Pennsylvania Mayor Running for House on Record of ‘Cutting Waste’ Spent $75K on ‘Equity Plan’ That Called To Put DEI at ‘Core of Every Decision’

Pennsylvania Mayor Running for House on Record of ‘Cutting Waste’ Spent $75K on ‘Equity Plan’ That Called To Put DEI at ‘Core of Every Decision’

Pennsylvania Democrat Paige Cognetti is running for Congress on her record of "cutting waste" as mayor of Scranton, Pa. Omitted from her pitch to voters is a $75,000 "equity" plan she commissioned that called to place DEI "at the core of every decision" in city government. One year after Cognetti became mayor, in 2021, her administration issued a "request for proposals" for a "City of Scranton Equity Plan," records show. The request noted that t…