{"id":51483,"date":"2025-09-06T12:44:49","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T16:44:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=51483"},"modified":"2025-09-06T12:46:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T16:46:06","slug":"jet-alum-paige-cognetti-announces-her-campaign-for-congress-in-pennsylvania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2025\/09\/06\/jet-alum-paige-cognetti-announces-her-campaign-for-congress-in-pennsylvania\/","title":{"rendered":"JET alum Paige Cognetti announces her campaign for Congress in Pennsylvania"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Post by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/stevenwaseda\/\">Steven Horowitz<\/a>\u00a0(Aichi-ken, Kariya-shi, 1992-94)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"681\" src=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image-1024x681.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-51484\" style=\"width:400px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image-1024x681.png 1024w, https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image-768x511.png 768w, https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>JET alum Paige Cognetti<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-paragraph\">JET alum <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Paige_Cognetti\" title=\"\">Paige Cognetti<\/a><\/strong>, who has served as the Mayor of Scranton, Pennsylvania since 2019, recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paigeforscranton.com\" title=\"\">announced her campaign<\/a> to run for Pennsylvania&#8217;s 8th congressional district in 2026. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Her announcement follows <a href=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2025\/08\/12\/jet-alum-taylor-wettach-is-running-for-congress-in-iowa\/\" title=\"\">JET alum <strong>Taylor Wettach&#8217;s<\/strong> recent announcement to run for Congress in Iowa<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For more information about her, check out these links:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>Times Leader<\/em>, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesleader.com\/news\/1715207\/scranton-mayor-cognetti-announces-campaign-for-congress-to-clean-up-corruption\" title=\"\">Scranton Mayor Cognetti announces campaign for Congress to \u2018clean up corruption<\/a>\u2019&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Politico:<\/em> &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/09\/02\/paige-cognetti-scranton-mayor-rob-bresnahan-congress-race-00539390\" title=\"\">Scranton mayor launches House campaign, goes after Rob Bresnahan\u2019s stock trades<\/a>&#8220;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Wikipedia:<\/em> &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Paige_Cognetti\" title=\"\">Paige Cognetti<\/a>&#8220;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Campaign page: &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.paigeforscranton.com\" title=\"\">Paige for Scranton<\/a>&#8220;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">***************************<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A few more JET alums in politics!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>JET alum&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/legislature.ky.gov\/Legislators\/Pages\/Legislator-Profile.aspx?DistrictNumber=88\">Vanessa Grossl<\/a><\/strong>,&nbsp;who was elected to the Kentucky House of Representatives (District 88) in 2025 and attended the National Association of Japan America Societies (NAJAS) which was recently hosted in Lexington, KY. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>JETAA Northern California\u2019s&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/ellenkamei\/\">Ellen Kamei,<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;who is the current mayor of Mountain View, CA;&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/library\/profiles\/nishioka-nadine\/\">JETAA Hawaii\u2019s Nadine Nishioka who ran for State Representative in 2004<\/a>; <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Brooklyn\u2019s own&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Anthony_Bianchi\">Anthony Bianchi<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;(Aichi-ken, 1987-89) who has served as a City Councilman in Aichi-ken, Inuyama-shi for many years and made headlines as the first North American to hold elected office in Japan.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Virginia Second District Representative (and JET alum)&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/kiggans.house.gov\/posts\/kiggans-works-to-expand-language-education-for-american-children\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Jen Kiggans<\/strong><\/a>, who recently spoke about her formative time on JET during a Virginia reception held at the Japanese Ambassador\u2019s Residence.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Nashville District 17 Council Member&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nashville.gov\/departments\/council\/people\/terry-vo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Terry Vo<\/strong><\/a>, who&nbsp;has generously volunteered for a JETAADC career panel in the past in addition to previously serving as an officer for Music City JETAA.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>JET alum&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.littletonco.gov\/Government\/Littleton-Leadership\/City-Council-Members\/Mayor-Kyle-Schlachter\">Kyle Schlachter<\/a><\/strong> (Kyoto) is the mayor of Littleton, Colorado (incidentally, where US JETAA Executive Director <strong>Jessyca Livingston<\/strong> also lives!)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Ganbatte Paige-san!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image-2-1024x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-51486\" style=\"width:358px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image-2-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image-2-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image-2-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image-2-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image-2-1536x1536.png 1536w, https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image-2.png 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>If I missed any other JET alums in politics of note, feel free to email me at stevenwaseda [at] jetwit dot com!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Post by\u00a0Steven Horowitz\u00a0(Aichi-ken, Kariya-shi, 1992-94) JET alum Paige Cognetti, who has served as the Mayor of Scranton, Pennsylvania since 2019, recently announced her campaign to run for Pennsylvania&#8217;s 8th congressional district in 2026. 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