers from joint fundraising committees), grouped by the FEC's record of each committee. Each line adds up to the campaign's filed total. The rows sum to 706,427.17 dollars, part of what the campaign raised, not all of it. Donations people made through ActBlue or WinRed are individual contributions and are not in this table. The one corporation PAC row is a law firm's PAC; see her corporate PAC card.