Paige Cognetti | |
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36th Mayor of Scranton, Pennsylvania | |
Assumed office January 6, 2020 | |
Preceded by | Wayne Evans (acting) |
Personal details | |
Born | Eugene,Oregon,US |
Political party | Democratic |
Other political affiliations | Independent (2019) |
Spouse | Ryan Cognetti [1] |
Children | 2 [2] |
Education | University of Oregon (BA) Harvard University (MBA) |
Paige Gebhardt Cognetti is an American politician serving as the 36th mayor of Scranton,Pennsylvania. She is the first woman to be mayor of the city and won her seat in a special election. [3] [4] A member of the Democratic Party,she ran her first Scranton mayoral campaign as an Independent.
Cognetti was born in Eugene,Oregon. She graduated summa cum laude from the Robert D. Clark Honors College at the University of Oregon with a BA in English Literature and Romance Languages,and holds an MBA from the Harvard Business School. She started her career as an English teacher in Japan;and was a fundraiser for the Clinton and Obama 2008 campaigns and later served as an advisor at the U.S. Treasury Department. [5] [6]
Cognetti was appointed to the Scranton School Board in 2017, [7] but later resigned in December 2018 to become a special assistant to Pennsylvania's then state auditor,Eugene DePasquale. [8] She has run on reform and pragmatism platforms;on the school board,she criticized Scranton's no-bid school bus contracts and unapproved payments to contractors. [9] For her mayoral bid,she focused on investments and budgets for local businesses,education,and infrastructure. [10] In 2024,President Joe Biden appointed Cognetti to the United States Trade Representative's Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations. [11]
In 2019,Cognetti ran in the Scranton mayoral special to finish the term of former Scranton mayor Bill Courtright,who pleaded guilty to corruption charges in July of that year. [12] Cognetti,previously a life long Democrat,ran as an independent after she deemed the closed caucus system of nomination used by the local Democratic Party as not in favor of the people. Cognetti won the special election with 36% of the vote. [4]
Cognetti ran for election to a full term in 2021 as a Democrat and won in a landslide. [1]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Independent | Paige Cognetti | 5,849 | 36.52% | |
Independent | Kyle Donahue | 3,588 | 22.4% | |
Democratic | Chris Cullen | 2,567 | 16.03% | |
Republican | Charlie Spano | 2,468 | 15.41% | |
Independent | Giovanni Piccolino | 699 | 4.36% | |
Independent | Gary St. Fleur | 384 | 2.4% | |
Independent | John Goshleski | 76 | 0.47% | |
Write-in | 387 | 2.42% | ||
Total votes | 16,018 | 100% |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Paige Cognetti (incumbent) | 7,870 | 71.36% | |
Democratic | John Murray | 3,119 | 28.28% | |
Write-in | 39 | 0.35% | ||
Total votes | 11,028 | 100% |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Paige Cognetti (incumbent) | 9,851 | 72.51% | |
Republican | Darwin Lee Shaw II | 3,175 | 23.37% | |
Write-in | 79 | 0.58% | ||
Total votes | 13,585 | 100% |
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