PA-08: Midterm challenger goes after GOP congressman's stock buying scandals
Democrats are poised to use US Rep. Rob Bresnahan’s stock trading record and scandals involving his personal wealth against him now that Scranton Mayor Paige Cognetti officially launched her bid to unseat the freshman congressman in next year’s midterm elections.
“Congressman Rob Bresnahan lied when he promised he would ban congressional stock trading, and he lied when he said he would protect access to health care,” Cognetti said in a statement. “What’s even worse is that Bresnahan is profiting off our pain, playing the stock market while voting to screw us over in Washington.”
In her launch video, Cognetti went on the offensive by picturing Bresnahan as a spoiled, rich kid playing with fake money at the kitchen table.
“ Rob was handed the keys to a family fortune at 19,” Cognetti said in her campaign video. “Workers here built that company. Rob sold it to foreign private equity. Rob ran for Congress on a promise to ban stock trades. This year, he’s already made 600 trades.”
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